Immanuel Lutheran College is committed to providing a distinctive Christian education based on the unconditional love of Jesus Christ. All members of the school community are challenged to grow in their lives in Christ, as they seek to fulfil their vocations.
Preamble
Access to the Internet is provided solely for the purposes of educational research and learning. The purpose of this policy is to provide rules for appropriate use of the Internet. Could students and parents please carefully read the following agreement.
Student Agreement
I understand that access to the Internet from Immanuel Lutheran College must be in support of educational research or learning, and I agree to the following:
- I will refrain from accessing any newsgroups, links, listservs, web pages or other areas of cyberspace that would be considered offensive in the judgment of the school Principal or his delegate because of pornographic, racist, violent, illegal, illicit or other content.
- Accordingly, I am responsible for monitoring and appropriately rejecting material, links, dialogues and information accessed/received by me.
- I will not use valuable Internet time inappropriately (e.g. playing games, for commercial purposes, for political purposes).
- I will be courteous and use appropriate language. Therefore I will refrain from using obscene, harassing or abusive language and will report any cases of such usage against me to a member of Immanuel staff.
- I understand that I may be subject to the 'Acceptable Use Policy' of any other network accessed whilst on the Internet.
- I accept responsibility to keep copyrighted material from entering the school. Therefore I will not download software, games, music, graphics, videos or text materials that are copyrighted. I will not violate any copyright laws by posting or distributing copyrighted material.
- Plagiarism is unacceptable. Therefore I will use any downloaded material in an appropriate manner in assignments, listing its source in a bibliography and clearly specifying any directly quoted material.
- I will not reveal personal information including names, addresses, credit card details and telephone numbers of myself or others.
- I will not damage computers, computer systems or networks. This includes the intentional introduction of viruses and corruption of system and other files. Furthermore, if I discover any methods of causing such methods I will report them to a member of the Immanuel Lutheran College staff and I will not demonstrate them to others.
- I will abide by the current sign-on procedures for access to the computer network.
- If I violate any of the terms of this agreement, I will be denied access to the Internet for a time to be determined by the Principal and may face further disciplinary action as determined by the Principal. I am aware that each case will be considered on its merits.
- I will abide by the rules of the Information Technology area of the school. These rules are clearly displayed in the Technology rooms.
Parental Agreement
As the parent/guardian of this student, I hereby acknowledge that I have read the agreement on student use of the Internet and discussed it with my child. I understand that this access is designed for educational purposes. I recognise that, while every effort will be made to monitor student use of the Internet, it is impossible for Immanuel Lutheran College to continually monitor and restrict access to all controversial materials. I further acknowledge that, while questionable material exists on the net, the user must actively seek it and therefore is ultimately responsible for bringing such material into the school. I therefore do not hold the staff or Principal of Immanuel Lutheran College responsible for any such materials acquired from the Internet.
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