FERPA and the HyFlex Model
HyFlex classes are not FERPA risks on their own, but elements that instructors create to support them might be. That means instructors who offer HyFlex classes have to pay special attention to FERPA.
- Recognizable student information including calling role, showing faces, and including student voices may be shared online and in the physical classroom for the the course and the semester it is associated with and at no other time. That is, if an instructor captures a lecture using in-class cameras and student faces and/or voices are captured along with the lecture, that lecture can be put online in Blackboard or in another FERPA protected place to be used for that course in that semester, but the lecture may not be used in later terms or in other courses in the same term or publicly on the Internet without the express written permission of the students in the video. It is worth taking care not to include recognizable student information in any videos instructors hope to reuse in any capacity.
- Live streaming of in-class lectures must be made available in a responsible way such as through a closed Zoom meeting, and must never be streamed on an open streaming service like Facebook Live or YouTube.