Usage data of Moodle

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Dear City University London,

Can you please provide me with information held regarding the sharing by City University with other organisations (public bodies or private organisations) of data on the use of Moodle, over the current and previous academic years.

Please include any protocol or similar information held documenting what information about the use of Moodle is shared and the frequency of the sharing.

Please also include information held about the number of undergraduates students, graduate students and PhD students for whom their use of Moodle has been shared, per academic year, per external organisation.

Yours faithfully,

David Mery

FOI, City, University of London

Dear David Mery,

Thank you for your request for information (see below) received on 07/04/2014.

Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and will be answered within twenty working days.

Please contact me if you have any queries, quoting reference number 2014/072.

Yours sincerely,
Caroline Llewellyn
Information Compliance Officer
City University London
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Dear David Mery,

Please find attached the response to your FOI request.

Yours sincerely,
Caroline Llewellyn
Information Compliance Officer
City University London
Northampton Square
EC1V 0HB

t: +44 (0)20 7040 4000
e: [City, University of London request email]
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Dear Ms Llewellyn,

Thank you for your response, however under your s16 duty of assistance can you please confirm whether the implication that you share data with external organisations occasionally (i.e., 'not routinely') is correct and if so why no information about these occasions is included in your response?

Yours sincerely,

David Mery

Dear City University London,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of City University London's handling of my FOI request 'Usage data of Moodle'.

The response appears to imply that City University London has shared data with external organisations occasionally (i.e., 'not routinely') during the period for which data is requested (' the current and previous academic years'). This is at best ambiguous. To clarify the situation I asked for assistance on 2014-05-01 which has to be provided as part of the s16 duty of assistance, however no assistance was provided nor even an acknowledgement.

The request is not limited to 'routine' exchange but about 'the sharing by City University with other organisations (public bodies or private organisations) of data on the use of Moodle' whether routine or not. Assuming the implication of the response is correct, i.e., that occasional data sharing about the use of Moodle did occur, by not having provided the requested information you are in breach of sections 1(1)(b) and 10(1) of the FoIA.

Let me remind you that I requested 'information held regarding the sharing by City University with other organisations (public bodies or private organisations) of data on the use of Moodle, over the current and previous academic years [including data shared occasionally].' And to 'include any protocol or similar information held documenting what information about the use of Moodle is shared and the frequency of the sharing.' Even non routine data sharing has a frequency, i.e., how many times in each of the two academic year for which the data was requested. And I also asked to 'include information held about the number of undergraduates students, graduate students and PhD students for whom their use of Moodle has been shared, per academic year, per external organisation.'

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/u...

I am looking forward to eventually receiving the requested held data and an explanation of why you are in breach of the Act.

Yours faithfully,

David Mery

FOI, City, University of London

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Dear David Mery,

Please find attached the response to your FOI request.

Yours sincerely,
Caroline Llewellyn
Information Compliance Officer
City University London
Northampton Square
EC1V 0HB

t: +44 (0)20 7040 4000
e: [City, University of London request email]
w: www.city.ac.uk

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Dear Ms Llewellyn,

Thank you for your eventual assistance and clarification.

Yours sincerely,

David Mery