CCE CCE Data Privacy, Accessibility & Compliance 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: When a Canvas instructor enables anonymous grading, what privacy benefit does it provide?
- It hides assignment content from students until grading is complete
- It prevents grader bias by concealing student names during the grading process (Correct answer)
- It encrypts all submission files automatically
- It blocks students from seeing each other's grades
Correct answer: It prevents grader bias by concealing student names during the grading process
Anonymous grading masks student names in SpeedGrader so instructors evaluate work on merit alone, reducing implicit bias.
Question 2: Which Canvas setting helps ensure that sensitive course content is not visible to unenrolled users?
- Setting course visibility to 'Institution' or 'Course' only (Correct answer)
- Publishing all modules at once
- Enabling public course URLs
- Using the student view to preview content
Correct answer: Setting course visibility to 'Institution' or 'Course' only
Restricting course visibility to Institution or Course-level ensures only enrolled or authenticated users can access materials, protecting student and instructor data.
Question 3: A Canvas admin receives a request to delete a student's personally identifiable data. Which regulation most directly governs this right in the U.S. K–12 context?
- GDPR
- FERPA and applicable state student data privacy laws (Correct answer)
- HIPAA
- PCI DSS
Correct answer: FERPA and applicable state student data privacy laws
In U.S. K–12 settings, FERPA along with state student data privacy statutes governs rights around accessing, correcting, and deleting student records.
Question 4: What is the purpose of a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) between a school district and Canvas (Instructure)?
- It sets grading standards for all courses on the platform
- It defines how student data is collected, stored, and protected by the vendor (Correct answer)
- It grants Instructure rights to sell student data for research
- It automates FERPA compliance reporting
Correct answer: It defines how student data is collected, stored, and protected by the vendor
A DPA establishes the legal obligations Instructure has in handling student data, ensuring compliance with FERPA and state privacy laws.
Question 5: How should instructors handle a Canvas assignment that requires students to share personal information in a discussion?
- Post the discussion publicly to maximize peer learning
- Ensure the discussion is restricted to course members only and inform students of data use (Correct answer)
- Require students to use their full legal name and photo
- Archive all posts to a public external site
Correct answer: Ensure the discussion is restricted to course members only and inform students of data use
Instructors must limit access to sensitive student posts within the course and be transparent about how shared information will be used, per FERPA and ethical best practices.
Question 6: Which Canvas feature allows instructors to create accommodation-based extended time on quizzes for students with disabilities?
- Quiz statistics
- Moderate This Quiz / Extra Time per student (Correct answer)
- SpeedGrader rubric
- Peer review assignment
Correct answer: Moderate This Quiz / Extra Time per student
The 'Moderate This Quiz' feature lets instructors grant individual students extra time or extra attempts to meet disability accommodation requirements.
CCE CCE Data Privacy, Accessibility & Compliance 2
When a Canvas instructor enables anonymous grading, what privacy benefit does it provide?