Confidentiality among students

[MsEdwards]

I am a special education teacher at a high school and have a "caseload" class. I was wondering if there is  way to publish a page without every student seeing other students' names? For example, my caseload is a page. I do not want other students' names being seen due to confidentiality issues and FERPA. I would love to have a way to communicate with parents and students one time instead of multiple for the same occasion. New information is always provided, and I'm hoping there is an option similar to the BCC email option where only one student can see their name in a mass email. 

[greydon · Accepted solution]

Thank you for contacting the Canvas Community. We're sorry to hear you've been experiencing issues with students viewing other students' emails and names. When you send a message to the entire class, they will all  be included on the thread. We do  not display their real emails as the inbox is  not like a regular email server, but we will display the names of the students. If you don't want the students seeing anybody else in the course or in a message, you should make sure the "people" tab is hidden in the class. Additionally, you need to check "Send an individual message to each recipient" when sending the message. This will include the  messages  to be between you  and individual students  and not the entire class in one. Hopefully this helps!

[SusanNiemeyer]

Unfortunately, Pages and Modules can be viewed by every student in the course. You can't make them "private." I wish that we could, but we can't.

You can set up an Assignment that is only assigned to one student in the class. The other students won't see it. However, that option doesn't work with Pages.