Many states, districts, schools, administrators, and parents are concerned about uncontrolled distribution of PII, its use in marketing schemes, or its potential abuse for hacking and worse. Esri takes pains to treat personal information carefully, inform the broad education community about how to minimize PII, encourage educators to follow practices that minimize use of PII, and encourage mappers to be prudent in the content of their maps. But there are educators who actively promote students developing a “responsible digital footprint”, and there are families who are comfortable letting their children explore and be recognizable, and there are students anxious to claim their work as their own. So Esri does not monitor, censor, mandate, or control how educators and students use PII on ArcGIS Online.
For information about Esri’s broad policies on digital security, including the security of ArcGIS Online, see http://trust.arcgis.com
For information about ArcGIS Online Organizations for K12 schools, including strategies for minimizing the use of PII, see http://esri.box.com/agoorgsforschools especially pp.23-end.
For the HS+MS Competition,
State leaders are encouraged to remind educators and students to make conscious decisions about PII.
Esri does not seek and will not accept PII about any state awardees except for the one HS and one MS nominee for the national level competition. The spreadsheet that states must submit to Esri permits and requires first and last name for only those two awardees. The other awardees will be identified only as “[ST]_[SchoolName]_#.”
Because Esri will require real names for national competition entries, submissions to the school should include an indication of approval by the student’s parent/guardian to use the real name. Submissions from the school to the state should use that choice, regardless of the number of “real” or “generic” names used in the school’s five entries. States may present awards to any number of “real” or “generic” named winners, but a maximum of one HS and one MS may be submitted by a state to the national competition. If no state awardee at HS or MS level uses a “real” name, the state should go ahead and submit the generic names, and accept that there will be no entry for the state in the national competition at that level.
Esri’s results map is expected to include these layers (top to bottom):
* top 1-HS awardee and 1-MS awardee from the nation, as L3 stars, with names[real], schools, and links to maps
* top 1-HS awardee and 1-MS awardee from each state, as L2 stars, with names[real], schools, and links to maps
* other HS and MS awardees from each state, as L1 stars, with names[generic], schools, and links to maps
* dots for each school submitting data to the state, scaled by total entries, with school name and number of HS and MS entries
* participating states, with indication of total number of entries
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