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Protect the identity of students and effortlessly comply with privacy standards set up by COPPA and FERPA with VIDIZMO education redaction solutions. Educational institutions, school resource officers, and records specialists can redact information without a hitch, letting them respond to public record requests in record-breaking time.
Share knowledge, not private data
Educational institutes house a wealth of knowledge, but some of it can come in the form of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of students which could pose serious consequences if it finds its way into the wrong hands.
Whether it’s school records tracking students’ academic progress or surveillance cameras keeping an eye on them, we understand the unique dynamics of educational data.
That’s why VIDIZMO Redactor empowers schools and educational institutes to seamlessly redact student data from academic reports, student records, payment receipts and more with the help of AI-powered education redaction solutions
Responsible data sharing
Redaction solution for education
- Automatically detect and track students and teachers faces in security camera footage, recorded classes, and events on campus, and redact them seamlessly.
- Custodians can use AI-powered redaction workflows to cut down time to respond to record requests made by parents under FERPA and OPRA.
- Conceal Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in documents like disciplinary records, tuition payment receipts, financial aid documents, scholarship applications, and more.
- Detect and redact spoken PII captured in audio and video such as classroom recordings, recorded conferences and meetings, assessment recordings, and video recordings of faculty events.
- Safely comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Open Public Records Act (OPRA), and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
- Campus security can employ advanced redaction techniques to protect students’ identities in incident videos and images before sharing them with law enforcement or parents.
Key capabilities
Censor PII in audio files
Automatically redact sensitive and private information from lecture recordings, counseling sessions recordings, and audio picked up from school events.Search through records swiftly
Retrieve information for public record requests, regulators, and law enforcement quickly with AI-powered search by tags, spoken content, and more.Give role-based access control to your users
Assign granular user roles and permissions for your compliance officers, record managers, and school administrators each with distinct permissions.Custom redaction rules
Create your own redaction rules and redact information throughout school records and other files.Redact documents and media files in bulk
Bulk redact thousands of files in one go. Hide all sensitive information from educational records and other files without having to manually process them one by one.Audit logs
Maintain accountability for your educational institute in the event of mishaps. Generate precise activity tracking insights of all redaction actions.Use AI-powered redaction
Harness the power of AI to automatically detect and help redact sensitive PII in CCTV footage, recorded classes, and events on campus, and more.Transcription, translation, closed captions
Create 100% automated transcripts in 40+ languages when the audio is unclear and translate into over 50 languages to communicate with classrooms and educators worldwide.Secure automated workflows
Do away with unnecessary strain on your time and resources. Establish always-on automated workflows to securely redact sensitive information.OCR redaction
Automatically recognize text appearing in printed and handwritten school documents, and images using optical character recognition (OCR).Manual redaction
Cater to the specific needs of censoring content for exposure to children with full control over your manual redaction capabilities.Secure platform
Stay safe from data breaches and attacks that leak student data. Ensure your data stays safe with an AES-encrypted, FIPS-compliant platform. Redact anything with VIDIZMO Redactor
Video redaction
Automatically detect and redact faces, persons, license plates, guns, and other sensitive information in videos.Image redaction
Auto redact PII, including faces, persons, license plates, weapons, and much more in images.Audio redaction
Redact audio recordings using AI-generated transcripts or spoken PII redaction to mute or bleep sensitive spoken words.Document redaction
Redact names, SSNs, addresses, emails, phone numbers, PHI, commercial confidential information (CCI), and much more in documentsBulk redaction
Automatically detect and redact sensitive information such as faces, license plates, and other personally identifiable information (PII) across large volumes of content.AI transcription and translation
Use AI-generated transcription and translation in over 40 languages to identify and redact sensitive information within the speech panel to ensure privacy and compliance.OCR redaction
Automatically detect and redact text in scanned documents and images with optical character recognition (OCR) based redaction.Access controls
Implement granular permissions tailored to specific user roles and groups within your organization.Explore resources for education providers
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Educational institutions questions, answered
Why do schools and universities need to redact student records and footage?
Schools and universities need to redact student records and footage to comply with FERPA and protect personally identifiable information before sharing records with parents, attorneys, law enforcement, or media. VIDIZMO Redactor automatically removes faces, names, ID numbers, and other student identifiers from video, audio, and documents.
How does FERPA apply to surveillance video and recorded class footage?
FERPA treats video as an education record when it directly relates to a student and is maintained by the institution. When footage shows multiple students, schools must redact other students' identities before granting access if redaction does not destroy the record's meaning. VIDIZMO Redactor automates this segregation requirement.
What information must be redacted from student records under FERPA?
Under FERPA, schools must redact personally identifiable information including student names, addresses, dates of birth, ID numbers, parent names, biometric data, and any data that could identify a student in combination with other records. VIDIZMO Redactor automatically detects all of these across documents, video, and audio.
How can schools respond to FERPA record requests within the 45-day deadline?
FERPA requires schools to respond to parent or eligible student record requests within 45 days. Manual video redaction frame by frame cannot meet this deadline at scale. VIDIZMO Redactor automates detection and redaction across hours of footage in bulk, helping districts and universities meet the statutory deadline without expanding staff.
Is the redaction permanent and audit-ready for FERPA compliance?
Yes. VIDIZMO Redactor produces permanent, irreversible redactions with detailed audit logs capturing timestamp, user, file, and redaction type for every action. This evidence trail supports FERPA compliance during Department of Education audits and helps schools defend their decisions if a redaction is ever challenged in court.
Can VIDIZMO Redactor handle student videos, audio recordings, and documents?
Yes. VIDIZMO Redactor handles student records across video, audio, and documents in one platform. AI detects and redacts faces in surveillance and classroom footage, names and grades in transcripts and disciplinary documents, and spoken identifiers in counseling recordings, applying consistent FERPA-aligned redaction across every format.
Can VIDIZMO Redactor be deployed on-premises for districts handling sensitive records?
Yes. VIDIZMO Redactor offers on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud deployment for school districts and universities. Institutions handling sensitive student records, Title IX investigation footage, or jurisdictionally restricted data can run the platform inside their own infrastructure, keeping student data within district or university boundaries throughout the redaction workflow.
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