Safety Center
Digital Citizenship
The Elizabethtown Area School District community works together to promote positive digital citizenship by responsibly, safely, and lawfully using technology in the classroom to enhance instruction, creativity, and learning.
Behave ethically and respect copyright laws. Give credit where credit is due and do not post photographs or other content unless you have the legal right to do so.
Engage in appropriate online activities. Communication between students and staff should only be conducted via district email and classroom applications. Private communication via social media is discouraged. Abide by the District Acceptable Use Policy.
Act professionally. The 1st Amendment guarantees the right to free speech; however, that does not protect hateful, threatening, or deliberately untrue statements. Everyone should remember that everything posted online leaves a digital footprint that will follow you throughout your life and may be seen by future employers and educational institutions. Members of the district should realize that there is no expectation of privacy for district accounts and content is archived and may be monitored if the need arises.
Represent yourself and your school proudly. Think carefully about what you post and behave online in a way that reflects well on you as well as the district.
Safeguard your privacy and that of others. Students and staff should not take pictures of others nor post photos or videos to social media without their permission. Teachers should never post classroom photos to personal social media accounts. Periodically check the settings on your personal social media accounts to be sure you are not disclosing personal information such as phone numbers, home address, or email address. Only interact online with people you know and trust and do not share personal information with strangers.
Filtering Internet Safety
The Elizabethtown Area School District is committed to protecting students using the Internet from accessing obscene and/or pornographic material and other verbal and visual depictions deemed harmful to minors (as defined by the Children's Internet Protection Act). The district uses an internet content filter from Securly to prevent students from accessing inappropriate sites and materials. As a cloud-based web-filtering solution designed for K–12 schools in the US, the Securly filter functions both on and off campus. In other words, the same filtering measures used at school are identical to those applied when students are accessing the Internet off campus. Through this filtering approach, the district also forces the use of Google Safe Search, a feature from Google that provides an extra layer of filtering protection while using the Google Search tool.
The district network is equipped with technology screening measures that help ensure students are protected from inappropriate online content. In addition to these technology approaches, all students are educated in digital citizenship and appropriate online behavior. While the district cannot guarantee that its web filter will block all inappropriate content, it does take student online activity seriously and continues to work towards the safest online experience possible.
The following categories have been configured within Securly to filter inappropriate content: Pornography, Drugs, Gambling, Other Adult Content, Social Media, Anonymous Proxys, Chat/Messaging, Web Mail, Hate Speech, Streaming Media, and Games. Staff, students, and parents should contact the Technology Department to report any inappropriate content that may bypass the filtering system. The district monitors the use of technology; therefore, staff and students should have no expectations of privacy when using Elizabethtown Area School District equipment, applications, or resources either on or off campus.
Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA)
In order for the Elizabethtown Area School District (EASD) to provide students with the safest and most effective web-based tools/applications for learning, we abide by federal regulations that provide awareness of the following:
EASD utilizes several computer software applications and web-based services, operated not by EASD, but by third party companies. In order for our students to use these instructional programs and services, certain personal information, generally the student’s name, username or user ID, must be provided for login and access to content purposes. All of the web resources are carefully selected by EASD for their educational value and are intended to enhance the learning process.