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After reading the Faculty Teaching Handbook , please take the quiz that begins below. (Click for the next page after each question.)

Email your score to Academic Affairs as confirmation that you have completed your faculty orientation--there will be a form to use at the end of the quiz. Your Dean will be notified once you complete the quiz. You must score 100% on the quiz, so you can correct answers as needed. You can also print out a certificate if you like.

In addition, if you have not yet taken and passed the Ethics course for the University System of Georgia, please do so.

FERPA Questions

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Which of the following are true about FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)?

a. You cannot email a student his or her grade.
b. You cannot talk to anyone but the student about his or her academic performance, including the parents, without the students' written and specific consent. Even talking to another faculty member in a casual conversation about a student's academic performance is a violation of FERPA.
c. If the student is taking classes as part of his or her high school program (ACCEL) and is not yet 18, then you can talk with his or her parents.
d. You can give a handout of the entire class's grades to students as long as you use their BCID and not their social security numbers as identification.
e. It is a violation of FERPA to leave graded work on the desk so that students can see the grades of other students or to allow students to return graded work to other students.

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