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Randolph County School
Systems
Web Publishing Policy
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The
availability of Internet access in the Randolph County Schools, provides
an opportunity for the students and educators to contribute to the
school system's presence and recognizes the educational benefits of
publishing information on the World Wide Web.
As
individual schools each develop their own web pages, the following
guidelines will be used in the planning and design of the web site. |
Content Responsibility
| The school technology team
or committee or individual appointed by the the school's faculty senate
will be responsible for the school's "official" web page
design and approval, and keeping the web page current. |
Content
| All subject matter on
"official" school web pages should relate to curriculum,
instruction, school-authorized activities, general information that is
appropriate or of interest to others, or it should relate to Randolph
County Schools or individual schools in the county.
All pages should comply county and
state web publishing policy.
Content should be appropriate, in good
taste, and not harmful to any individual or group.
Business or commercial links or the
acknowledgment of a business should be restricted to business partners
and/or materials that are educational, provide technical support, or are
germane to the philosophy of the school/county. Commercial advertising
is prohibited.
Documents should be available to
validate information. |
Quality and Design
| Text should be
grammatically correct, accurately spelled, and have pleasing appearance.
Documents may not contain
objectionable material or point (link) to objectionable material.
Every home page should have a title
and top level heading that are the same and reference the theme of the
home page.
Information such as the e-mail address
of the responsible contact person, copyright, and the last date updated
should be included. Information on a page should remain current and be
accurate.
Since "beauty is in the eye of
the beholder" it is difficult to say what makes an attractive web
site. But school/county web pages should contain typical, good web
design elements including titles and top level headings that reference
the theme, sparing use of text with graphics, highlighting, logical
organization, use of thumbnail images where possible, meaningful text
with graphics, user friendly navigation and text only navigation. The
school/county web pages should be neat and attractive showing good
planning and design. |
Student Safeguards
| Web page documents may
include only the first name and initial of the student's last name.
Nicknames may be used.
Documents may not include a student's
personal information such as home address, home telephone number, the
names of other family members, etc.. They may not include any
information that indicates the physical location of a student at a given
time, other than attendance at a particular school or participation in a
class or activities.
Published e-mail address are
restricted to staff members or to a general group e-mail address where
arriving e-mail is forward to a staff member.
Decision on publishing student
pictures (video or still), audio clips, and student names will be made
by the technology team, faculty senate committee or person responsible
for the web page. Parental permission will be obtained and kept on file. |
Other
| All communications via the
school/county web pages will comply with the school/county Internet
usage policy.
Given the rapid change in the
technology, web page policy will be reviewed and updated on an annual
basis or more frequently if required. |
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