The College also recognises that electronic information research skills are now required as essential knowledge for members of our society and as future employees. In responding to these changes the College actively supports access by students to the widest variety of information resources together with the development, by staff, of appropriate skills to analyse and evaluate such resources. Access to telecommunications will enable students to explore thousands of libraries, databases, the Internet and bulletin boards while exchanging messages with people throughout the world. The College believes that the benefits to students from being able to access and retrieve information from these resources and the opportunities this provides for collaboration, exceed the disadvantages. However, access is a privilege and not a right.
Access entails responsibility.
The Role of Students Students are responsible for good behaviour on school computer networks as detailed in the College's Student Code of Conduct relating to general school behaviour. Communications on the information networks are often public in nature and general College rules for student behaviour, conduct and standards of communications will apply. Individual users of the College computer networks are responsible for their behaviour and communications over those networks. It is presumed that users will comply with College standards and will honour the agreements they have signed. The Role of Parents Parents and guardians are ultimately responsible for setting and conveying the standards that their children should follow when using media and information sources.