Student Use of the iPad
1. The iPad is the property of the Culver Community Schools Corporation and as a result may be seized and reviewed at any time. The student should have NO expectation of privacy of materials found on an iPad or a school supplied or supported email service.
2. The Culver Community Schools Corporation iPad is the only approved personal computer allowed. All other computers are not allowed and are subject to seizure.
3. The iPad comes equipped with both a front and rear-facing camera and video capacities. As with all recording devices, it is best practice and common courtesy to ask permission before recording an individual, or group. All Culver Community Schools are closed campuses, with the Culver Community
4. Schools Corporation retaining the rights concerning any recording and/or publishing of any student or staff member’s work or image. Students must obtain school permission to publish a photograph or video of any school related activity.
5. Students are responsible for bringing their iPad to school every day, unless otherwise directed by a staff member. Failure to bring an iPad, or any other class material(s), does not release the student from their responsibility for class work. If a student repeatedly fails to bring materials to class, including an iPad, the student will be subject to disciplinary action.
6. The student shall bring their iPad to school fully charged. A student's repeated failure to charge his/her iPad may result in disciplinary action.
7. While personalized screensavers or backgrounds are permitted, inappropriate or provocative images including but not limited to pornographic images, guns, weapons, inappropriate language, threatening language, drug, alcohol, or gang related images are not permitted and subject to disciplinary action.
8. A student may download music with the permission of a staff member.
9. Games, music, videos, and sound use will be at the discretion of the classroom teacher and building administrator.
10. The iPad affords limited electronic storage space. As with all electronic files, it is good practice to back up, duplicate, or archive files to an independent storage space.
11. The Culver Community Schools Corporation iPad is designed as a tool for school work; any uses of the iPad should be limited to school activities.
12. All students should recognize and guard their personal and private information. While on the Internet, students shall not reveal personal information, including a home address or phone number, or the address or phone numbers of other students.
13. Culver Community Schools Corporation encourages students to take their iPad home at night for class work and recharging. All the rules and regulations that are in effect during the school day extend to the use of the iPad at home.
14. Culver Community Schools Corporation makes no guarantee, written or implied, that materials on the iPad, including student work, will be safe from deletion or corruption, accidental or otherwise.
Parents' Guide to Student Use
Culver Community Schools Corporation recognizes that with new technologies comes new challenges to both teachers and parents. Below is a series of suggestions drawn from a wide variety of professional sources that may aid you, the parent, in effectively guiding your child’s use of the iPad.
1. Take extra steps to protect your child. Encourage your child to use and store the iPad in an open area of your home, such as the kitchen or family room, so you can monitor what your child is doing online.
2. Use the Internet with your child to help develop safe surfing habits. Children often model adult behavior.
3. Go where your child goes online. Monitor the places that your child visits. Let your child know that you're there, and help teach her/him how to act as s/he works and socializes online.
4. Review your child’s friends list. You may want to limit your child’s online “friends” to people your child actually knows and is working with in real life.
5. Understand sites' privacy policies. Internet sites should spell out your rights to review and delete your child’s information.
6. Limit the time your student is on the iPad. While the iPad is a very engaging device, it is a school work device. Care and constant monitoring will reduce your child’s exposure to excessive use.
7. Report unwelcome or malicious online threats. Report in a timely fashion to the school any online interactions that can be considered threatening.
8. Help your child develop a routine. Many parents have found success by helping create a routine for their child’s computer use. Define a routine as to how the iPad is cared for and when and where its use is appropriate.
9. Take a look at the apps or programs. It is to the advantage of the students, parents, and school that the parents have a working understanding of the programs and student work found on the iPad.
10. Read and share with your child the Culver Community iPad care and use policies. By reading and discussing the care and use policies, you can create a clear set of expectations and limitations for your child.
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