Acceptable Use Policy�

All Mount Vernon District employees must read and sign acknowledgement provided at the end of this presentation.

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Learning Targets for Session

• Become familiar with the MVSD Acceptable Use Policy
• Understand your responsibilities as a staff member.
• Understand student responsibilities.

MVSD Core Beliefs about Technology Use

The district’s technology will enable educators, students, and staff to communicate, learn, share, collaborate, create, to think, solve problems, manage their work, and to take ownership of their lives.

Acceptable Uses

• Creation of files, projects, videos, web pages and podcasts using network resources for educational and administrative purposes
• Use of network resources, such as email, chat, blogs, wikis, and websites, in a school appropriate manner
• Installation of appropriately licensed and approved software on district technology

Unacceptable Uses

• Transmission of any material in violation of any local, state, or federal law. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted materials not covered by fair use provisions, threatening or obscene material, or material protected by trade secret.

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Unacceptable Uses

• The use of profanity, obscenity, or other language that may be offensive to another user.
• Any form of vandalism, including but not limited to, damaging hardware, computer systems, or networks, and/or disrupting the operation of the network.
• Copying and/or downloading commercial software or other material e.g. music, in violation of federal copyright laws.

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Unacceptable Uses

• Use of the network for financial gain, commercial activity, or illegal activity, e.g. hacking.
• Use of the network for political activity.
• Use of the network to access pornographic or obscene material.
• Creating and/or placing a computer virus on the network.

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Unacceptable Uses

• Accessing another person's individual account without prior permission. The person in whose name an account is issued is responsible at all times for its proper use. Passwords should never be shared with another person and should be changed frequently. Passwords should not be common words or names that can be found in a dictionary.

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Unacceptable Uses

• Posting information or images that could be a form of harassment or could promote a negative culture in the school environment by causing a student to feel uncomfortable or unsafe at school.
• Activity with a malicious intent to disrupt the network
• Installation of unlicensed or unapproved software.

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Unacceptable Uses

• Installation of unapproved technology on the network (i.e. wireless access points, routers or switches not provided or approved by the Computing and Information Services Department)
• By-Passing of District specified filtered Internet websites or using proxy sites to bypass District filtering on computers used by students    

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Copyright & Plagiarism

Acceptable

• Use of copyrighted material with author permission
• Use of copyrighted material that meets the fair use criteria

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Unacceptable

• Using network resources to commit plagiarism.
• Unauthorized use, copying, or forwarding of copyrighted material.
• Unauthorized installation, use, storage, or distribution of copyrighted software.

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Student Safety and Privacy

• Be careful about publishing information that could identify students online.
• Online activities of students will be monitored.
• All students must be provided with instruction on appropriate online behavior and cyberbullying awareness.

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Student Use of Personal Electronic Communication Devices at School

• Students assume responsibility for all lost, damaged, or stolen personal technology devices. Student cell phones shall be turned off during class time unless specifically allowed by the teacher.

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Student Use of Personal Electronic Communication Devices at School

Acceptable

• Personal devices, such as cell phones, handhelds, digital cameras, MP3 players, and laptops may be used for instructional purposes in the classroom at the discretion of the teacher. The same personal devices may be used outside of the classroom at the discretion of the school.
• Use of network resources, such as email, chat, blogs, and Internet websites in a school appropriate manner.

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Student Use of Personal Electronic Communication Devices at School

Unacceptable

• Use of a personal device that violates any of the unacceptable uses for district-owned technology listed above.
• Use of a personal device to gain or give an advantage in a testing situation.
• Use of personal devices during class that are not approved by the school or the individual teacher (e.g. cell phones, MP3 players).
• Downloading and installing district licensed software on personal devices unless specifically allowed by the licensing agreement.

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Guidelines for Staff

Acceptable

Use of the Internet/Intranet is appropriate under all of the following circumstances:

• support of the academic program;
• telecommunications;
• Association and union activities; and reasonable personal use to the extent that such use does not violate any express prohibitions of contracts and agreements and does not interfere with the staff members’ assigned duties and responsibilities.

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Guidelines for Staff

Unacceptable

• Use of the network for financial gain, commercial activity, or illegal activity, e.g. hacking.
• Use of the network for political activity. (Washington RCW 42.17.130 Use of public agency or agency facilities in campaigns
• Use of District resources to contact students for non-educational purposes or any other purpose not in furtherance of the goals of the District.

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Guidelines for Staff

All staff members are encouraged to develop the necessary skills to use the Internet/Intranet effectively and efficiently.

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Guidelines for Staff

• Teachers and other supervising adults will monitor student use, and provide students with instruction on Internet safety, including appropriate online behavior, in particular interacting with other individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms, and cyberbullying awareness and response.

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Guidelines for Staff

• District-owned technology that allows access to the Internet by students should only be placed in areas where adults are available to monitor.

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Email Guidelines - Staff E-mail Accounts

• Email users are expected to use commonly accepted practices. Messages should not contain large attachments, large embedded graphics, or such a long recipient list as to cause difficulty for the district email server.

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Email Guidelines - Staff E-mail Accounts

Acceptable

• Using email to fulfill the responsibilities of the position in which employed.
• Incidental personal use, meaning that staff may from time-to-time use district property (telephones and e-mail) for personal communication, as long it will not interfere with district operations, and that will not be a discredit to the district.

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Email Guidelines - Staff E-mail Accounts

Unacceptable

• Violation of Washington RCW 42.17.130 on political activity
• Violation of Washington Law, School Board Policy, District Administrative Rules.
• The use of vulgar and/or plainly offensive, obscene, or sexually explicit �language in any form.
• Copying commercial software or other material in violation of federal copyright laws.

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Email Guidelines - Staff E-mail Accounts

Unacceptable

• Use of the network for financial gain, commercial activity, or illegal activity.
• Accessing another person's individual account without prior consent or �accessing a restricted account without the prior consent of the responsible administrator or teacher.
• Sharing of inappropriate materials or their sources with students or other adults or knowingly accessing inappropriate materials

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For More Information

Common Sense Media: Digital Citizenship Lessons

Digital Literacy Workshops : Tutorials on Safety, Copyright, Cyberbullying and Tech Skills

Acknowledgement

Newly Hired Staff and Interns: Complete the form to acknowledge that you have read the Acceptable Use Policy and understand your responsibilities. And to begin the activation of your district login information. http://goo.gl/qFeM9

Current Staff: Complete the form to acknowledge that you have read the Acceptable Use Policy and understand your responsibilities.

http://goo.gl/woSYL

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