Hi Simon, the question is delicate; I know that in UK there is a number of universities using SMC for teaching purposes. As well as in some other countries (William can give details on this, I suppose); as well, some MOOCs probably use SMC. And, finally, Andrew, the original poster, is in Sydney, Australia.
IMHO your university is unclear in its position; first of all, one has to define what "personal information" means. They might be right in saying that an official exam, and its records, cannot be held on overseas computer systems. How about GCE servers located in EU? Is it legal? This way data does not leave the EU (probably, I don't know for sure). In UK surely students can be asked to do coursework (we do not have any official continuous assessments, so I guess quizzes would be just fine, too) on SMC, nobody will blink at it. On the other hand, I cannot copy their academic records and other things like their home addresses, anywhere outside the University, and even so only under a number of conditions. Dima -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
