partial credit

Student records

FERPA compliant

Homework, feedback and grades are education records. Partial Credit works for your institution as a school official under FERPA. Here is each requirement, and how we meet it.

FERPA

FERPA compliant

A school official under the FERPA school-official exception, 34 CFR § 99.31(a)(1)(i)(B).

  1. Performs an institutional function

    Partial Credit helps instructors and TAs grade and give feedback on student work, a function your institution would otherwise use its own staff for.

  2. Under your institution’s direct control

    We use education records only to provide the service to your institution, never to develop or market our products. Your course staff decide who has access, and we delete student records when your institution asks.

  3. Limits on use and redisclosure

    We never sell or redisclose personally identifiable information, except as your institution directs, such as returning approved grades to your LMS. Our hosting and AI providers process records only on our behalf, under contract.

  4. No AI training on student work

    Student work and course content are never used to train AI models, ours or our providers’. AI runs only when your course staff start it.

The controls behind it

Built into the product, not left to policy.

  • Only the people in your course. Students see only their own work and published grades. TAs grade; only instructors publish.
  • Only what grading needs. AI suggestions receive the relevant pages, the problem and the rubric, never roster names, emails or student IDs.
  • Deletion you control. Permanently delete any submission. Erasing a whole course is available on request.
  • A trail you can audit. Grading decisions, grade publications and sign-in security events are logged.
  • Encrypted and backed up. Records are encrypted in transit and at rest, with locked backups.

Service providers

For a data agreement or security documentation, email support@partialcredit.app.