1.1
Educators shall respect the intellectual property rights of others.
Rationale:
Educators shall assume
all software is copyrighted. People who use software that is protected
by U.S. copyright laws bear the responsibility to protect this software
from being copied.
1.2 Educators
shall use resources only for the purpose for which they were assigned.
Rationale:
It is the responsibility
of the educator to safeguard their resources such as computer login names,
data switch addresses, telephone numbers, network addresses, passwords,
accounting data, systems programs, and other data required for access to
computing and communications services, and to use them for the specific
purpose for which they were allocated.
1.3 Educators
shall treat resources assigned to them as property of the school.
Rationale:
Educators shall take
care to protect the integrity of the passwords, login names, files, programs,
network addresses, and telephone numbers assigned to them for academic
work. Most computer security intrusions are due to the lack of proper
security for these.
These resources are
NOT the private property of the educator, nor are they transferable.
However, educators should treat resources assigned to other users as private
property. Do not attempt to discover another user's passwords.
Information that
educators have not been invited to use is not theirs to access.
1.4 Educators
shall understand that electronic communications such as e-mail are not
private property.
Rationale:
Since they are delivered
on computer facilities owned by the school, they are school property.
System administrators may view it in order to track a problem.
1.5 Educators
shall respect the computing needs of others.
Rationale:
Educators will not
monopolize computer resources and thereby deny other users. This
could include, but is not limited to using more than one terminal or workstation
or using them for personal use while others are waiting.
Printing personal
pictures, banners, or posters on school printers is likewise inappropriate.
Educators should
avoid intentionally sabotaging
the network with invasive software such as viruses, worms, Trojan horses,
etc. Users must also take care not to use infected disks or infected
files on the network. Practice safe computing!
Educators should
not load software on network directories unless explicitly permitted.
Educators should
not tamper with any terminal, microcomputer, printer, or other computer
equipment.
Computing and communications
utilities are not toys to be used to harass other users. Do not use
these facilities to send abusive remarks (even in jest), to degrade others,
to make threatening or obscene remarks, or to generate derogatory, obscene,
or vulgar output.
Computing resources
are valuable resources and no user has the right to deny or degrade any
service or interfere in any way with another valid user.