Web+Policy

**High School** Web Policy

**Goal** Arcadia high school website serves as an open forum for communication among staff, faculty, students, parents, community, and other shareholders. The website will function as an information center where each shareholder groups contribute to enhance the line of communication. **Portals** Arcadia high school website serves as a resource portal to link the district office, other schools in the district, Faculty web pages, Student Services, PTSA, Arcadia Public Library, and the City of Arcadia. **Information Center** Arcadia high school website contains school address, phone numbers, school map, bell schedule, and staff email addresses. It will also provide up-to-date information from Associated Student Body, Student Bulletin, PTSA, Booster Clubs, Music Club, Activity Calendar, and Sports Activities **Teacher Web Pages and Web 2.0** Arcadia high school website’s blog and wiki tools are to be used by the teachers and students in a curriculum setting to enhance learning. Teachers are responsible for maintaining and updating individual’s web page in the context of curricula. Teachers and students will comply by the Acceptable Use Policy when using the tools. **Maintenance, Web Governance, and Responsibility** Technical maintenance and technical changes to the website will be provided by the Information Technology department and the third party contractor, School Fusion. The responsibility of the leadership in the web governance will be placed upon the district superintendent. The principal of the school will oversee the content of the website. The principal works with each content contributing group to address cyber ethics and responsibilities. **Privacy and Security** Photographs and names of students will not be published without the consent of student and parent or guardian in written form or contract in any areas of the Arcadia high school website. **Copyright** All content of the website will be the full ownership and property of Arcadia Unified School District. No other copyrighted materials may be uploaded to the website. All content must be original, sited, and comply with copyright laws. It will be the responsibility of teachers, students and other parties to comply with the law. **Acceptable Use Policy** Acceptable Use Policy will be in a link where everyone has access to at any time. Acceptable Use Policy will be updated as needed by change in culture, time, and relevance. A web committee who will represent the shareholders will make the changes to the Acceptable Use Policy. **Discipline Matrix** Responsibility of enforcing consequences of violation to the Acceptable Use Policy will be placed to the Dean’s office. Discipline matrix developed by the deans will be published in the Student Handbook. **Design Guidelines** The web site will clearly communicate Arcadia high school’s identity by use of school colors and display of the school logo on every page. The web site will be user-friendly to meet the diverse levels of visitors and consider the use of consistency in color, fonts, layout, and ease of identifiable links through standard navigations. Each page will be clearly identified with titles and breadcrumb navigation. The Index Page will clearly display sitemap, search engine, and login option. Each page will display help option and contact information. Pages will be designed to be scannable by using effective colors, font size, and space alignment for users to identity what they are looking for quickly. The primary focus of the web site’s design will be functionality. It must be user-friendly to all visitors. The goal is to provide informative and positive experience for the users. Type in the content of your page here.