Software: Installed and supported by CV authorized technology staff

A. A copy of this policy and related forms is available on the Cumberland Valley School District Web site.

B. Students and parents must sign the agreement. A staff Acceptable Use Policy is being considered by the School District.

C. An understanding of the Acceptable Use Policy and proper supervision of Internet access should be emphasized in the classroom, computer lab and media center.

A. All Cumberland Valley school pages will be housed on the Cumberland Valley SD server.

B. All pages must conform to the Americans with Disabilities Act guidelines requesting that text information be included with each graphic, video clip/sound file icon, image map and related visual objects.

C. All work must be reviewed by the appropriate administrator/designer/faculty representative and the Instructional Technology Coordinator for appropriateness, completeness, accuracy and relevancy.

D. Any Web page with student input must be monitored and reviewed before published.

A. Cumberland Valley School District does not publish personal student pages. All pages presented to the public are to be academic and/or school-related. Remember, the potential audience is larger and more diverse than just your local school community.

B. Purpose of the Web page: Identify your audience, your message and purpose, and then communicate it. Web pages are used to inform by providing static information to your audience and/or providing event information. The site should contain information useful to your school, parents, community or something unique to share.

C. A Web page must be well planned. Involve your supervisor or principal. Approach the Web page as a publication. Each page is checked for content, accuracy and appearance before it is reviewed by administration. Web pages should be frequently updated if they advertise events or describe current or upcoming activities.

D. A photograph of anyone (unless clearly taken in public such as a crowd or sporting event) cannot be published without written permission of the subject and parent if the student is under 18 years of age. Do not publish photographs of students on the Web unless in an unidentified group (no names).

E. Copyright law applies to the World Wide Web. Assume that everything on the Web is copyrighted unless the author states otherwise. The "classroom use" provision of the copyright law does not apply to material that is published on the open Internet and World Wide Web. Reproducing and publishing someone else’s graphics on the Web without their permission is a violation of the copyright law.

F. Do not leave dead links active. If you want to indicate that the text will be linked at some point, place some text that indicates that something new is coming. This will encourage your visitors to return to see what’s new. Consider users with systems and browsers different that your browser. Be consistent with the text used for every link.

A. Navigation

Provide links using text (graphics) to and back from other parts of the Web page or other related Web pages. Limit your link levels to no more than three "jumps" from the tithe or home page.

B. Background

If the page background compromises the content readability of the page, the background must be changed to promote readability.

C. Graphics

Graphics, animations must be integral to the content message.

D. Viewing Area

Eliminate excessive user page scrolling whenever possible. Body text font size should be large enough to read on a 13-inch monitor, yet not too large to require additional user scrolling.