School Webmaster Support

District Web Server and Web Page Guidelines

Last Revised: Monday, April 10, 2006
Author: Chris Kenniburg, web master

Web Server Guidelines

• The Dearborn School District web server is a shared resource to support curriculum, instruction, and communication.

• District staff members are encouraged to use the server to publish material that enhances student learning and parent involvement.

• Every Dearborn school has a dedicated web site on the web server.

• Every Dearborn school has a technology team to coordinate technology programs in the building.

• Tech teams may include at least one administrator, computer/educational technology curriculum committee representative, media specialist and other interested teachers from a variety of grades and departments and parent/community members.

• To facilitate publishing on the web site, the school tech team will identify a staff member to be the web master for that school.

• Every staff member has access to publish material on the web server.

• The use of district web servers is a privilege and can be revoked at any time.

Web Page Guidelines

The school home page must include at the top of the page:

• Dearborn Public Schools,

• the DPS logo,

• a link back to the district home page

• The legal school name, school address, and office phone number

• Principal’s name and district email address

Teacher Pages must include at the top of the page:

• The legal school name, school address, and office phone number

• Name of the teacher and district email address

• Credits or bibliography of external resources

• Date last updated

Staff members are responsible for:

• Content, including spelling, grammar, images, multimedia,accuracy, and currency of information.

• Outdated information and pages will be removed without notice from the server.

• Students can create content to be published only under the supervision of a staff member.

• Students may not share username/passwords to gain publishing privileges.

• Advertising for personal or commercial purposes is prohibited.

• Web pages may not contain a student or staff member’s personal contact information such as personal email or home phone/address.

• Your district email is not your personal email.

• Elementary students may not have their last name published.

• All web pages must conform to accepted community values. Language, pictures, music, or symbols that are obscene, libelous, or offensive to good taste is prohibited.
  School publications/productions shall not endorse any candidate for public office or take a political stand on any issue.

• Use of external web hosting/publishing products is prohibited unless approved through the district web master.

• All material to be published is subject to review by the principal and/or district web master. The district web master with Superintendent approval is the final authority in matters of web page content for any page hosted on district servers.

Teacher Leader Page

Computer & Educational Technology

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User-Friendly Teacher Web Pages:

• Do not force the reader to scroll down very far

• Use graphics to illustrate their message

• Limit the animated graphics to a chosen few for emphasis only

• Are current and up to date

• Link only to pages with useful information

• Do not actively link to pages under construction

• Warn about PDF or MS Word format

• Open PDF or MS Word in a new page

• Open external links in a new page

• Paste short articles on to a fast loading web page instead of linking to a document in PDF or Word

• Make links to printable PDF versions of longer pages available

• Contain no broken links

• Contain a back to School Home Page link

• Use word art for headlines and impact

• Credit clip art and images