ECC Policies
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Computer Usage Policies
Engineering College Computing(ECC)
The University of Toledo
January 07, 2008
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Use of the ECC (Engineering College Computing) computing facilities, hardware and software, is restricted to current engineering students, faculty, and staff. In certain exceptional circumstances an account may be approved for others.
Accounts are assigned to a SINGLE PERSON who is responsible for ALL activities from that account.
All computer use should be consistent with the primary missions of the University, namely, education and research. Individuals are responsible for using the computing and network resources in an ethical and lawful manner. It is in the best interests of the ECC computing community to be vigilant and warn the system or network administrator of policy violations, suspicious activity or problems.
Generally, any activity that interferes with the instructional and learning process or causes harm to others or their property is unacceptable. Such activity may also violate Ohio State Law. For further information, see:
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Examples of unacceptable use (applicable to local and remote computers, networks, and users):
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- Password cracking
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Disrupting computer, server, or network operations, including, but not limited to:
- Using all of a shared resource, such as a CPU or network.
- Corrupting software or data (via virus, worm, deletion, etc.)
- Jobs which would disrupt the user of the keyboard and console of a workstation
- The write ability of a file does not confer permission to modify a file
- The readability of a file does not confer permission to read a file
- Forging the name of another user or host in electronic communications
- Illegal activities, e.g., duplicating copyrighted or licensed material unless explicitly stated to be permissible (see http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualProperty/dmcaisp.htm for information about complying with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act).
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Harassment or defamation of others via any means, including, but not limited to:
- Electronic mail or News programs
- Sending output to the display or audio output device of a computer that someone else is using
- Display of offensive material
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Inappropriate laboratory behavior includes anything which interferes with the ability of others to work in an environment conductive to education. Examples include:
- Loud conversations or music playing
- Consuming food, beverages or using tobacco products
- Damaging equipment or furniture
- Use of computer resources for commercial purposes or personal gain
- Recreational use of computers when demand is high and/or game playing at any time
- Propping doors open except when card readers are not functioning
- Leaving a computer unattended while logged in.
- Running background jobs in Unix other than at the lowest priority level.
Response to Violations
In general, the response to violations will be consistent with the severity of the violation. Breaking into accounts, password cracking and intentionally or repeatedly disrupting service will result in account invalidation followed by removal. Furthermore, the University and law enforcement agencies investigate reports of these activities and perpetrators are prosecuted under the law, under University judicial processes, or both.
Only one permanent account will be permitted per user. Account must be periodically renewed.ECC reserves the right to refuse or withdraw access to its computing and network resources at any time due to conditions which may warrant such action.
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Passwords
It is the responsibility of the user to whom the account is issued to keep his/her password secret. Furthermore, each user should change their passwords often, at least every few months. For further information concerning changing passwords, see
http://www.eng.utoledo.edu/ecc/info/faqs/passwd_change.html
Backups
Although user accounts are backed up, ECC does not guarantee the availability of files -- if you consider your data precious, back up your own data.
Expiration
Student accounts expire when the student is no longer registered in the College of Engineering.
Expiration occurs at 8:00 A.M. on the day following the last day of late registration. The only exceptions to account expiration are no accounts expire over the summer and accounts do not expire for students on co-op who have officially registered with the co-op office on or before the last day of late registration. Student accounts that have expired are deleted at the time of expiration. Information stored in the account is not recoverable.
Printing
Students are allocated 2000 print quota units each term they are enrolled, accrued to a maximum of 2000 units. A print quota unit is equivalent to 1 side of monochrome printing on 8.5” x 11” paper. Each user is responsible to ensure printable material is sent to the printers. Errors in printing improper file types are at the user's expense. Because users typically attempt to print the same job several times before being convinced that the print system is malfunctioning, and because the print service has a cost to the user, all pending jobs are purged after the print service is restored. Print quota can be increased by increments of 50 units for $5.00. (This can be done with the secretary in NI 1010.) Any print quota remaining at the end of the semester, up to a maximum of 600 units, is carried forward and added to the print quota for the next semester. Print quota is carried over the summer and for any semester when a student is officially registered with the co-op office as being on co-op that semester. When a student graduates or fails to register for a Fall or Spring semester, all unused units are forfeited and there is no refund or credit for unused units.
Color Plotter
Any arguments as to whether a plot is to be considered a line plot or solid plot will be handled by the director of ECC. Only academic use of the plotter is allowed. Any hardcopy determined to be non-academic in nature will result in print quota being updated and hardcopy being destroyed. Current cost equivalent is: $0.0025/square inch for line plots, $0.015/square inch for solid plots. Unit costs are rounded down to the nearest unit (e.g. if a job adds up equating to $4.19, the cost is rounded down to $4.10 and 41 units are deducted from the user's print quota since the current cost of a unit is valued at $0.10). Plot areas are measured to the next lower quarter .inch (e.g. a plot that actually measures 20.875" x 40.3751' would be entered as 20.75 x 40.25 to the program that calculates the cost). Minimum cost is 1 unit. The owner of the account used to submit a plot job must be the same as the one who retrieves it. Any jobs left in the plotter's queue for more than 24 hours may be deleted from the queue at ECC's discretion. In general, only ECC supplied media is allowed to be used with the plotter. Requests received less than 30 minutes before the last consultant is scheduled to leave at the end of any given day may be refused. These jobs will be left in the queue until a consultant is available on their next scheduled shift. The consultants have responsibilities at the end of each day that may preclude this service.
Asset Disposal
“Current University Policy states that only the Principal Administrative Officer can authorize the disposal of a university asset. Principal Administrative Officer includes dean, director, department chair, associate vice president, vice president, president, and business manager. In order to dispose of assets, whether through recycling or surplus property auction, or transfer an asset from one department to another, the correct documentation must be completed and submitted to the Office of Property Control in RMM Resources Management. This documentation is simply the completion of a University of Toledo Equipment Management Form.”
(see http://generalaccounting.utoledo.edu/EquipmentDisposal.asp for information)
Surveillance Video Policy
Lost or possibly stolen items: All other means of recovery must be attempted before video review will be considered.
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