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Generate consent links

This article explains how to generate and track student consent for ValidBound product-improvement / R&D use of deidentified evaluation content. It applies to instructors.

Instructional storage of evaluations for your course does not wait on this consent. Affirmative consent (18+) is required before ValidBound includes a student’s materials in LLM training or R&D exports.

  1. Go to Settings → General → Consent Management.
  2. Select your course from the course filter.
  3. Select Generate Consent Link for the course (if you have not already).
  4. Select Email next to a student to send that student a consent request, or use the bulk email action to notify multiple students at once.

Each student receives an email with a personal link to the consent form (from your email client via mailto, or from SpeechGradebook server SMTP when configured). Students complete the form in their browser — they do not sign in to SpeechGradebook. Status updates automatically in the consent table when they respond.

Make sure each student on your roster has a correct email address before sending requests. See Manage rosters.

  • Evaluations are stored for instructional use when the course and student enrollment can be resolved.
  • Decline, under-18, or no response: instructional storage and instructor/admin export still apply; ValidBound excludes those records from LLM/R&D exports.
  • Temporary local-only storage may still occur if enrollment cannot yet be linked; those evaluations sync when resolvable.

See Consent and data storage for the full model.

Next: Student consent overview