Arp Acceptable Use Policy for High School Students

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Arp Acceptable Use Policy for High School Students
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Vocabulary and Basic Explanations
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Vandalism

• Any malicious attempt to harm or destroy
  equipment or data of the district or any other of
  the agencies or other networks that we are
  connected.

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Forgery

• Presenting yourself as another person
• Forgery or attempted forgery of electronic mail
  messages is prohibited. 

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Netiquette

• Pleasant e-mail

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Intellectual Property Rights

• An idea created by someone and the ownership of
  that idea remains with the creator.

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Noncompliance

• A failure to follow the AUP and results in
  termination of network use.

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Revocation of privileges

• The users account will be terminated when there
  is continued illegal use after a warning has been
  issued.

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Liability

• You as a user have a monetary obligation to
  reimburse for harm done to the computer or to the
  network.

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Public domain

• Information that can legally be copied and used
  from the Internet. This information has been
  shared with everyone.

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Filters

• Restricts objectionable sites
• All URLs (Internet sites), EMAIL, and online
  communications are filtered by BESS or Barracuda.
• The district WILL NOT respond to a request from a
  student for unblocked access to an objectionable
  site.
• ONLY faculty members can request that a site be
  unblocked (either permanently or temporarily)

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Filter

• It is NOT the intention of the district to
  restrict students from valuable sites. Teachers
  please plan ahead to contact the system
  administrator about sites that your students
  might require for any online project.
• If you are issued a firewall exemption, each time
  you use it, the system administrator is sent a
  message as to the site, the content, and the time
  spent at that site. Please be aware that online
  shopping for personal items during school hours
  is not appropriate use of the network. Shopping
  may take place after school hours.
• Gambling online is illegal use of the school
  network.

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Logging Program

• A program that tracks all use.
• Electronic mail transmissions (EMAIL) and other
  electronic communications (CHATS), district
  electronic resources (NETWORK FOLDERS) or online
  data used by students and employees are not
  private and may be monitored at any time by
  designated District staff to ensure appropriate
  use.

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Firewall

• A security device that restricts access into a
  network. Firewalls can be configured in many
  different ways but are primarily used to let a
  company's computers go out to the Internet
  without letting people on the Internet come into
  the company computers.

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Internet vs. Intranet

• Internet documents and information are available
  to anyone in the world, unless there is a
  security system. Intranet documents and
  information are available only to computers
  within a specific network. Intranets are closed
  and secure the Internet is open.

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Browser, browsing

• The program that runs on your computer and lets
  you navigate the World Wide Web. Netscape and
  Internet Explorer are the two most common
  browsers. These programs display the files that
  are on web servers.

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Dos and Donts
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The following slides contain information over the
things you can and should do and the things that
you can not and should not do.
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• allowed to utilize the digital or Internet
  resources of the district without signing the AUP
  agreement
• All students will be taught the AUP

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• All students will be monitored during their use
  of these technologies by faculty members

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• A media release form is necessary to publish
  students work.
• Personal information about a student can not be
  published without consent from their
  parent/guardian.

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• You may not use another persons account. You may
  not pretend to be another person.
• Do not attempt to read, delete, copy, or modify
  the electronic mail or data of other system
  users, deliberate interference with the ability
  of other system users to send/receive electronic
  mail is prohibited.

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• It is the teachers responsibility to monitor
  network activity in the classroom.
• It is a Webmasters responsibility to get
  permission for all students work that is
  published.

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• The system may not be used for illegal purposes.
  This includes downloading viruses, games, or
  going to websites that are not school related.
• Do not send messages or access material that
  would be considered objectionable material.(
  abusive, obscene, threatening, harassing, etc.)

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• Do not give out personal information about
  yourself, or anyone else, on the Internet/e-mail.
• Students cannot use outside email resources like
  Yahoo mail or AOL mail because these are not
  under the district filtering system.

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• A password is your personal identification for
  access to the network. It needs to be changed
  every six weeks. You should never give it out to
  anyone.

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ETHICAL USE POLICY

• 8DO NO HARM,
• 8DO GOOD,
• 8PREVENT HARM, and
• 8UNDO HARM.

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Games Not Allowed

• Technology tools are provided by the district for
  appropriate educational objectives (i.e. games
  such as Solitaire, will not be played during
  school hours). Students utilizing technology for
  unauthorized purposes will be restricted from or
  lose privileges to district technologies.

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Chats

• Participating in chat rooms and newsgroups
  accessed on the Internet is only permissible for
  students under the appropriate  supervision of a
  sponsoring teacher. The sponsoring teacher must
  gain written permission for such activities from
  her campus  technology coordinator.

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SPAMMING

• Spamming is illegal. It involves sending email
  to more than just a FEW acquaintances. Research
  the new spam laws. They deal with unsolicited
  email. Spamming is sending out email to folks
  who do not request it. You spam the network when
  you send email to more than one or two of your
  associates.

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Spamming

• Do not send email to large groups like HS
  Faculty, unless it is for educational purposes
• DO NOT FORWARD CHAIN MAIL MESSAGES TO ALL YOUR
  FRIENDS!
• DO NOT download large files like movies, or
  music.
• DO NOT participate in illegal file sharing (MP3)

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NETWORK Netiquette       

• System users are expected to observe the
  following network etiquette
• 1. Be polite messages typed in capital letters
  on the computer are equivalent to shouting and
  are considered rude.
• 2. Use appropriate language swearing, vulgarity,
  lewdness, ethnic or racial slurs, and any other
  inflammatory language are prohibited.
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NETWORK Netiquette       

• 3. Pretending to be someone else when
  sending/receiving messages is inappropriate.
• 4. Transmitting or creating obscene messages or
  pictures is prohibited.
• 5. Using the network in such a way that would
  disrupt the use of the network by other users is
  prohibited.