FERPA Compliance

FERPA protects the privacy of student education records and gives parents and eligible students rights over those records.

Classroom Pulse is designed for school-managed use. Schools and districts remain in control of the records they place in the service and determine who may access them.

Classroom Pulse is intended to support school official and legitimate educational interest workflows.

Operational expectations

• Institutions decide which users are authorized to access records
• Access should be limited to users with a documented educational or operational need
• Parent communications and exports should be initiated through approved institutional processes
• Schools remain responsible for their own notices, directory information decisions, and disclosure practices

Classroom Pulse is built around privacy-conscious defaults.

Examples include

• No student self-service signups
• Role-based access controls
• Customer-managed record access
• Secure export and reporting workflows
• Centralized communication and documentation for teams

These product controls help institutions apply their own FERPA procedures more consistently.

Parents and eligible students generally have rights to inspect, review, and request amendment of education records through the school or district that controls those records.

Because the institution controls the records, rights requests should normally be directed to the school, district, or program administrator unless Classroom Pulse instructs otherwise as part of a support workflow.

Classroom Pulse can support procurement and compliance review with related documentation, including

• Privacy Policy
• Data Processing Agreement
• Security Practices
• State-specific addenda when separately agreed

Questions about district review packets can be sent to privacy@classroompulse.io or legal@classroompulse.io.