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Teacher Pay Teacher and SeeSaw permissions

ctegeler — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:29:28 GMT

Pardon the literal screenshots from someone on my staff 🙂

These seem like aggressive permissions to be asked from Teacher Pay Teacher and SeeSaw. Does anyone have any insight? Should I advise this teacher to not allow this?

She found a workaround for SeeSaw, but for TPT, I think she would need to allow it to get the resources she purchased.

Re: Teacher Pay Teacher and SeeSaw permissions

kaned — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:46:38 GMT

My understanding is that in order to place a file into a google drive, they require read and download access.

I believe this is how Google sets their access levels and does not necessarily reflect the intention of the 3rd party tool.

That being said, we block access to TPT and other sites like them. The potential for those sites to scrape data from end users and collect PII and other information is too high. You grant them access once and they continue to have access until a user intentionally removes it. If TPT (or other) were to be compromised, the impact could be pretty widespread (though likely not as widespread as PowerSchool).

Re: Teacher Pay Teacher and SeeSaw permissions

MarkLoundy — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:42:55 GMT

These appear to be standard access requests for these sorts of accounts. I don’t see anything out of the ordinary about them.