Timeline for Waiver Form for Remote Video Class
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| May 12, 2020 at 3:06 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 8, 2020 at 15:18 | answer | added | Jeff | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 8, 2020 at 15:11 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | Please shorten this giant wall of text. | |
| May 8, 2020 at 13:42 | history | edited | A.Magnus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 8, 2020 at 1:04 | comment | added | Anonymous Physicist | " they have to dressed up appropriately, to remove any offensive artifacts or sensitive personal items that might cause others to feel uncomfortable" totally reasonable requirement "to use only blank wall as backdrop" That is totally unreasonable. Not everyone has a blank wall. Some of your students might be homeless, and many of them have no control over their families' walls. | |
| May 8, 2020 at 1:02 | comment | added | Anonymous Physicist | "my department is still concerned about the liability that might incur since accidentally I might have visual access to my students' personal belongings" It's a very strange law that makes you liable for seeing something someone else voluntarily shows you without your permission. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 21:20 | comment | added | Dan Romik | What makes you think that you have the right to require your students to sign an arbitrary legal contract of your own design as a precondition to attending your class? This is a strange belief. Your waiver idea sounds terrible, sorry. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 20:17 | comment | added | Kimball | Whether or not a lawyer will personally see you, your institution should be able to provide direction into what they view as permissible expectations. If you don't know who else to contact, try starting with your department/unit head, who should be able to at least point you in the right direction. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 18:43 | answer | added | Massimo Ortolano | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 7, 2020 at 17:58 | comment | added | Tom van der Zanden | Keep in mind that not in all jurisdictions such a waiver would be valid. You are essentially saying "sign this waiver or you cannot participate in the lectures", meaning the students cannot realistically refuse to sign. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 17:03 | comment | added | user111388 | It should probably be clearer defined what sensitive personal objects are. Here you could probably have some misunderstandings. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 16:57 | comment | added | LordStryker | I am not a lawyer. However, it seems as though you are clearly stating expectations to what is or is not allowed in the video feed in the syllabus. It would seem unreasonable to hold the instructor for things beyond their control (if someone committed a murder on live webcam, why would you need a wavier that absolves you of this?). The burden of adhering to the rules lies with the student. A waiver, in my personal opinion, should be unnecessary. Simply kick offenders from any video meeting until compliance is obtained. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 16:31 | history | edited | A.Magnus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 7, 2020 at 16:27 | comment | added | A.Magnus | Solar Mike, thanks for your input. But here I am NOT asking if accidental viewing exposes me to legal liability or not, instead I am asking if any of you happen to have a copy of such waiver that I can borrow. Only academia person would have such copy, I don't think I am asking for legal opinion. Thank you again for your input. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 14:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 7, 2020 at 13:43 | comment | added | Solar Mike | I’m voting to close this question because it is possibly better on the Law Stack. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 13:31 | comment | added | A.Magnus | You are correct, I should have contacted the legal department. However, I am such a small potato in this multi-campus community college. I suspect I have to go through layers and layers of bureaucracies before a lawyer has time to see my email, if at all. I am thinking of anyone out there who might have a ready form. Thank you though. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 13:28 | comment | added | A.Magnus | Thanks for the input. As far as recording & broadcasting are concerned, I think I do not have any issue, since I am using two webcams. The first one is for video conferencing between students and me, the other webcam is used for recording and live-streaming to YouTube. As such, the public at large will see and hear only me and my speech, the visual image, likeness and audio of students will not be made public. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 13:20 | comment | added | user111388 | Since you are teaching it now -- what are your expierences with this problem? | |
| May 7, 2020 at 13:14 | comment | added | Buffy | Sorry that I don't have an answer for you, but if any of your students are legal minors then there are laws about what you can record, and perhaps, even broadcast. Parental permission may be required. But you should have a legal department at your institution that can answer this question. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 13:01 | history | asked | A.Magnus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |