Every educator develops his or her own course plan to a greater or lesser extent. This may be a PowerPoint presentation, or a complete series of lessons, assignment, activity or workgroup. Whenever personal data comes into play within the developed materials or activities, you must take appropriate measures. On this page, you will find the questions you need to ask in each case.
1. Are you going to develop your own teaching materials or will you use teaching materials from a publisher?
If you are working with a publisher, make sure you have good privacy agreements in place. Your organisation must enter into a data processing agreement with the publisher. If you develop your own teaching materials, you are responsible for the proper handling of personal data.
2. Where will you store the teaching materials you have developed and who has access to them?
Work from 'Privacy by design' and make sure that the data are securely stored in each phase.
1. Can you offer a safe environment online and physically in terms of privacy at any given time?
Examine all steps in the series of lessons before determining how privacy can be ensured in each step. This applies to personal data storage, communication between you and the students and issues such as notes, results and monitoring.
1. Do you use software purchased by the organisation?
If so, a 'data processing agreement' is in place and privacy is guaranteed.
2. Do you also want to use software that is not purchased by the organisation?
Determine whether this software meets the privacy guidelines of your organisation. And enter into a data processing agreement directly or via the organisation.
3. What influence do you have on the privacy settings of the software to be used?
Always set all settings to the most 'privacy-friendly' option.