Technology
Designing Privacy-Preserving Educational Data Dashboards for Parental Engagement
Quick fact
Designing a parental dashboard under U.S. law is not just about being educational—it's about staying legal: FERPA and COPPA impose strict limits on what student data can be shown to parents and to whom, meaning a well-intentioned dashboard can become a privacy violation if it reveals unintended details.
Why this is interesting
You want to give parents a clear window into their child's learning, but every data point you show is a piece of a student's private life. How can you open that window without exposing the whole room?