Camera Recommendations

The following recommendations will cover practices for making and using instructional video and audio recordings with students, along with best practices around recording class sessions and asking students to use a camera during live class sessions. The appendix includes templates you may wish to use.

Instructors sometimes record live class sessions so that students can watch a missed class session or review an earlier session, in order to comply with an authorized DSP&S accommodation, or for the instructor to share with a future class. Depending on who is identifiable in the recording, the recordings may constitute educational records that are protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The following provides various scenarios and approaches to ensure compliance with FERPA when recording live class session.

A flyer containing relevant information on FERPA guidelines

Download an accessible copy of this info-graphic to share.

Additional information about photos, video, and audio recording under FERPA can be found in the US Department of Education FAQs on Photos and Videos under FERPA. California Chancellor’s Office Legal Opinion 2012-12 was sent out on October 19th to clarify the requirement of camera use.

This document refers to live class sessions as a broad term recognizing both methods asynchronous (no set required meeting times) or synchronous (required/regular set meeting times) using multiple online conferencing platforms such as ConferZoom, Pronto, and Microsoft Teams.

Contact your campus DSP&S Department for any specific student accommodation requests or support

Netiquette

Netiquette is the combination of the words Internet and etiquette that refers to the customary code of polite behavior in online settings such as discussion boards, emails, chat messages, and synchronous class meetings.
The Netiquette guidelines demonstrate proper online behavior are to help ensure success in your courses at the San Diego Community College District. Just as in a campus-based classroom, there is appropriate conduct for an online classroom. For example, netiquette dictates that using all capital letters in an email is like shouting.

A brief overview of some of the policies that make up the netiquette guidelines.

Copyright

Guidelines for the use of copyrighted materials were developed by a District- wide Copyright Guidelines Committee. For faculty, the bargaining agreement states that, “The copyrights to works created by faculty members will be owned by them, even if those works (e.g., class notes recorded by students, syllabi, lectures, student exercises, multimedia programs, and tests) are created in connection with courses they teach, or other duties they perform as faculty members, while they are employed by the District and in connection with their employment, unless the work is created under the circumstances described in paragraph 26.4.2.1”

SDCCD Copyright Information