Student Compliance
Students in grades 7-12 may be issued an email account for the purpose of completing school work. Accounts may include access to chat and message boards within the account group. Student email accounts are filtered for content and monitored by authorized personnel. Students are not allowed to use the account to communicate outside of the school account system. Students must use appropriate language in all communications. The use of profanity, obscenity and offensive or inflammatory language is strictly prohibited and will result in disciplinary action.
Network Security
Only users with valid Williamson County School network accounts are authorized to use the Williamson County School's network and computer equipment. Employees and students must only use their assigned network account. You are prohibited from giving anyone your network password or network account information other than to authorized IT personnel.
Do not allow anyone to use a computer while you are logged in. All computer users should always logoff from the network before leaving their room or office.
For the protection and security of Williamson County Schools data, all computers attached to the Williamson County Schools physical network (a computer located at a Williamson County Schools facility either wired or wireless), must be the property of Williamson County Schools. It is prohibited to attach a computer that is not property of Williamson County Schools to the network without first receiving approval from IT Department management.
Use of software designed to gain passwords or access beyond the rights assigned to a user or computer are strictly prohibited. Use of such programs risk the security of the network and is considered "hacking". The intent to control unauthorized access is a violation of State and Federal law. Violators will be prosecuted. Should you inadvertently discover passwords or any other measure used to control unauthorized access, you must report this to the IT Department.
No user shall encrypt files or folders or attempt to hide files or folders stored on a network server or local workstation. Any encrypted or hidden files will be deleted. Encrypted and hidden files are a security risk since they cannot be managed by IT administrators.
All network users may be monitored at any time by authorized personnel for the purpose and inspection of compliance to these guidelines.
Workstation/Computer Use
All employees and students are prohibited from installing any software on any computer unless authorized in writing by a member of the IT Department. Illegal downloads or use of copyrighted software, music, videos, pictures or other files is strictly prohibited. Only compatible, legitimate and approved school related software is acceptable.
All employees and students are prohibited from using any computer for illegal, obscene, pornographic or commercial activity.
Changing or tampering with any computer's system configuration is strictly prohibited.
Any attempt to bypass the State provided internet content filtering by use of a proxy or other means is strictly prohibited unless authorized.
Any desktop applications designed to limit access to students or staff, other than those used by the IT Department for network security purposes, is prohibited.
Use of a broadcast messenger service such as "net send" to send messages over the network is prohibited except in the case of an emergency.
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