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Student Online Privacy Notice |
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Participating in an online course requires you to be able to send and receive e-mail. Your instructor must be able to correspond with you through e-mail and may require you to communicate with your classmates through e-mail. By enrolling in an online course, you are granting the instructor permission to post your name and e-mail address on the course website or otherwise distribute that information to other students in the class.
To participate in an online course, you need only provide a working e-mail address. It doesn't have to be the address assigned to you by Boise State University, nor does it have to be the primary address assigned by your Internet Service Provider.
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Information in electronic form is easily reproduced and easily distributed. For this reason, you should keep in mind that information you share in e-mail correspondence, discussion forums, or web pages could be distributed in ways you did not intend. For instance, if you disclose your home phone number in an online discussion, another student could copy that phone number and distribute it to others outside the class. Likewise, if you use a discussion forum or e-mail to relate a personal experience to your classmates, expecting it to remain private, it could be copied and distributed to others outside that group. Therefore, you should exercise caution in sharing information you would not want made public.
| Information About You |
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With few exceptions, anytime you connect to a computer network information about you is collected. If you go to the Boise State web site, for instance, software will automatically log your Internet Protocol address and the date and time that you accessed the site. If you are enrolled in a course that uses Blackboard course-management software, your use of the Blackboard course web site is also logged. Your instructor and Blackboard administrators have access to such information as the number of times you logged onto the site, the areas you visited, and the dates and times that you visited them.
This information may be used in a variety of ways. One common way is to assist the instructor in making the course web site easier to use or more useful to students; if students aren't using certain features or visiting certain areas, the instructor can ask why and modify the site accordingly. Another common use of this information is to measure and grade your participation in class, perhaps by analyzing the amount of time you've spent in certain areas of the site or by analyzing the quantity and quality of your contributions to online discussions.
| Acceptable Use, Online Behavior, and Academic Honesty |
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In many respects, an online class is no different from a traditional class. In both kinds of classes, you are expected to abide by the University's policies on conduct and academic honesty. Therefore, you should familiarize yourself with the Student Code of Conduct and the University's policy on the use of technology.
Communicating and interacting with your instructor and classmates in an online course is quite different from communicating and interacting in a traditional class. For this reason, you should also familiarize yourself with accepted conventions of online behavior (often referred to as Netiquette). Guides to online behavior can be found at the Netiquette Home Page and in Arlene H. Rinaldi's User Guidelines and Netiquette.
| Publication and Distribution of Your Work |
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Many times, an instructor will publish or distribute student work to provide an example of a particular approach to an assignment, an example of outstanding work, or an example of creative thinking. By enrolling in an online course, you are granting your instructor permission to distribute your work to others in the course. For example, your instructor may choose to publish your work on the course web site or distribute your work in an e-mail sent to all students in the class.
In general, the University recommends that instructors publish and distribute student work only during the semester in which the student is enrolled in the course. After that, the instructor should obtain written permission from the student before publishing or distributing the work. Federal law prohibits instructors from publishing or distributing graded work if the grade is visible, unless the identity of the student is kept confidential.
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