Pass lists?

Powerhouse

Kavrocks wrote: »

The passlist for my class has 11 people on it.

I can tell you the name of every person on it and their position on it without anybody in my class telling me their position or their student number.

I can also tell you the names of the people who are not on the passlist.

Saying confidentiality is not being compromised is incorrect. Anytime results for my class are published publicly or via the class email list with student numbers I can tell you what mark everybody received.

I should point out that I am in favour of the passlists being published for my own reasons.

I think this says it all really. It is conconceivable that this practice can occur year in year out in a class and people do not get to have at least some knowledge of who is whom.

I am a bit further along the cycle of life than a current DCU student and perhaps more aware of confidentiality of information and the reasonable entitlement and expectation of that in most circumstances.

Powerhouse

Cardor wrote: »

confidentiality is not being compromised

Of course it is. The very act of putting information into the public domain compromises confidentiality by definition.

The possibility of that 99.9% of students peruse the passlists in a daze and with no knowledge of any other student number does not change that.

Confidentiality is either absolute or doesn't exist at all.

bren2001

Powerhouse wrote: »

Of course it is. The very act of putting information into the public domain compromises confidentiality by definition.

The possibility of that 99.9% of students peruse the passlists in a daze and with no knowledge of any other student number does not change that.

Confidentiality is either absolute or doesn't exist at all.

Confidentiality is being compromised. I have a list of student numbers for people in my class that I easily could of cross referenced to match people up. They may as well put the names on it!

I do like to know where I came in the class and am a fan of passlists granted I think they should be put on your results pages just stating where you came in the class, you should only know where you came and not anybody else (granted I dont care who knows where I came but I imagine some people would)

Noodleworm

Cardor wrote: »

Unless they post their student number's publicly, there is noway of anyone finding out their position in the class.

This is entirely false. Anyone with a simple and basic knowledge of DCU's LDAP system can easily find out which Student Number belongs to which student.
It's not that difficult.