{"id":1446,"date":"2017-01-30T15:49:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T20:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:38","slug":"protection-agreement-piazza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/30\/protection-agreement-piazza\/","title":{"rendered":"U-M updates protection agreement with Piazza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1482\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/piazza-logo.jpeg\" alt=\"Piazza logo, white word on light blue background.\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/piazza-logo.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/piazza-logo-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/>ITS Teaching and Learning, working in conjunction with the U-M Office of the Vice President and General Counsel; the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer; and Procurement Services, has secured a new data protection agreement in December with the online collaboration Q&amp;A platform <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/piazza.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Piazza Technologies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Piazza Q&amp;A, which has been available for instructional use within CTools and Canvas for several years, recently raised concerns with the inclusion of a separate product offering in its terms of service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company was including Piazza Careers, a service marketed to students to provide access to corporate recruiters, as an option in the click-through agreement students complete when signing up for the Piazza Q&amp;A service. While PIazza Q&amp;A is covered by FERPA regulations, Piazza Careers is a service that provides companies access to data students provide within the Piazza Q&amp;A service. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U-M negotiated a signed data protection agreement with Piazza that explicitly secures protection of student data and privacy, and provides assurance that Piazza Q&amp;A can be safely used for instructional use while allowing students the option to opt-in to Piazza\u2019s ancillary services. In addition to the data protection agreement, Piazza agreed to change the terms of service for Piazza Careers to be opt-in (it had been previously opt-out) and to make the sign-up page for Piazza Careers separate from the Piazza Q&amp;A sign-up page. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITS Teaching and Learning, working in conjunction with the U-M Office of the Vice President and General Counsel; the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer; and Procurement Services, has secured a new data protection agreement in December with the online collaboration Q&amp;A platform Piazza Technologies. Piazza Q&amp;A, which has been available for\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/30\/protection-agreement-piazza\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":1482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[206,23,96],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-services","tag-piazza","tag-security","tag-students"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/piazza-logo.jpeg",160,160,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/piazza-logo-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/piazza-logo.jpeg",160,160,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/piazza-logo.jpeg",160,160,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/piazza-logo.jpeg",160,160,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/piazza-logo.jpeg",160,160,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/piazza-logo.jpeg",160,160,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/piazza-logo-160x140.jpeg",160,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/piazza-logo-60x42.jpeg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/piazza-logo.jpeg",160,160,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/piazza-logo.jpeg",160,160,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/piazza-logo.jpeg",160,160,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Daniel Burgess, ITS Teaching and Learning","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/burgessd\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"ITS Teaching and Learning, working in conjunction with the U-M Office of the Vice President and General Counsel; the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer; and Procurement Services, has secured a new data protection agreement in December with the online collaboration Q&amp;A platform Piazza Technologies. 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