St. Margaret’s School Technology Code of Conduct
A Contract
A. Privileges
Each member of the St. Margaret’s Community -
students, faculty, staff, parents, and trustees - has the opportunity to access
the St. Margaret’s School network to facilitate
personal growth in technology, information-seeking skills, electronic research
skills, and communication skills.
Each member of the St. Margaret’s Community has
the privilege (upon approval) to access and use the e-mail facility distributed
throughout the campus by the St. Margaret’s network.
Each member of the St. Margaret’s Community has
the privilege (upon approval) to access and retrieve information from the
Internet. This includes access to the World Wide Web and e-mail on the
Internet.
Each member of the St. Margaret’s Community has
the privilege (upon approval) to access newsgroups, listserver
subscriptions and real-time, two-way communication over the Internet.
B. Responsibilities
As a member of the St. Margaret’s Community you
will abide by following expectations:
- You will use the network and
individual computer workstations as an educational resource and take
responsibility for all material sent or received under your user account.
- You will monitor and control
all material sent or received via the Internet accessed under your user
account.
- You will immediately contact
the network administrator when your user account security or integrity has
been compromised.
Personal Safety
- You will not post personal
contact information about yourself or other people. Personal contact
information includes your address, telephone, school address, work
address, etc.
- You will not agree to meet
with someone you have met online without your parent’s
or guardian’s approval.
- You will promptly disclose to
a faculty member any message you receive that is inappropriate or makes
you feel uncomfortable.
Illegal activities
- You will not attempt to gain
unauthorized access to the St. Margaret’s
computer network or to any other computer system through the St. Margaret’s computer network or go beyond your
authorized access. This includes attempting to log in through another person’s account or access another person’s
files. These actions are illegal, even if only for the purposes of
browsing.
- You will not make deliberate
attempts to disrupt the computer system or destroy data by spreading
computer viruses or by any other means. These actions are illegal.
- You will not use the St. Margaret’s computer network to access material that is
profane or obscene, that advocates illegal acts, or that advocates
violence or discrimination towards other people (hate literature). A
special exception may be made for hate literature if the purpose of your
access is to conduct research with approval from your teacher.
- You will not use the St. Margaret’s computer network to participate in the violation
of the Honor Code or a Major School Rule or engage in unlawful conduct
with endangers the health, safety, or reputation of yourself or other
members of the school community.
System Security
- You are responsible for your
own individual account and should take all reasonable precautions to
prevent others from being able to use your account. Under no conditions
should you provide your password to another person.
- You will immediately notify a
faculty member or network administrator if you have identified a possible
security problem.
Inappropriate Language
Restrictions against Inappropriate Language apply to public messages,
private messages, and material posted on Web pages.
- You will not use obscene,
profane, lewd, vulgar, rude, inflammatory, threatening, or disrespectful
language.
- You will not engage in
personal attacks, including prejudicial or discriminatory attacks.
- You will not harass another
person. Harassment is persistently acting in a manner that distresses or
annoys another person. If you are told by another person to stop sending them messages, you must stop.
- You will not knowingly or
recklessly post false or defamatory information about a person or an
organization.
Respect for Privacy
- You will not repost a message
that was sent to you privately without permission of the person who sent
you that message.
- You will not post private
information about another person.
Respecting Resource Limits
- You will remember that the
computers are a shared resource and allow everyone a fair share of
computer time. Do not "hog" the computer for personal use when
there are others waiting to use it for word processing, CD-ROM, or
Internet research for class projects
- You will not download large
files unless absolutely necessary. If necessary, you will download the
file at a time when the system is not being heavily used and immediately
remove the file from the system computer to your personal computer.
- You will not post chain
letters or engage in "spamming". Spamming is sending an annoying
or unnecessary message to a large number of people.
- You will use the printers in
a responsible fashion, printing only what is necessary, avoiding excessive
use of paper, toner, and wear and tear on the printer. Preview material
carefully before printing to avoid having to print multiple copies.
- You will obtain approval
prior to joining any newsgroups or obtaining any list from a newsgroup.
Remember to un-subscribe when you no longer want
or need a newsgroup to avoid cluttering the mail system with unwanted
messages.
Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement
- You will not plagiarize and
will carefully document material taken from the Internet or CD-ROM
sources. These sources should be treated just as any other conventional
printed source and referenced appropriately if used in your written works.
Do not plagiarize these sources. Remember that plagiarism is a violation
of the Honor Code.
- You will respect copyrighted
software and will not load such software on any of the school’s
computers via a network or any other source. No copyrighted software may
be copied and/or removed from the school’s
computers under any circumstances.
By signing this contract, I understand that the network manager may review
all audit trails (computer generated records of your network use) created by
the Novell software or any other audit trail created by user access to the
network. The network manager will be responsible for determining and
investigating inappropriate usage of the network and is responsible for
informing appropriate teachers, students and administrators when appropriate.
Further, I understand that the network manager has the right to review any
information stored on the fileservers without approval or consent of the user. The
network manager does not have the right to review any information stored on an
individually owned computer, (i.e., a personal laptop or a desktop in a dorm
room) unless inappropriate use of the computer and/or network is suspected. The
user will be provided, whenever possible, with an opportunity to be present
with the network manager if a review/audit of an individual computer or storage
device is necessary. Notice of such an audit may be given as shortly as
immediately prior to the audit. No prior approval or consent is needed from the
user before an audit is conducted under circumstances in which inappropriate
use is suspected.
The provisions of the St. Margaret’s Student
Handbook will continue to govern issues of honor and discipline within our community.
As a user of the St. Margaret’s academic computer
network, I hereby agree to comply with the above stated
rules—communicating over the network in a reliable fashion while honoring
all relevant laws and restrictions.
Student Signature
Date
As the parent or legal guardian
of the minor student signing above, I grant permission this student to access
networked computer services such as electronic mail and the Internet. I understand that individuals and families
may be held liable for violations. I
understand that some materials on the Internet may be objectionable, but I
accept responsibility for guidance of Internet use—setting and conveying
standards for this student to follow when selecting, sharing or exploring
information and media.
Parent Signature
Date
Name of Student
Please Print Student’s Full Name Then Sign Below :___________________________________
Student:_______________________________________________
Date:___________________