Instructional Technology Committee
WEB SITE POLICY
PURPOSE
The purpose of the Los Angeles City College (LACC) web presence is to provide
information via the Internet about the college's mission, academic and
vocational programs, course offerings, specially funded programs, and student
services to those interested in learning more about the college. Certain parts
of the site may contain information and services intended to support distance
learning and technology-enhanced learning. The primary site and departmental
sites within the primary site shall reflect positively the image of integrity
and quality to which the college adheres.
MANAGEMENT
The operation of the site equipment and software is the sole responsibility of
the Dean, Educational Technology. In cooperation, the Dean, Educational
Technology manages the operation of the physical resources in the academic
computing area, and Department Chairs or designee, under direct supervision of
the chair who is responsible for the department web site, shall have access to
department web sites to monitor, update, and make changes in the content of
department web pages. The Marketing Director shall oversee the content of the
site's pages according to these guidelines and policies. Final authority over
content lies with the college president.
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In addition, other individuals may be involved in the routine maintenance of site contents. These are: |
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Individual faculty who maintain their own sub-sites for the support of
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Staff or faculty who maintain sub-sites for
offices or programs that is an official part of the offerings of the college.
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Faculty who maintain sub-sites on servers for the display of student
creative work and for teaching world-wide web and Internet skills and
technologies, when such work is part of the educational programs of the
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In all
cases above, the site contents shall be subject to the policies stated herein,
and the college president shall have final authority of these contents.
With a single exception,
the copyrights of all contents of the LACC web sites residing on the LACC
servers and infrastructure belong to the college. No individual may state
ownership of copyright for any of the artwork, graphics, textual content,
programming, or other aspects of the visible or audible results of selecting
the site via the Internet or on-campus systems.
The sole exception is in
the case of the creative work of individual faculty members, individual
classified staff, and individual students, which would be considered that
individual's intellectual property. This includes artwork, programming, textual
matter, animation, music or demonstration material created by the individual
for the purpose of supporting teaching efforts, or as a means of display of
student work which is the product of class activity. In this case, the
individual retains copyright, and may so indicate with an appropriate notice.
In a case where by
hyperlink or other means an LACC site contains references to or incorporates
material of any kind, remote from LACC, copyrighted by others not related to
LACC:
1. Permission to use the material
must be obtained in writing from the copyright source, and filed with the Dean,
Educational Technology and the Vice President of Academic Affairs (if it
applies to an academic department) or the appropriate Vice President (if it
applies to non-teaching faculty.
This requirement for
permission does not apply to information linked to another site.
2. A copyright notice must
be included in any location on an LACC web site where this material is
displayed.
The issue of copyright may
be affected by collective bargaining agreement and this document will be
updated accordingly.
STUDENT USE OF
THE SITE
Students are expected to use the site contents to enhance their learning
efforts, communicate with instructors and offices of the college, and to explore
the Internet as may be needed to participate in the college's academic and
vocational programs. The Dean, Educational Technology maintains servers for the
purpose of loading and display of work done by students such as hypertext
pages, graphics, text, and programming created in the course of the students'
participation in regular classes. Such use is subject to the following:
A faculty member to ensure
that they are following standard guidelines will monitor the operation of the
student server. This faculty member works in cooperation with TSS to ensure
that such operations do not negatively affect the overall operation of the LACC
site.
Students may load their
work onto, and communicate with, normal Internet protocols as required to
fulfill their coursework obligations.
The involved faculty will
monitor the use of the system by students and ensure that they are following
standard guidelines for system operations and communications. Further, the
faculty member will ensure that the contents of the sites are within the
guidelines set forth below, and do not contain any material that may be
considered offensive or inappropriate to the college's site.
Students are obliged to
adhere to the laws of copyright and the policies stated above. Students are strictly
forbidden to obtain and install on the
The college agrees that
student work is just that, and makes no claim to the contents of the work
installed on student servers. At the same time, the student agrees that,
according to stated policy, the copyright of all contents for any college site
server belongs to the college, with the exception as noted above in which a
student's intellectual property may be showcased as part of a classroom
activity.
The use of servers provided
for student classroom support is short-term. At the end of a class period, such
as the end of a semester or teaching cycle, the material will be removed from
the server and access to the server for individual students will be removed.
In all cases, the college
president has final authority over contents and operation of the college
resources.
COMMERCIAL USE
OF THE SITE
The site is maintained as an information source and as a communication medium
only for students, faculty and staff. It does not provide a commercial
presence; solicit any product or service of a commercial nature, nor the
services of individuals or any other for-profit or for-marketing entity.
REVIEW OF WEB
SITE CONTENTS
Web site authors will adhere to the guidelines and policies stated herein.
Academic and non-academic
departments that have a web site on the college server will maintain it by
periodically inspecting the sites to ensure that the information is up-to-date,
accurate, and the site maintains compliance with
All campus web pages will
be reviewed annually each fall by the Instructional Technology Committee
(ITC). A report will be made to the
department chair or manager at the October.
Those departments with web pages that do not adhere to the guidelines
and policies will be given 30 days to correct and update. After 30 days, if left uncorrected, the
site/pages and links to pages will be removed.
Should the responsible
parties wish to appeal a correction notice or removal of site contents, they
may submit such an appeal in writing to the Dean, Educational Technology for
referral to the Instructional Technology Committee. The committee will review
the pertinent facts and return a decision, which may include instructions for
modification of the site. Such review and instructions will occur in a timely
manner. Should the responsible parties wish to appeal the decision and/or
directions of the Instructional Technology Committee, they may submit an appeal
in writing to the college President who has final authority on web site
contents. The decision of the President is final.
Los Angeles City College
makes reasonable effort to ensure that the content of servers provided by the
college are used in the best interests of the college and its programs, and are
not intentionally offensive to the average user. However,
GUIDELINES
The purpose of the LACC web site is to
inform, educate, and provide a means of communication between students,
faculty, staff, and prospective students. Accordingly, the contents of the site
follow these points:
1.
Web
pages must contain a to return to the main LACC home page
2.
Web
pages must contain the of the last revision of the
page.
3.
To
ensure the most up-to-date information, web pages that provide the reader with
information on course offerings or descriptions should provide links to the
online schedule and catalog information rather than duplicating it.
4. To protect the academic content and
intellectual property of the faculty and to provide for copyright safeguards,
access to course web sites shall be limited to enrolled students. Access shall
require a password.
5. Materials on the web sites should
comply with the recommendations contained in "Distance Education: Access
Guidelines for Students with Disabilities", August 1999 provided by the
State Chancellor's Office. Click
here to access the document.
DRAFT - Policies and
Guidelines for the Use of the LACC Web Site November 29, 1999
Revised 1/10/00, reviewed 2/10/00, revised 2/22/00, revised 3/15/00, 8/30/00,
revised 11/8/00, revised 10/16/03.3/26/2004, 5/4/2005