Introduction
Welcome to the Office of the Registrar's web course on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA). FERPA is the federal law that governs the rights of students and institutional responsibilities with respect to student records. This training module is intended to acquaint members of the faculty and staff with the law regarding student records as it affects faculty and staff duties and to clarify some of the questions that arise in connection with access to student records.
This course takes about 20 minutes to complete and has several sets of questions throughout to which you will be prompted to correctly respond to continue.
The Office of the Registrar has additional information on student records available online. This resource may be used in conjunction with this course. Additionally, you may email your questions to registrar.1@nd.edu.
You may begin the course by clicking below.