Technology
Cardinal Stritch Catholic High School & Academy respects the natural desire of all persons for privacy in their network use and preserves this privacy whenever possible. The operational and security needs of the network require that full access be available to Cardinal Stritch personnel. Cardinal Stritch reserves the right to access and/or inspect any computer, device, and/or electronic media within its system and any data, information, and/or messages, which may be contained therein. All such data, information, and email messages are subject to public records law and remain the property of the Cardinal Stritch Catholic High School & Academy.
Access to all workstations requires a unique user account. Users are responsible for the proper use of the account. Passwords are required and users should change the passwords frequently. Users shall use the network only under their own account name and should keep all account names and passwords private. Equipment and the network shall be used only for educational purposes or for the administration of Cardinal Stritch.
The following expectations, guidelines, and procedures apply to Cardinal Stritch Catholic High School & Academy students and staff. Users agree to comply with the following policy when they use school devices and/or access to the network.
- Users shall not:
- use the network for commercial, political, and/or illegal activities;
- use the network to encourage or promote the use of drugs, alcohol, or tobacco, or other unethical practices;
- transmit profane, obscene, or offensive language;
- transmit threatening, obscene, disruptive, or sexually explicit materials; nor
- transmit materials that harass or disparage others based on race, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or political beliefs.
- Users shall not disrupt use of the network by other users by creating/deploying viruses or malicious software, attempting to access unauthorized files, or modifying files and data which do not belong to that user.
- Users shall not attempt to disrupt other users’ ability to send or receive email. Users shall not attempt to read, delete, copy, modify, and/or forge other users’ email. Student users shall not access outside private/personal email accounts (AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.).
- Users shall not attempt to defeat any security features of the network or account restrictions with Proxies, VPN connections, bypass routes, clone URLs, etc.
- Users shall not connect personal devices (gaming consoles, personal computers, phones, etc.) to the network. Cardinal Stritch holds no responsibility for personal devices that connect to the network.
- Users shall not connect outside equipment (routers, modems, wireless equipment, and managed switches) to the network. Cardinal Stritch holds no responsibility for outside equipment that is connected to the network.
- Users shall not install applications/software on workstations. Applications/software are limited to what is necessary to conduct academic and/or business functions.
- Users shall not download/store copyrighted materials on workstations or school devices. This includes copyrighted software, text, audio, video files, video games, etc.
Users violate this policy by their own actions, failing to report violations by other users to a teacher or other staff member as soon as possible, or allowing other users (including users whose access has been denied or terminated) to use their account/password to use the network. Violations of this policy can lead to disciplinary actions by the school and/or loss of technology related privileges.