Encourage your students to report dead links, inactive pages, or other malfunctions in your web course. What can go wrong, generally does go wrong at the most inconvenient time. Faculty are responsible for creating a backup of their course. The server will be backed up by the Webmaster's office, but it the responsibility of the faculty to make sure that they have the most recent changes backed up to their local computer. If faculty needs help backing up their course or its content they should contact the Webmaster's office.
Faculty are responsible for monitoring virus protection software on their own computer.
Often students do not realize that they have a virus on their computer and they will send faculty members one unknowingly.