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Mission Statement
Management
Copyright
Autoring Guidelines
Student Pages

The USD 273 website will serve as a communication tool for distributing school district information and on-line resources to parents, students, district employees, and the community. Overall, our objectives are 1) to enhance the community's knowledge of school policies and activities, 2) share school and library resources with members of the community, 3) increase parent's awareness of student's curriculum, assignments, and current studies, and 4) increase communication between parents, teachers, and the community.

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Management of District Website

The management of the district website will be the responsibility of three persons, the District Network Administrator, and two building Webmasters, one at both the Jr. Sr. High School and the Elementary School.

Network Administrator

The District Network Administrator will oversee the full development of the website. Primary responsibilities include:

1. Management of the web server, firewall, and all hardware and software related to the website.
2. Creation of web directories and upper structures of the website.
3. Manage and setup all e-mail services.
4. Maintenance and monitoring of security for the website and the network.
5. Monitoring the site for compliance to district policies.
6. Communicating to the building Webmasters any concerns of the building and district administrators regarding the website.
7. Provide the building Webmasters with assistance when needed.
8. Manage the development of those parts of the website that pertain, not to either building, but the district in whole.

Building Webmasters

The website will have a Webmaster at both the Elementary and the Jr. Sr. High School. The overall responsibility of the building Webmasters is to oversee those web pages created at, or relating to, their facility. Primary responsibilities include:

1. Overall creation of their section of the site, as well as creating and managing the hierarchy of directories for their section of the website.
2. Developing the scope, content, themes and cohesiveness of their sections.
3. Choosing and assisting page authors from within their building.
4. Monitoring their section for accuracy, up-to-date information, and making sure that all pages are in compliance with district policies.
5. Serve as the authority within their building for all question of content, style, organization and other issues related to their section of the site.

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Copyright

USD 273 respects the laws of copyright and of intellectual and creative property. It is against USD 273 policy to publish any copyrighted material on the website without written permission from the author/creator of such property. This includes any and all audio, visual, textual, and software property.

Free clipart, music files, etc., gained from other sites may be used as long as doing so is in accordance with any desires or wishes of the originating site. Quotations, paraphrasing and summations may also be used in textual documents, as long as full credit and citation are given to the author, as per the MLA Style Book. The only other exceptions to this will be those uses of audio, visual, textual documents created by students, staff, or others as outlined in the district's "Website Privacy and Media Permission Guidelines."

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Guidelines for Authoring

Web page authors should keep in mind the purpose and need for the information contained on their pages. Before creating any pages, authors should get approval for their section of the site from their building Webmaster. This is necessary for the Network Administrator and the Webmasters to create the appropriate links and security for the new pages.

It is the responsibility of web page authors to:

1. Make sure that their pages do not violate any district policies.
2. Proofread the page for all grammatical and spelling errors, (remember that these pages reflect both yourself and your school).
3. Collect and keep on file any forms necessary to publish materials on the pages.
4. Make sure that all links to other sites are working, up-to-date, relevant, and appropriate.
5. Make sure that any media or external files for the pages are named and saved in a format proscribed by the Network Administrator or Webmaster.

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Student Generated Pages

Any web pages generated by students for publishing on the USD 273 website must meet the following criteria:

1. Pages must be created under the supervision a USD 273 certified teacher or administrator.
2. Pages must not violate any USD 273 policy.
3. The pages can only be published by the supervising staff member.
4. Student created pages must be educationally related, and created by the student for either a class assignment or as part of a school affiliated organization.

Students are permitted to help faculty and staff members create pages for their respective classes or departments.

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