Please keep in mind our district’s “Student Digital Responsibility Guidelines” (page 2) when communicating, accessing and/or using teacher or class created content.
District Technologies & Information Systems: Student Digital Responsibility Guidelines Dos and Don’ts
DO
• Use District and personally-owned devices and digital tools for educational purposes
• Follow copyright laws and acknowledge and respect the ownership of others for their creative
works
• Keep your personal information private (like last name, home address, phone numbers, pictures,
and passwords)
• Respect the privacy of other students and adults
• Report uncomfortable, unsafe, or inappropriate behaviour or messages to your
teacher or principal
• Treat others fairly and with respect
• Understand that digital tools such as e-mail, messaging, social networks, websites, wikis, blogs,
and texting are not guaranteed to be private
DO NOT
• Share your passwords
• Take and use someone else’s identity (their name, password)
• Falsify your identity
• Take pictures or videos of others and share them without their permission
• Hurt or mistreat others by what you create or share
• Harass, stalk, bully, threaten, insult, abuse, or attack others
• Damage computer systems, networks, digital tools or content
• Access secure information owned by others without their permission
• Use information or work of others as your own without their permission
• Use software programs that are not provided by the District or that are not free or purchased
by you for your personally-owned device
• Use District or personally-owned devices for commercial, illegal, or malicious purposes
• Use District or personally-owned devices to operate file sharing services
• Access/distribute pictures, videos, audio or text that contains inappropriate nudity/language
• Meet with someone you met online without parent/guardian consent
(retrieved from: https://teachinginhighered.com/2017/02/07/digital-literacy/)