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James is going to have to answer this one officially since this is a policy question. He'll be along in a couple hours. edublog's privacy is located here: http://edublogs.org/about/privacy/
As my own personal answer, if this is being done as part of a class activity and on other students from that class' blogs, I would think that would be covered by your school's own Internet policies.
If a person leaves a comment on a blog that email address is shared with the blog owner. It isn't listed on the blog page where they left the comment.
The locations the email address is stored is if the comment is moderated then the email address will be included in the comment moderation email and is also listed in Comments inside the blog owner's dashboard.
That is a standard feature of most blogging platforms.
Those teachers who don't want students emails being listed on their own blog will deselect the option for email address must be left.
If it is a concern when commenting on other people's blogs I recommend you consider having a class gmail account that all students use for writing their comments.
You can also use a fake e-mail. I tell my students to put down "student@yahoo.com" as an e-mail if they don't have one. The software doesn't check for an actual e-mail; just if it follows an e-mail pattern.
I was going to suggest the fake email as well although with the "Follow up comments via email" feature, it won't work.
Lauri, using a working email address that's not yours may be considered harassment here in the US. It may be a good idea to use a nonworking email address or domain. Best bet would be to use yahoo.tld instead as the domain. That doesn't resolve.
I don't think the person who actually has the "student@yahoo.com" is too happy with you. :)
Well Dr. Mike, I don't see why the person who has that account (should there be one) would care--nothing comes of it. I don't believe I am using a "follow up comments via email feature" and I don't use the e-mail at all. So while I appreciate the suggestion for a different domain, I don't understand the problem either.
Someone did register "student@yahoo.com". The problem is that you taught students to use an existing account to hide who they are. The specific use you had in mind might not be a problem. Your students have learned to use this and will use it for other accounts that may send out verifying emails. Creating your own class account would be a sure way others would not be hurt by your real need to protect student identities.
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I was under the impression that student email addresses would not appear in their comment profile but they are there. How can I prevent this in order to protect their privacy?