Dragon Acceptable Use Policy

The Dragon at the University of Southern Mississippi is provided by Dr. Steve Yuen at the Department of Technology Education for the use of USM students, faculty and staff in support of the Instructional Technology program in the Department of Technology Education. All students, faculty and staff are responsible for seeing that the Dragon is used in an effective, efficient, ethical, and lawful manner. The following policies are promulgated to help clarify this use.

1. Dragon is owned by the University of Southern Mississippi and is intended to assist in education and research. The operators of this system reserve the right to deny service to users who do not abide by this policy.
2. Dragon accounts are owned by the University of the Southern Mississippi. All access to Dragon must be approved through Dr. Steve Yuen.
3. Dragon accounts are to be used for educational and research purposes. Commercial use of your account is not acceptable.
4. An account assigned to an individual must not be used by others without explicit permission of Dr. Steve Yuen. The individual account owner is responsible for the proper use of the account, including proper password protection.
5. Programs and files are confidential unless they have explicitly been made available to other authorized individuals. Users should not obtain copies of, modify or delete files, tapes, passwords, or any type of data or programs belonging to other users unless specifically authorized by the owner to do so.
6. Electronic communications facilities (such as Email, INTERNET, and Usenet) should not be used for fraudulent, harassing, or obscene messages.
7. Users are expect to use personal World Wide Web pages efficiently and responsibly.
8. Users are expected to cooperate with the system operators and other users to maximize the use of this system. Users are expected to refrain from activity which might jeopardize the normal, secure operation of this system.
9. Users should respect system integrity and resources by not developing or executing programs that could harass other users, degrade performance, or damage software or hardware components. Users should also share resources in an equitable manner and respect proctors and consultants.

An individual's computer use privileges may be suspended immediately upon the discovery of a possible violation of any of these policies. Any suspected violation may be confidentially reported to the appropriate faculty, supervisors, department chair persons, or Vice Presidents.