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To ensure compliance with FERPA in circumstances of sections merged by the instructor-of-record, the following Brightspace course features/settings must be used:
Discussion Topic Settings
In an Instructor-merged course, Instructors must restrict each Discussion Topic to a single section of the course. Otherwise, students enrolled in different sections could become aware of each other’s enrollment status by seeing each other's discussion posts. To set this restriction while creating your Discussion Topics:
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