COMPUTER USER POLICY

• Abandoned Laptop Warning 3: If a student needs to reclaim a laptop a third time, they will be fined $100. This must be paid before the laptop is returned. This is a penalty for lack of care and control of their laptop. The parents, advisor, and the Assistant Head of

School, Director of Upper School, will be notified. Payment can be made through the

Business Office. Once the fee is paid, the Business Office will notify the IT Desk. The student must then arrange for their advisor and a parent or Assistant Head of School,

Director of Upper School to accompany them to the IT Desk. A member of the SAS staff can stand in for one of the two adults required. The parents, advisor, and the Assistant

Head of School, Director of Upper School, will be notified. - The student will receive a disciplinary response - $100 fine must be paid before the laptop is returned - Abandoned Laptop Warnings are set back to zero

Classrooms: If a student leaves a classroom for a lengthy period, the laptop must be taken with them. A teacher may allow students to leave laptops in a locked classroom at special times throughout the school year.

Take It Home: Lockers are not to be used to store laptops overnight, on weekends, or on holidays. If it becomes known laptops are being left in lockers during unsupervised times, this creates a fire/security/theft issue.

Sports Travel: Laptops can be taken on sporting trips at the coach's discretion. Students will be informed whether the bus will be a secure environment to leave their laptops while participating in competitions.

School Travel: Laptops can be taken on academic and co-curricular trips at the discretion of the teacher organizing the trip. Students will be informed about reducing the risk of loss or theft while travelling.

Academic Use First: Academic use of laptops must always take priority over recreational use. Students are not permitted to game or watch movies, videos, or television shows during the academic day. Additionally, students are not permitted to record audio or video of anyone without express permission, including students and staff. Each student is given an administrator equivalent user account on their laptop. Students can lose this privilege after three Computer Misconduct Warnings or at the school’s or parent’s discretion.

Copyrighted Software and Digital Media: When allowed, students should only be playing games, using software, listening to music, and watching videos, movies, and TV shows for which they have a legal right to do so.

Content Restrictions: Students cannot install on their computers or share or distribute files, videos, or documents that offend community standards, break laws, compromise computer security, or violate academic policies. Files may be in executable text, sound, images, photographic, or video format. Here is a list of content students cannot have on their computers:

• Pornography in the form of images, videos, or cartoons. • Music that offends community standards on issues such as swearing, promotion of drug use, racism, etc. • Hacking utilities that may be used to compromise the school’s network security, such as port scanners, key loggers, password crackers, decompilers, network administration tools, sniffers, tracers, protocol analyzers, proxies, VPNs, etc.