Today I had all my students log in and get started on Unit 2. However, they had to answer how old they were. 2 of the 60 students had blocks that would not let them go further until they put in a parent email. They are 11, but probably half of my class was 11. Anyone know why this happened? And do they have to have parent approval?
Hello @troy,
From what i can recall there was some bill passed not to long ago that prohibited collecting information of children under the age of 12 or 13 though someone would probably have to correct me on that since i assume that the current lesson your on requires data functions of some ability I.E. setKeyValue createRecords etc… i think it was mainly to stop the collection of such individuals who couldn’t comprehend the consent of the data they were sharing or something like that… but since CDO is doing it for education purposes the parent probably has to consent as there guardian to use that type of functionality in the program
this could have possibly happened for 2 reasons
A: the parents email was in most of the students accounts meaning they had consented to there child being allowed to use it
B: some of them lied about the age when signing up for an account to do classwork bypassing the need for a parent email for consent
Hopefully this helps clarify things if this does not adequately satisfy you do consider reaching out to support to resolve this issue
Varrience
Do you have them in a section that you created with a teacher account? If so, that should bypass those restrictions. If you just have them sign in and you don’t have them in a class, it will want their parents to know what they are doing.
If they are in your course and enrolled properly, you may want to reach out to support@code.org to look into it.
Here’s more information on the privacy measures taken by code.org in this regard.
Mike
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