Don't go 'Along' with corporate schemes to gather up student data.

Teachers are also encouraged to use Along's Student Dashboard to keep track of students' responses or, if needed, to send them a "reminder" that they should respond (Gradient Learning, 2021a). Don't go "Along" with corporate schemes to gather up student data But, in fact, the Privacy Policy and the User Agreement define these terms in very limited and specific ways that require some explanation: "Student data … does not include information that has been anonymized, De-Identified Data, or anonymous usage data regarding a student's use of the Services" (Gradient Learning, 2021d, section 1.1). If a student or a school asks that a student account be closed and their data destroyed, the contract says that Gradient will dispose of the data by shredding all paper records, erasing digital records from its system, and/or "modifying the Personally Identifiable Information contained in Student Data and Student Records to make it unreadable, indecipherable or de-identified" (Gradient Learning 2021d, section 4.6). [Extracted from the article]