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Purpose The Orange Grove Independent School District provides technology resources to all District administrators, faculty, staff, and students. The goal in providing these resources is to promote educational excellence by following the Acceptable Use Guidelines. The District’s technology resources will be used only for learning, teaching and administrative purposes consistent with the District’s mission and goals. The Acceptable Use Policy procedures that follow provide details regarding the appropriate and inappropriate use of District computers. The procedures do not attempt to articulate all required or proscribed behavior by users. All users are expected to use the computers and computer networks in a responsible, ethical, and polite manner. You, the user, are ultimately responsible for your actions in accessing and using District computers and the District computer network. As a user of the District computers, you are expected to review and understand the guidelines and procedures in this document.
Personal
Responsibility By
signing this Policy, a user is agreeing not only to follow the rules in this
Policy, but also is agreeing to report any misuse of the network to the person
designated by the School for such reporting.
Misuse means any violations of this Policy or any other use that is not
included in the Policy, but has the effect of harming another or his or her
property or privacy.
Term of
the Permitted Use A user who submits to the school, as directed, a properly signed policy and follows the policy to which he or she has agreed will have computer network and Internet access during the course of the school year. Users will be asked to sign a new policy each year before they are given an access account. Users should not disclose or share their password or use the account of another student or staff member. A user is responsible for all activity logged under his or her account name. Appropriate
Use Procedures The
District expects everyone to exercise good judgment and use the computer
equipment in a professional manner.
The
School will also monitor the of students, through direct observation online
activities and/or technological means, to ensure that students are not accessing
such content or any other material that is inappropriate for minors.
Use of the equipment is expected to be related to the District’s goals
of educating students and/or conducting District business.
If a user has any doubt about whether a contemplated activity is
educationally related, he or she may consult with the District Technology
Coordinator or other school designee. The District recognizes, however, that
some personal use is inevitable, and that incidental and occasional personal use
that is infrequent or brief in duration is permitted so long that as it occurs
on personal time, does not interfere with District business, instructional time,
and is not otherwise prohibited by District policy or procedures.
Inappropriate
Use Prohibited
Uses: District Computers may not be used for the following purposes:
Care
for District Computers Users of District Computers
are expected to respect the District’s property and be responsible in using
the equipment. Users are to follow any District instructions regarding
maintenance or care of the equipment. Users may be held responsible for any
damage caused by your intentional or negligent acts in caring for District
Computers under your control. The District is responsible for any routine
maintenance or standard repairs to District Computers. Users are expected to
timely notify the District of any need for service. If a District laptop is lost,
damaged, or stolen while under the control of a user, the user is expected to
file a claim under his/her insurance coverage, where coverage is available.
Except in cases of negligent or intentional loss or damage, the District will
cover out-of-pocket expenses.
Software Use of District Software:
District software is licensed to the District by a large number of vendors and
may have specific license restrictions regarding copying or using a particular
program. Users of District software must obtain permission from the District
prior to copying or loading District software onto any computer, whether the
computer is privately owned or is a District Computer.
District approved software used for educational purposes (Gradespeed,
Novanet) must be uninstalled from the employees personal computer upon
termination from employment.
Use
of Non-District Software Prior to loading non-District software onto District
Computers (including laptops, desktops, and OGISDNet), a user must receive
permission from the District. The District will create a list of
"authorized software" programs that may be loaded onto District
laptops without specific permission. For example, a user will be able to load
software onto a laptop that is necessary for a user to access a personal
Internet service for the purpose of remotely accessing the District’s email
network. All software must be legally licensed by the user prior to loading onto
District Equipment. The unauthorized use of and/or copying of software are
illegal.
Unauthorized use of software is
regarded as a serious matter and any such use is without the consent of OGISD."
Monitoring/Using
Internet and the World Wide Web
The District will monitor and review the information
in order to analyze the use of systems or compliance with policies, conduct
audits, review performance or conduct, obtain information, or for other reasons.
The District reserves the right to disclose any electronic message to law
enforcement officials, and under some circumstances, may be required to disclose
information to law enforcement officials, the public, or other third parties,
for example, in response to a document production request made in a lawsuit
involving the District or by a third party against the user or pursuant to a
public records disclosure request.
Active
Restriction Measures
The
School, either by itself or in combination with the Educational Service Center
providing Internet access, will utilize filtering software or other technologies
to prevent students from accessing visual depictions that are (1) obscene, (2)
pornographic, or (3) harmful to minors. The School will also monitor the of
students, through direct observation online activities and/or technological
means, to ensure that students are not accessing such content or any other
material that is inappropriate for minors. Internet filtering software or other
technology-based protection systems may be disabled by a
supervising
teacher or school administrator, as necessary, for purposes of bona fide
researcher other educational projects being conducted by students age 17 and
older. Consequences
of improper use Improper
or unethical or any violation of this policy use may result in disciplinary
actions consistent with the existing Student Discipline Policy and, if
appropriate, the Texas Penal Code, Computer Crimes, Chapter 33, or other state
and federal laws. The
Appropriate Use Procedures are applicable to all users of District Computers and
refers to all information resources whether individually controlled, shared,
stand alone, or networked. Disciplinary action, if any, for students, staff, and
other users shall be consistent with the District’s standard policies and
practices. Violations may constitute cause for revocation of access privileges,
suspension of access to District computers, other school disciplinary action,
and/or appropriate legal action. Specific disciplinary measures will be
determined on a case-by-case basis. This
may also require restitution for costs associated with system restoration,
hardware, or software costs. **Since
technology and the Internet are constantly changing, these rules and regulations
are subject to change by the administration.
Students will be notified when such changes are made. |
