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× Important information Ok × Privacy Policy Ok Montebello Unified School District Important information Loading... Click Start to begin English español Montebello Unified School District MUSD-Net Handbook of Ethical and Acceptable Use The Montebello Unified School District is providing advanced technology and increased access to learning opportunities for the District’s learning community. The District has installed an intra-net MUSD-Net” providing networked computing with an Internet gateway. Through use of these services, students and staff will be able to communicate with colleagues throughout the world, share information, learn new concepts, research diverse subjects, and utilize state-of-the-art personal productivity tools. The District provides these services as one means of fulfilling its mission to educate, inform, and culturally enrich user experiences, by providing resources for both formal and informal learning. The resources available on the Internet expands the District’s information services well beyond traditional collections and electronic resources opening access to information, ideas and commentaries from around the world and a vast array of tools and resources for different age levels and points of view. The District has defined MUSD-Net to have a purpose limited to the advancement and accomplishment of the District’s educational mission, goals, and objectives. Because the District’s information services are used as a part of District and school activities, all District and school codes of conduct and disciplinary procedures apply to activities involving use of MUSD-Net. Board of Education Policy and Administrative Regulations address vandalism, unauthorized access to information, computer piracy, hacking, cyberbullying, appropriate online behavior including interacting with other individuals on social networking sites and in chat rooms, and tampering with hardware or software. Acceptable Use Policy The District has adopted an Acceptable Use Policy to set guidelines for the use of MUSD-Net services. All students, employees, and parents or guardians shall follow the rules set forth in the acceptable use policy (AUP) and to report any misuse of the system to a teacher, administrator, or supervisor. The use of MUSD-Net is a privilege, not a right, and inappropriate, unauthorized, or unacceptable use will result in the restriction or cancellation of a user’s privilege to utilize MUSD-Net. Additionally, inappropriate, unauthorized, or unacceptable use may lead to disciplinary and/or legal action, including but not limited to suspension, expulsion or dismissal from school or employment, and/or criminal prosecution by government authorities. It is the user’s sole responsibility should restriction or cancellation of MUSD-Net privileges affect their ability to execute their duties as students or staff. Limited Private Network The District has restricted access to materials and placed restrictions on speech and content, to assure use of the system for educational purposes. MUSD-Net has not been established as a public access service or a public forum. Users have limited privacy expectations in the contents of their personal files and records of their online activity while using the system. The District declares its ownership of the hardware, software, data, network, and all work performed, and asserts its right to review and exercise its ownership at any time by search of the system, its equipment, and any information contained therein. District Administration through the system administrator has the right and authority to monitor all accounts, including e-mail and other materials stored, transmitted or received utilizing the District’s equipment and/or services. All such materials are the property of the District. Users do not have any right to or expectation of privacy regarding such materials. Acceptable Use Users are expected to use MUSD-Net to pursue intellectual activities, seek resources, access libraries and other types of learning materials and activities. Users are encouraged to explore the vast educational resources available through these services, and discover what is available. Users should participate in new exciting learning experiences, and share their knowledge and experiences with others. The District endeavors to promote the safe, ethical, responsible, and legal use of the District’s technological resources, including the Internet; support the effective use of these resources for educational purposes; protect students against potential dangers in their use of the Internet; and ensure accountability. Student use and activities will be structured in a manner that is appropriate to the age and skills of the students, recognizing the importance of providing more secure environments for younger students and supporting safe, responsible, use by older students. Student use of MUSD-Net will be supervised by staff in a manner that is appro-priate to the age of the students and circumstances of use. The District desires that all users have positive, safe, and productive experiences while using MUSD-Net. The following safe and responsible use issues are incorporated to establish guidelines for use of MUSD-Net and the Internet. Students shall not reveal on the Internet personal information about themselves or about any other persons. For example, students should not reveal their full names, home addresses, telephone numbers, school addresses, or parents’ names on the Internet. Account access codes and passwords are established to provide users access to the network, to identify the user, and establish what services the user is authorized to utilize. Users shall not disclose his/her password to others or allow other users to use their accounts. Users shall not access any account not specifically assigned to them. iii. Users should not meet anyone they have met on the Internet in a secluded place or a private setting. Minors shall not meet in person anyone they have met on the Internet without their parent’s permission. All users shall utilize appropriate language when communicating or posting information or images on MUSD-Net or any part of the Internet. Users may not post or distribute material that may contain content that could be considered threatening, defamatory, obscene, offensive, harassing, disruptive, or derogatory, including but not limited to, sexual comments or images, racial or ethnic slurs, or other comments or images that would offend someone on the basis of ancestry, color, race, creed, gender, ethnic group identification, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, political beliefs, or physical and/or mental disability. All content and communications shall meet the standards for use on a publicly-owned and operated communication vehicle. Users shall not access or store any material that may contain content that a reasonable person would consider to be obscene, pornographic, pedophilic, or sexually harassing. Unsolicited materials containing any of the above mentioned material shall not be dwelled upon, and shall be deleted as soon as possible. Transfer of any such unsolicited materials shall only be to supervisors or MUSD-Net security personnel and then only for the purposes of reporting the incident. Users may not harass other users or individuals either inside the MUSD community or on the Internet at large. If a user or individual asks that you no longer send them mail or in any other way contact them, you must stop all contact immediately. Users shall not post or send any material to either MUSD-Net or the Internet anonymously. vii. Materials obtained or copied utilizing MUSD-Net may be subject to laws that govern making reproductions of copyrighted works. A work protected by copyright may not be copied without permission of the copyright owner unless the proposed use falls within the definition of educational Fair Use.” Users are responsible for compliance with all international, national and state laws...