| Age Restrictions | Learningteacher | 8/20/09 7:10 PM | We currently have Google Apps Education in our school. Our teachers in the elementary and middle school have expressed a great interest in using Google Docs in the classroom. I read on the web that there is a age restriction of 13. Is there anything |
| Re: Age Restrictions | Advisor Dana | 8/21/09 1:03 PM | Hi there, If you are using Google Docs within Google Apps Education Edition for your school domain, your school assumes the responsibility for complying with COPPA and the information that students submit. When offering online services to children un |
| Re: Age Restrictions | Learningteacher | 8/26/09 11:07 PM | Thank you... So based on your response... As long as we obtain parental consent ( permission slips), we are ok to use Google Docs with our k-5 students........ We basically want to use it for collaborative writing and science data collection.... Than |
| Re: Age Restrictions | Advisor Dana | 8/27/09 9:43 AM | Hi there, If you are referring to Google Docs within the Google Apps Education Edition Suite (i.e. http://docs.google.com/a/yourschool.org), then yes, as long as comply with COPPA which requires parental consent. Cheers,Dana |
| Re: Age Restrictions | ClassroomTeacher | 9/6/09 4:21 PM | Hello, As a seventh grade teacher in a public school district, is it possible for me to use Google Docs via my own permission slip coupled with the parental consent of the district's online policy? |
| Re: Age Restrictions | ldelabruere | 9/15/09 7:27 PM | We have been using Google Apps with our 7-8 grade students as a "digital locker" for 2 years. The school does not "include any personally identifiable information in the students First Name and Last Name. We use to use their locker number as a st |
| Re: Age Restrictions | (unknown) | 2/2/10 5:21 AM | This replay is in reference to using Google.docs with middle school students. Once the school has gone through the process of complying with COPPA and getting parent pemission, how do we notify Google? Do we need to check a certain box when creating |
| Re: Age Restrictions | kgerard | 2/9/10 6:55 AM | I can't use GoogleApps for our domain because we don't manage our own domain (we use Echalk), so for the last few years (since GoogleDocs was Writely) I've been having my 4th and 5th graders set up regular GoogleDocs accounts with their school email |
| Re: Age Restrictions | millerj.surpise | 2/11/10 3:56 AM | According to COPPA, the LEA can give access to students under 13 years old, without parental consent. The school/teacher/district can issue accounts at anytime and still be compliant with COPPA. From the FTC website on Coppa: http://www.ftc.gov/priva |
| Re: Age Restrictions | MisterL | 5/4/10 9:22 AM | We are a totally online school. We want to use Google Apps for all of our students, k through 12. More specifically, we are moving to Google Apps to give them email accounts. We use our own domain and will use Postini Services as well. We do not as |
| Re: Age Restrictions | bkywlkr | 6/15/10 7:48 AM | If we are a k-12 educational organization, is the parental consent for the collecting of personal information on our end for account provisioning or on Google's end? |
| Re: Age Restrictions | tsummerville | 7/13/10 9:50 AM | I am setting up a separate domain for my middle school students using Google Apps Education Edition. Does anyone have a sample Parental Consent Form that you don't mind sharing? |
| Re: Age Restrictions | Shai Gluskin | 10/4/10 6:35 AM | Google Employee Dina, above, says that the school can take charge of COPPA compliance without need for specific parental approval for Google Apps. Dina or someone else, can you explain what is supposed to happen a child 13 or under first logs in and |
| Re: Age Restrictions | Mr Allen | 12/5/10 5:14 AM | Idelabruere, I've tried to follow the link you provided to see the Rights and Responsibilities Form you mention, but can't get it using the link you gave. Could you check that the document is still there and that it is available for public viewing? |
| Re: Age Restrictions | dmpellow | 2/28/11 10:04 AM | COPPA governs "operators" of websites operated for commercial purposes. It does not apply to nonprofit organizations that are not subject to Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. Has anyone been shown a legal interpretation that says school |
| Re: Age Restrictions | Mark Kelly | 8/17/11 9:41 PM | And what is the answer for Australian schools which do not have things like COPPA? |
| Re: Age Restrictions | Sm06 | 2/28/12 9:26 PM | Hi, just wondering if you've had any response about this for Australian schools? We are K12 and would like to use Google Docs. Thanks. |