SACS+AUP

The Metropolitan School District of Southwest Allen County shall provide its students, faculty, and staff access to the Internet to promote educational excellence and to achieve the corporation’s educational mission, goals, and objectives. Use of the Internet should be based on specific curriculum-driven objectives and goals. The Internet enables users to explore thousands of libraries, databases, bulletin boards, and other resources. Use of the Internet is an integral part of the district’s curricula. Faculty members will provide guidance and instruction about the Internet to students. The district makes every reasonable effort to filter access to the Internet. The district’s responsibilities include establishing reasonable boundaries of acceptable use, educating students about acceptable use, providing general supervision, and enforcing acceptable use guidelines. The district assumes no responsibility for any costs, liabilities, or damages that a user may incur while accessing the Internet. Parents or legal guardians not wishing their student to have Internet access for curricular use must notify the school’s administrator in writing. 1. All users will follow copyright procedures. 2. Internet use may not violate any local, state, or federal laws or statutes. 3. Use of the Internet to access or process visual depictions of obscenity, child or adult pornography and/or materials harmful to minors, inappropriate text files, or files dangerous to the integrity of the network is prohibited. 4. Direct electronic communications are not private. Their use must be curriculum related and reflect all guidelines herein with particular emphasis on protection of personal identification information. 5. Users shall not use the network to harass or bully others. 6. Inappropriate use of the network for personal and private business is prohibited. 7. Any use of the network for product advertisement or political lobbying is prohibited. 8. Users are prohibited from bypassing or attempting to bypass SACS servers or internet filters by any means, including but not limited to use of proxies or other anonymous website surfing. It is important that students, staff and parents understand this policy. The use of inappropriate material may result in the loss of the privilege to use this educational tool. If a user violates any of these provisions, his/her account will be terminated and future access could possibly be denied. Violation of these guidelines is subject to disciplinary procedures by the school’s building administrator.
 * INTERNET ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY **
 * 6080 Internet Acceptable Use **
 * Guidelines: **

1. Install software on SACS computers. Only software that is licensed to or owned by Southwest Allen County Schools is to be installed on Southwest Allen County School computers. 2. Copy software unless authorized by the copyright holder. 3. Download software file types, such as exe, mp3, zip, unless authorized by the Technology Department. 4. Store non curriculum related materials on Southwest Allen County Schools Servers 5. Use mobile devices, I-pod, cell phone, pda, micro drives, to install games, or bring non school work related files to school. 6. Student folders will be limited to 700mb in size. Employees/Students must not use the Internet for purposes that are illegal, unethical, immoral, harmful to the corporation, or nonproductive. Examples of unacceptable use are: Sending or forwarding chain email, i.e., messages containing instructions to forward the message to others. Indiscriminate broadcasting email, i.e., sending the same message to a large number of people regardless of the relevance of the message to those people. Conducting a commercial business using corporation resources. Viewing, sending, or receiving pornography or any other obscene material. Transmitting any content that is offensive, harassing, or fraudulent. Playing/downloading games. Non-instructional use of streaming audio or video. File downloads from the Internet are not permitted unless they are for curriculum related projects.
 * STUDENT TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTABLE USE GUIDELINES **
 * Students shall not: **
 * Unacceptable use **
 * Downloads **