Policy and Procedure Guidelines:

A. Introduction.

The purpose of this policy is to establish criteria for access to and use of Course Management Systems hosted at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The Boulder Campus Course Management System provides content delivery and course management tools to University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder) educators (faculty, staff, librarians, and teaching assistants).

B. Policy

1. Scope of Policy
   This policy will apply to all Course Management Systems maintained by ITS; all courses hosted on one of these systems; all educators (faculty, staff, librarians, and teaching assistants) who use the system to deliver content and manage a course and all students who participate in a course through the system.
2. Policy
   Course Management Systems at the University of Colorado at Boulder will be managed and used in such away as to maximize the benefit of the system for members of the Boulder Campus Community, facilitate the manner in which educators teach and students learn, and protect the content produced by the educators and the privacy of students’ personal and academic information.
   1. All educators and students who intend to use a Boulder Campus Course Management System must be so affiliated with or sponsored by someone who is so affiliated with the University of Colorado at Boulder as to be eligible to acquire an IdentiKey Account. The IdentiKey is a network authorization tool that consists of a CU Boulder login name and password.
   2. Educators are responsible for adherence to all applicable federal/state laws and University policies such as but not limited to those addressing copyright, web accessibility, FERPA, HIPPA and use of CU-Boulder's Computing and Network Resources.
   3. Students are responsible for adherence to all applicable federal/state laws and University policies such as but not limited to those addressing copyright, web accessibility, University Code of Conduct, Student Honor Code Policy and use of CU-Boulder's Computing and Network Resources.
   4. Educators are responsible for maintaining their own instructional content. This includes but is not limited to archiving course content for future use.

C. References

1. Policies
   Intellectual Property that is Educational Materials
   www.cu.edu/policies/Academic/IP_edmat.html
   Student Rights to Privacy of Education Records
   www.cu.edu/policies/Academic/studentrights.html
   Guidelines for the Release of Student Information Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA)
   registrar.colorado.edu/FacStaff/privacy.htm
   Web Publishing Policy
   www.colorado.edu/policies/webpolicy.html
   Use of CU-Boulder's Computing and Network Resources
   www.colorado.edu/policies/cnr/index.html
   Student Classroom and Course-Related Behavior
   www.colorado.edu/policies/classbehavior.html
   University Code of Conduct
   www.colorado.edu/studentaffairs/judicialaffairs/code.html
   Student Honor Code Policy
   www.colorado.edu/policies/honor.html
   IT Service Center-Supported Hardware and Software
   www.colorado.edu/ITS/docs/standards.html
   ITS Access and Authorization Policy
   www.colorado.edu/ITS/security/ITSAccessAuthPolicy.doc