The George Washington University is committed to protecting the confidentiality of student education records, as required by law. The law extends to actions taken by faculty relative to student records, including the posting of grades. Grades are only to be posted with anonymity guaranteed to the student. Posting grades with student names, social security numbers, or any other personally identifiable key is not acceptable. Even the use of a portion of, or variation on, the name or social security number is to be avoided.

If grades are to be posted, it is necessary for the faculty member to develop a key whereby the faculty member and each individual student agree on an artificial identifier for the student. One method to achieve this would be for the faculty member to assign an random number to each student.