IJNDC-R SCHOOL DISTRICT WEBSITE/WEB PAGES ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE
AGREEMENTA. TOWebsite PUBLISH STUDENT INFORMATION ONPurpose
SCHOOL DISTRICT WEBSITES
The purpose of the Regional School Unit 1 maintains official websiteswebsite is to provide general information about theour school districtsystem as well as information about educational programs, extracurricular activities, school eventsevents, and student and staff achievements. The website is intended to support the educational mission of the schools, to enhance the curriculum and learning opportunities for students and staff, and to provide valuable information to the larger community about our schools. The following guidelines are intended to ensure that the website meets these goals and to establish reasonable controls to protect the privacy of students and staff, to ensure that the website is in compliance with applicable laws, and to ensure that it meets the highest educational and quality standards.
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The Regional School Unit 1 website includes the following components:
1. A district level site providing system-wide information (including but not limited to Central Office information, School Board information, Transportation, Facilities and Food Service information);
2. Individual school level sites with school specific information;
3. Individual department, grade level and/or classroom information (including student work and/or teacher-created work and resources) at the district or school level, as appropriate; and
4. School-sponsored extracurricular organization information.
C. School District Authority and Webmaster Responsibilities
Regional School Unit 1 reserves the right to edit, delete, or modify any web page content as it sees fit to comply with the intended purposes of the website and these guidelines.
The Superintendent shall designate a Webmaster, or team, who shall be responsible for maintaining the Regional School Unit 1website, approving all material to be posted on the site, and monitoring all website activities for compliance with Board policies, applicable laws and regulations, and these guidelines. If the Webmaster or a member of the webmaster team is unsure whether particular material is appropriate, they shall consult with the Superintendent, whose decision shall be final. Only the Webmaster and webmaster team shall have password-protected access to the web server to place and remove web pages and content.
D. Content, Quality and Subject Matter
1. The Regional School Unit 1website, and all associated sites, does not create, nor is it intended to create, a public schoolsor limited public forum. All materials placed on the website must serve the educational mission of the school and comply with all Board policies, administrative procedures and school rules concerning the publication and distribution of school-sponsored materials.
2. All materials placed on the website must meet academic standards for proper spelling, grammar, content and accuracy.
3. All materials placed on the website must comply with all Board policies, administrative procedures and school rules concerning the acceptable use of technology.
4. Web page content must be limited to obtainschool-sponsored writteninformation approvaland fromactivities. parents/guardians priorNo topersonal publishingstudent or staff web pages, chat rooms, or discussion groups are permitted on the website.
E. Confidentiality of Student Information
1. The website shall be in compliance with all applicable confidentiality laws and regulations.
2. At no time shall personal information about students (such as home address, telephone number, e-mail address, birth date, social security number, etc.) or information made confidential by state or federal law appear on the Internet.
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A. Full nameslocation of students at any given time, other than attendance at a particular school or participation in connectionschool withactivities.
3. Student information, photographs or work may only be published on the website if the student’s parent/guardian has signed the Parent/Guardian Agreement Form to Publish Student Information. For purposes of these guidelines, student information includes name, class rosters, honor rolls, awardsawards/honors received, and team/extracurricular activity participantparticipation lists;lists.
B.F. GroupConfidentiality of Staff Information
1. At no time shall personal information about staff appear on the website (including home address, home telephone number, home e-mail address, birth date, social security number, etc.).
2. Because the Regional School Unit 1website is maintained in part to enhance communication with students and their families, the school e-mail address and/or individualtelephone photographsnumbers of students; and
C. Individual student or class workstaff may be published on the website.
G. Copyright
1. Appropriate permission will be obtained before any copyrighted or trademarked material is used on the website. No copyrighted material may be reproduced, transmitted or stored on the Regional School Unit 1website without obtaining permission from the copyright owner.
2. Students shall retain the copyright on materials that they create.
3. An appropriate copyright notice will appear with all copyrighted material published on the website.
4. Except for the above exceptions, all web pages and materials published on school system’sdistrict websites fromare timethe property of and owned by Regional School Unit 1.
H. Advertising
The Regional School Unit 1website will not include any advertising, nor will it include any selling activities outside of publicity for school-sponsored and/or approved fundraising activities.
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with1. establishedThe guidelines.Regional SuchSchool workUnit 1website will not include links to any personal websites of students or staff.
2. The website may include creativelinks writing,only researchto projects,websites artwork,that music,have performances,demonstrated andeducational audiovisualvalue presentations.to Allstudents, studentstaff workand/or willthe community, as deemed appropriate by the Webmaster or webmaster team.
3. The website shall include a copyrightdisclaimer noticeinforming prohibitingusers that links are provided as a convenience, and that Regional School Unit 1does not endorse these sites or have any responsibility for the copyingcontent of suchthese worksites.
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Copies1. ofThe website shall inform users about how to contact the Board’sWebmaster.
Policy2. andThe GuidelinesWebmaster areor availablewebmaster atteam thewill Superintendent’sprovide office,appropriate everyinformation to school office,users orregarding technical requirements for publishing material on the school system’s website at www.rsu1.org.website.
WhenAdopted: providing student names, the following guidelines are to be followed:
For students in grades Pre-K through grade 5, names will not be included with photos of students.
For students in grades 6 -8, names will only be included with photos in group settings.
Student names with photos may be provided in grades 9-12.
D. Students and Guardians will be asked to confirm that they have reviewed this policy and agree to it by completing the relevant Acknowledgement Section in Infinite Campus, which is shared with families annually.
Adopted: March 25, 2024