Public and Private Classes

When a teacher creates or publishes a class they are presented with an option to make a class "Visible to the roster only". This option determines whether or not the content in the Pages and Calendar sections of a class is visible to users who are not logged in. If "Visible to the roster only" is selected then users browsing to the page will be presented with a log in prompt instead of the desired page. After logging in the desired page will be visible.

Regardless of if the "Visible to the roster only" option is selected, student data contained within the other tabs such as Assess and Connect is not visible to users who are not signed in. In all cases, only the content relevant to a given user is displayed (e.g. only Joe Student can see Joe Student's homework and grades).

Class Permissions

Inside of a class haiku LMS has four basic levels of access: teacher, student, parent, and guest.

• Teachers control the classroom - from page content to enabling/disabling features for students and parents.
• Students can participate in all basic classroom features that the teacher has enabled, such as posting discussion responses, writing inbox messages, or taking assessments. Of course teachers can turn off certain features in a class as they see fit, like students' ability to send inbox messages to other students or attach files to discussion posts. Students will never see private information about other students (e.g. dropbox submissions, grades, attendance).
  
• Parents can see class content and access features that the teacher has enabled, but cannot interact with or see data that belongs to students in the class that aren't their children (e.g. a parent cannot participate in discussions or send an inbox message to another student). Parents can see some content that is relevant to their student, such as assignments and grades, but they will never see specifics, such as homework submissions or discussion posts.
  
• Guests can only see class content if the "Visible to the roster only" option is not selected. They can see teacher-generated class content (e.g. pages, calendar, announcements) but will never see any student-generated information (e.g. discussion posts, homework handed in to the dropbox) or private student-related data (e.g. grades, attendance).