A. General guidelines for student, teacher & classroom sites

1. Posting

All web pages produced by faculty or staff that reference or depict the school/district are assumed to be school- or district-owned educational resources, created for the sole purpose of education, and shall be posted on a school-maintained web site, with the exception of school-authorized sites whose purpose is to simplify the process by which a page/site is posted.  All student web sites/pages must be approved by authorized school personnel for posting prior to being posted. 

2. Disclaimers

If a user’s home page is housed on a school/district server, but has links to sites/pages which are not housed on a school/district server, the user must include the following disclaimer: 

"The FrontierRegional District is not responsible for any content which is not hosted on our servers" 

Any school-related web page produced by staff but not housed on the school web site must be posted to an authorized site and must include the following disclaimer: 

"The contents of this site/page express the views of the author(s) only and do not necessarily express the views of the Frontier Regional School District.” 

The school/district is not responsible for content on school-related web sites not housed on our site or on another authorized site. 

3. Student pictures and work

According to federal and state law, student personally identifying images and educational information cannot be posted on the web without prior written permission by the appropriate individual. 

4. Content

Do not advertise, endorse or link to any product or organization whose primary function is not to disseminate educational content (e.g., commercial enterprises or political groups).  Certain fundraising information and links may be allowed, such as “shopforschool.com” or “marketday.com” and certain exceptions may be made for commercial entities who have significantly contributed to the school community (e.g., Verizon or Microsoft).  These company links are allowed at the discretion of appropriate school administrators; please see school- and district-specific provisions at the end of this document for more information.  In all cases, exceptions may be made when links to commercial or political groups are provided for legitimate educational purposes—for instance, links to the sites of political parties for civics courses, or links to commercial entities for media literacy courses. 

Proof your content and use a spell checker before posting.  As an educational institution with a potentially broad audience, it is incumbent upon us to have grammatically correct content.  Viewers often have high expectations and we must maintain a high level of accountability to our community. 

5. Copyright issues

Make certain that copyrighted material conforms to the “fair use” test (http://www.benedict.com/basic/fairuse/fairtest.htm) and that all copyrighted material on your site is appropriately credited.