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employee work performance or student academic responsibilities. Employees must
adhere to College policies. Students must adhere to policies set forth by their
instructors. Employees and students must ensure that their social networking
conduct is consistent with all policies contained in the BC3 Student and Employee
Handbooks and the Acceptable Use of Technology Policy and the Mobile Device
Usage Policy.
5. For student identity verification purposes, the BC3 student identification photo
will be available for view by College Administrators, Staff, and Faculty.
D
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General Computer Usage
BC3 technology and networks support the College’s
Mission, a student-centered learning environment, and provide resources and effective
communication for students and employees. The information systems and networks
provided must be reliable and secure. Students/employees have no reasonable
expectations of privacy when using BC3 information systems and networks.
E
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Email Guidelines
Users must be aware of what is acceptable and unacceptable use of
the email system at BC3 and any hosting email services. All messages distributed via
the BC3 email system are the property of BC3. Electronic communication is
instantaneous and permanent. Users should be cognizant of the fact that electronic
communication may be forwarded, altered, shared on electronic bulletin boards and/or
stored on network systems.
Employees and students are required to use the email address provided to them by
BC3 for all correspondence related to the College and for all course-related
correspondence between the instructors and their students. Instructors have no
responsibility to and are discouraged from accepting and/or responding to an email
sent from a student using a non-BC3 email address.
Employees and students are expected to use email with good judgment and to be
aware that email messages are not confidential and privacy cannot be guaranteed.
Students/employees have no reasonable expectations of privacy when using BC3
technology and networks. Transmitting any identifiable student information via email,
including grades, may violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
(FERPA). Instructors must disseminate grades using a secure website such as
Blackboard, Colleague, and Lumens. If there is evidence that a user is not adhering to
these guidelines, BC3 reserves the right to take disciplinary action, up to and including
termination of employment, permanent student dismissal, and/or legal action.
It is strictly prohibited to:
1.
send or forward emails that are unnecessary, repetitive, or contain libelous,
defamatory, hurtful, offensive, racist or obscene remarks;
2.
send or forward emails intended to harass, intimidate, or otherwise annoy another
person;
3.
forward a message or copy a message or attachment belonging to another user
without acquiring permission from the originator first. Be aware that copyright
laws apply to all material. For example, it is inappropriate to copy any material
owned by others from any source (e.g., cartoons, photographs, articles, poems,
graphics scanned from a magazine, etc.) without permission of the owner. Users
should assume that all materials are copyrighted unless a disclaimer or waiver is
explicitly provided (This is particularly true on the World Wide Web; to include
information from some other sourc
e on a Web page, link to it, don’t copy it. In
some cases, even this action may violate copyright of licensing agreements by
enabling illegal redistribution of programs or data. If a user is unsure, ask the
owner);
4.
send unsolicited email messages or chain mail;
5.
share your BC3 provided users name and password with anyone;
