5/9/ 11 Acceptable Use Policy: What happened Next.

(This post dates back to September 2011)

As part of our overhaul of the School’s ICT strategy to include mobile deviceswe totally revised the Old Testament AUP policy which was the usual set of commandments all beginning ‘Thou shalt not…”

By engaging the whole school community in what we were trying to achieve (including Staff, School Council, parents and Governors) using a mix of surveys and the School’s website to disseminate information, there was widespread awareness of the proposals. As is normal in any survey, the response rate was around 5% and some amendments were made in the light of this. The overall response in meetings and discussions was very positive as have been emails I received on the proposals. 

The new AUP is being rolled out to all students from Wednesday as a splash screen. It will form part of the annual Internet Safety lessons we run in ICT so we can deal with the queries it throws up.  Time will tell if it works!

Here's a PDF of the policy.