General Guidelines For Use of Computers

1. All use of computers must be for educational or research purposes, and consistent with the mission and goals of the school.

2. All students should keep passwords private and never reveal then to anyone.

3. The Internet will be used to support the school curriculum, projects between schools, communication, and research for students, faculty and administration.

4. No viewing of the following types of material is allowed at school: offensive materials, hate mail, discriminatory remarks, or obscene or pornographic material. 

5. Users of computer equipment must be polite and respectful of the rights of others. This means no writing or sending of abusive messages or use of inappropriate language. 

6. The network may not be used for illegal activity, for purposes of profit, non-school-related activities, lobbying, advertising, transmission of offensive materials, hate mail, discriminatory remarks, or obscene or pornographic material. 

7. Students many not access chat room or newsgroups from the school computer system. 

8. E-mail may be used during the school day for academic, but not for personal purposes, only with the permission of the teacher or moderator present. If there is a personal need, students may access e-mail before or after school. E-mail is never private and users pf e-mail should be aware of this. 

9. Computer system software, also known as the "desktop" should not be changed or tampered with. This includes, but is not limited to, computer configuration, screen savers, backgrounds, alert noises, recording sounds, etc. 

10. Installation or setup of any type of software, such as AOL, AOL Instant Messenger, games, or any other unauthorized software is forbidden. 

11. Computers are not to be used for recreational purposes during school hours, such as listening to, downloading, and printing music or music lyrics.

12. Any work done on a computer should be saved in a user folder and not on any other part of the computer. Students are allowed to save no more than 10 MB of data in their user folders. Work saved in a user folder is backed up on a daily basis; however, work saved on any other part of the computer may be deleted at any time without warning or backup.

13. Students should always log off the network when they are finished using it and they should shutdown computers at the end of the day.