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GDPR: using apps and online services with pupils
If you're using educational apps or other online services with pupils, like assessment platforms or homework portals, make sure you stay compliant with data protection law. Work through these questions before setting up a new app or service to figure out your responsibilities, then see what you need to do next.
Contents
- Would you be the data controller?
- Would use of the service be necessary for educational purposes?
- Steps to follow when setting up a service
- 'Cheat sheet' for data protection officers
- Child protection files: transfer
- Data protection impact assessments
- Data protection impact assessments: template and checklist
- Data protection: latest updates
- Data protection officer: who can it be?
- Data sharing agreements
- DPO's report to governors: template
- DPOs: what your school must do for you
- Email security: sending personal data
- Fingerprint scanning: seeking consent
- Freedom of information: responding to requests Updated
- GDPR: at what age can pupils give consent?
- GDPR audit
- GDPR compliance for visiting staff
- GDPR: contacting parents
- GDPR: ensuring your suppliers are compliant
- GDPR for schools' commercial activities
- GDPR jargon buster
- GDPR: managing your photo archives
- GDPR: most common questions one year on
- GDPR mythbuster
- GDPR: seeking consent for processing personal data
- GDPR: sending out direct marketing
- GDPR: sharing medical information
- GDPR: sharing safeguarding information
- GDPR: template record of processing activities
- Help your staff understand the GDPR: posters and handout
- How to choose which ‘lawful basis’ to use under the GDPR
- How to clean out your data: decision flowchart
- How to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation
- How to respond to subject access requests in the summer holidays
- Information audit: template
- International data transfers under the GDPR
- MATs: getting GDPR-compliant across your trust
- Parents' right to see their child's educational record
- Personal data breach procedure and poster
- Poll results: how is the DPO role taking shape?
- Poll results: who are schools choosing as their data protection officer?
- Pupil records: transferring to other schools or providers
- Recording and managing consent under the GDPR
- Requests for information: guidance and template record
- Requests from parents to see pupils' information: FAQs
- Schools' reporting requirements
- Sending personal data home with pupils
- Sharing data in schools
- 'Special category' data under the GDPR
- Subject access requests: guidance and template forms
- Taking and displaying pupil photos and information
- Taking documents home: securing personal data
- The General Data Protection Regulation explained
- QuickRead: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- The role of the data protection officer (DPO)
- Using personal devices: securing personal data
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