3211 - TECHNOLOGY CODE OF CONDUCT

Mt. Clemens Community Schools

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3211 - TECHNOLOGY CODE OF CONDUCT

Mount Clemens Community School District encourages and strongly promotes the use of technology in education. To ensure that students, staff, parents, and other community members can take full advantage of the technologies available, all use of technology must have proper authorization and adherence to the District's Technology Code of Conduct.

	A.	All use of technology must be in support of and be consistent with the purposes of the School District. It is the user's responsibility to keep all objectionable material, inappropriate files, or files and software dangerous to the integrity of the system off of the system.
	B.	Each user shall accept the responsibility for the preservation and care of technology to include the respect for another individual's work, files, and programs and to ensure that all materials that could cause damage (such as food, drink, magnetic sources, etc.) are kept away from all equipment.
	C.	It is the user's responsibility to make sure no equipment or software is destroyed, modified, or abused in any way. It is the user's responsibility to obtain proper authorization prior to the addition, removal, or relocation of any equipment or software.
	D.	Individuals will accept the responsibility for adhering to the laws for copyrighted materials. Users will accept responsibility for personal software, which must be instructor approved and disk based when used on school premises and appropriate for school use as specified by individual school guidelines.
	E.	Users shall not intentionally seek information on, obtain copies of, or modify files, other data, or passwords belonging to other users, or misrepresent other users on the District network or any other networks. Users shall comply with the stated purposes and acceptable use policies of any networks utilized. All communications and information accessible via the network should be assumed to be District property and appropriate copyright regulations should be followed.
	F.	The consequences for failing to adhere to the Technology Code of Conduct are defined by each individual building's procedures and are further defined in student handbooks, by employee contract, by State/Federal law, and the District's Acceptable Use Policy.