Ensuring section anonymity

jwillin
Community Contributor

We have a course in which it is very important that students not be able to see students in other sections of the course. All students are enrolled with the 'section only' access. As a precaution, I tried to figure out ways that teachers or students could inadvertently reveal themselves to students in other sections. I came up with one scenario in which they could, and wanted to know if anyone is aware of any others?

If a teacher posts an announcement that is assigned to all sections and the option to allow students to reply is enabled, and a student replies, then that student's reply is visible to all students regardless of section. This would also apply to discussions. I advised the instructors to be sure that the 'reply' option is not enabled on 'all section' announcements and that they be intentional in their assigning of discussion boards.

Are you aware of any other scenarios that could compromise section anonymity?

Thank you,

John Willingham