Student Handbook 2024-25

education by providing access to unique resources along with the opportunity for collaborative work. 2. It is the expectation that all students of the computer rooms / labs will be courteous of others when viewing materials that may be offensive to some individuals. Anyone viewing questionable images in a manner that offends others shall be asked to close the offending site. Any subsequent viewing of possibly offensive sites and/or images by said user will result in the loss of their computer room / lab privileges. 3. Use of Beacon College internet access must be for academic activities consistent with the educational objectives of Beacon College. Use of other organization’s network or computing resources must comply with the rules appropriate for that federal or state regulation or such use is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyright materials, threatening or obscene materials, or material protected by trade secrets. Use for commercial activities is not acceptable. Use for product advertisement or political lobbying is also prohibited. 4. Beacon College reserves the right to limit internet access to web addresses containing resources deemed to be unsafe, inappropriate or noncompliant with policy aforementioned in subsection (3) of the Internet Usage Policy. 5. In times of high network activity, Beacon College reserves the right to throttle a student’s personal internet connection on Beacon College’s network in order to ensure proper business operations. Network connections will be throttled through Quality-of-Service measures that are determined by bandwidth usage (Mbits/sec) and total connection payload (TB/semester). 6. In addition, those found to violate these policies may have internet access privileges to personal devices be temporarily or permanently revoked as a disciplinary action and security measure.

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