Transparency when collecting and using student data

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Last updated 4 February 2021
Last updated 4 February 2021

Tertiary Education Organisations should be clear in their communications when collecting and using information.

Communication about data collection

Organisations should be open when collecting information. Make sure that the person you are collecting data from will not be surprised about how that information is used later on, or whom it will be given to.

Getting informed consent

Consent is difficult for an enrolling student to understand and what real consent looks like is largely dependent on the wording of your Privacy notice. Students are at risk of being involved in learning analytics without their consent, or having given uninformed consent.

Remember that individual people are behind the data, and that all data activities must comply with the ethics policy principles. 

Templates for managing student data

Also see our list of frequently asked questions about data usage that you can adapt for your own organisation's data collection and usage.