Your data in this app
MK EVPP is a course tool your instructor built and runs for GMU Korea's EVPP courses. It works like a gradebook and an attendance sheet do: it keeps your coursework and a record of your progress through each lecture, so you and your instructor can see how the semester is going. This page lays out exactly what that means. Last updated 24 July 2026.
Canvas is your official grade
Scores here show how the week's checkpoints went — useful for both of you, but not your grade. Your grade of record lives in Canvas, and your instructor enters it there; nothing this app calculates posts to Canvas on its own. So if a number here looks off, your grade is unaffected. Do mention it, though — it may just mean there's a bug worth fixing.
What it keeps
| Who you are | Your student ID, and your name and Canvas user id from the course roster. Your password is stored hashed, so nobody — your instructor included — can read it. An email address only if you gave one. |
| Your coursework | Each checkpoint answer you submit, the score it earned, and when. Most checkpoints give you three tries and keep your best one, so trying again can only help; a poll records one response, because it has no right answer. Every attempt is kept, not just the one that counts. |
| Your progress through a lecture | Time spent with the lecture open, how far you've got in the video or the deck, how long each slide was up, playback speed, and basic events like play and pause. This is what lets you pick up where you left off, and it shows your instructor which parts of a lecture the class found hard — which is usually where the next Wednesday session starts. |
| A few numbers per attempt | How long you took to answer, how many characters were pasted, how many keys were pressed, how many times the window lost focus. These are counts, not contents — the app never stores what was typed or pasted. They're a rough signal for your instructor, never a conclusion on their own. |
What it doesn't do
Some things are worth stating plainly, because online course tools vary a lot in this respect and you shouldn't have to guess:
- • It uses no camera, microphone, or screen recording — there's no proctoring here.
- • It stores no clipboard or keystroke contents, only the counts described above.
- • It collects no location, no device fingerprinting, and carries no advertising or third-party analytics trackers.
- • It sees only what you do on its own pages, nothing else you browse.
- • Your data isn't sold or shared outside your course.
Who can see it
Your instructor, and teaching assistants for your course where their role allows it. Other students can't see your scores, answers, or progress. Most of the time course staff are looking at the class in aggregate anyway — "most people found checkpoint 3 hard" — which is the main reason the progress data is worth keeping at all.
The app runs on rented servers (Railway), with course media — slides, video, audio — on Cloudflare R2. Student data is deliberately kept out of that media storage: the roster and your work never go there. Both providers host the data on the instructor's behalf for the purpose of running the application and make no other use of it.
How long it's kept
Through the semester and for a while after, for the same reason an instructor keeps a gradebook after a course ends. Once your grade is final you can ask for it to be deleted.
Getting a copy, or having it deleted
Just ask your instructor — in class, in office hours, or by email. You can request a full copy of everything the app holds about you, a correction if something looks wrong, or deletion.
There's no self-service delete button, for the same reason a gradebook doesn't have one — coursework has to stay put while it's being graded. A person handles the request instead.
Where this fits with FERPA
Your coursework here is part of your education record, and this app is set up to handle it the way FERPA expects a course tool to: the record stays with your instructor and the teaching staff for your course, it isn't disclosed elsewhere, and you can see it and ask for corrections. In that sense it's no different from a spreadsheet of quiz scores on an instructor's laptop — it just shows you your own half of it as you go.
This section is here for reference, not because anything unusual is going on. If you'd like to read Mason's full statement of your rights under FERPA, it's at registrar.gmu.edu/students/privacy. Nothing on this page limits them.
Questions
Ask your instructor — in class, in office hours, or by email. If anything here is unclear or you'd like more detail, that's worth saying too.