3.0 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY USE GUIDELINES

To ensure continued compliance with computer usage guidelines Mount Olive College designates certain personnel to investigate alleged computer abuses. The College reserves the fight to examine files in such cases.

3.1 Use of Mount Olive College Information Technology Resources and Facilities

All users (students, faculty, staff and authorized others):

• Should report any malfunction to the person on duty or to the organization responsible for the facility immediately. Do not attempt to move, repair, reconfigure, modify or attach external devices to the systems.
• Are not allowed to bring any food or drink into computing facilities.
• Are to recognize that academic use of the workstations has priority overall other uses. Recreational use in computing facilities is permitted during periods of light usage; however, you may not play games or engage in other recreational activities when others are waiting to use the workstations for academic purposes.
• Must realize that individual computing center facilities and other College facilities may post additional operational rules and restrictions that are considered part of this policy.
• Must not load any software onto any hard drive without specific prior permission of the system administrator or custodian of the files.

3. 2 Authorization and Security

For each user, authorization to computer resources includes, but is not limited to, electronic mail, administrative records, library services and departmental-specific programs. Each user:

• Must have a valid, authorized account and may only use those computer resources, which are specifically authorized.
• May only use his/her account and may in accordance with its authorized purpose.
• Is responsible for safeguarding his/her computing accounts and should change passwords often to ensure privacy and security.

3.3 Honor Code

Users:

• Must not use information technology systems to violate any rules in the Employee Handbook, Faculty and Adjunct Handbooks, the Student Handbook, or any local, state, or federal laws.
• Should disclose to the appropriate authorities misuses of the computing resources or potential loopholes in computer systems security and cooperate with the systems administrator in the investigations of abuses.  

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