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Important Notice about Instructional Wikis

Wikis will be made available for instructors who wish to use them as a tool for their courses.  By default, any wiki spaces created for use with students in a course will be created so that the spaces is private and can only be accessed by the instructor, Teaching Assistants or students enrolled in the course(s).  Instructional wikis will be set to expire at the end of each semester.

If an instructor wishes to use re-use content from a UAlbany-hosted wiki space developed previously, or wishes to continue development from semester to semester, permission of students who have contributed to the wiki must be secured.  Each student must submit the signed and notarized Student Consent Form To Release Information before the space can be made available.

The content of any student who does not complete the form or who declines to have their content reused must be deleted before the space can be released.  The notarized form must be retained by the academic department and the instructor for future reference. 

For more information about the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and this consent requirement visit: http:/www.albany.edu/ir/rtk