School Webmaster Support
District Web Server and Web Page Guidelines
Last Revised: Monday, April 10, 2006
Author: Chris Kenniburg, web master
Web Server Guidelines
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The Dearborn School District web server is a shared resource to support curriculum, instruction, and communication.
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District staff members are encouraged to use the server to publish material that enhances student learning and parent involvement.
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Every Dearborn school has a dedicated web site on the web server.
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Every Dearborn school has a technology team to coordinate technology programs in the building.
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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.
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To facilitate publishing on the web site, the school tech team will identify a staff member to be the web master for that school.
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Every staff member has access to publish material on the web server.
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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:
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Dearborn Public Schools,
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the DPS logo,
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a link back to the district home page
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The legal school name, school address, and office phone number
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Principal’s name and district email address
Teacher Pages must include at the top of the page:
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The legal school name, school address, and office phone number
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Name of the teacher and district email address
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Credits or bibliography of external resources
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Date last updated
Staff members are responsible for:
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Content, including spelling, grammar, images, multimedia,accuracy, and currency of information.
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Outdated information and pages will be removed without notice from the server.
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Students can create content to be published only under the supervision of a staff member.
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Students may not share username/passwords to gain publishing privileges.
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Advertising for personal or commercial purposes is prohibited.
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Web pages may not contain a student or staff member’s personal contact information such as personal email or home phone/address.
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Your district email is not your personal email.
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Elementary students may not have their last name published.
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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.
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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.
User-Friendly Teacher Web Pages:
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Do not force the reader to scroll down very far
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Use graphics to illustrate their message
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Limit the animated graphics to a chosen few for emphasis only
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Are current and up to date
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Link only to pages with useful information
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Do not actively link to pages under construction
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Warn about PDF or MS Word format
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Open PDF or MS Word in a new page
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Open external links in a new page
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Paste short articles on to a fast loading web page instead of linking to a document in PDF or Word
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Make links to printable PDF versions of longer pages available
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Contain no broken links
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Contain a back to School Home Page link
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Use word art for headlines and impact
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Credit clip art and images
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