The International School Eastern Seaboard (ISE) actively promotes the appropriate 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 adhere to the school’s code of conduct.
1. All use of technology must be in support of and consistent with the purposes of the International School Eastern School. It is the user’s responsibility to keep all inappropriate materials and files, virus-infected media, or other software dangerous to the integrity of the system away from the school’s technology.
2. The school expects that students will not access inappropriate materials. Inappropriate use, materials and/or access include, but are not limited to, plagiarism, pornography, hate mail, chain letters, unauthorized access (hacking), and email messages that initiate false alarms, etc.
3. Individuals are responsible for adhering to the laws for copyrighted materials under international guidelines. All software installed on school computers or on the school’s network should be owned by ISE with sufficient licensing agreements
4. Each user shall respect another individual’s work, files, passwords and programs. Users shall not intentionally seek information on, obtain copies of, or modify files, other data, or passwords belonging to other users, or misrepresent others using the school’s technology or other networks. You have full responsibility for the use of your account; do not share your password or account.
5. It is the user’s responsibility to exercise reasonable judgment to ensure that no equipment or software is destroyed, modified, or abused in any way. Users must ensure that all food and drink are kept away from all equipment.
6. Users should be responsible and not knowingly degrade the performance of the network. For example, electronic chain letters and Internet chat rooms are prohibited for this reason. Real audio broadcasts that are not for specific educational purposes are also prohibited during the school day because of the impact on limited bandwidth. In other cases, downloading files from the Internet may also be restricted.
7. The consequences for failure to adhere to the technology code of conduct may result in restriction or complete loss of access to any and all forms of technology or other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate by the school administration.
