The Board of Education authorizes staff members and students to create web pages/sites that will be hosted on the Board's servers and published on the Internet. The web pages/sites must reflect the professional image of the District, its employees, and students. The content of all pages must be consistent with the Board's Mission Statement and staff-created web pages/sites are subject to prior review and approval of the building administrator. Student-created web pages/sites are subject to Policy 5722 – School Sponsored Publications and Production. The creation of web pages/sites must be done under the supervision of a professional staff member.

The purpose of web pages/sites hosted on the Board's servers is to educate, inform, and communicate. The following criteria shall be used to guide the development of such web pages/sites:

The information contained on the Board's web site should reflect and support the Board's Mission Statement, Educational Philosophy, and the School Improvement Process.

When the content includes a photograph or information relating to a student, the Board will abide by the provisions of Policy 8330 - Student Records.

All links included on web pages must also meet the above criteria and comply with State and Federal law (e.g. copyright law, Children's Internet Protection Act).

Under no circumstances is a web site to be used for commercial purposes, advertising, political lobbying, or to provide financial gains for any individual. Included in this prohibition is the fact no web pages contained on the District's web site may: (1) include statements or other items that support or oppose a candidate for public office, the investigation, prosecution or recall of a public official, or passage of a tax levy or bond issue; (2) link to a web site of another organization if the other web site includes such a message; or (3) communicate information that supports or opposes any labor organization or any action by, on behalf of, or against any labor organization. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent the Board from linking on the District's web site to recognized news/media outlets (e.g., local newspapers' web sites, local television stations' web sites).

Under no circumstances is a staff member-created web pages/site, including personal web pages/sites, to be used to post-student progress reports and/or grades.

Staff members are prohibited from requiring students to go to the staff member's personal web pages/sites (including, but not limited to, their Facebook or MySpace pages) to check grades, obtain class assignments and/or class-related materials, and/or to turn in assignments.

Pages should reflect an understanding that both internal and external audiences will be viewing the information.

School web sites must be located on Board-affiliated servers.

The District Administrator shall prepare administrative guidelines defining the standards.

The Board retains all proprietary rights to the design of web sites and/or pages that are hosted on the Board's servers, absent written agreement to the contrary.

Students who want their class work to be displayed on the Board's web site must have written permission from their parent or guardian and expressly license its display without cost to the Board.

Prior written permission by a student's parent or guardian is necessary for a student to be identified by name on the Board's web site.

Revised 6/17/02
Revised 11/9/09