Google Sites and Personal Webpages Policies
Information Technology Services (ITS) offers the ability for faculty, staff, and students to create personal webpages using Google Sites with their Google@麻豆传媒account. This article serves to inform our users of the basic policies involved in their creation and use of personal webpage.
Responsibility for Content
The content of all the personal webpages is solely the responsibility of the individual authors; 麻豆传媒Information Technology Services (ITS), the University of Hawaii (UH), and the State of Hawaii are not responsible for content posted by users to personal webpages. ITS will not monitor content except if it becomes necessary to investigate complaints or allegations that such content violates federal, state, or local laws or University of Hawaii policies.
ITS, UH, and the State of Hawaii are also not responsible for the content of every page linked from personal webpages (i.e., external links).
All policies which apply to the university's computing and network resources (including the Executive Policy 2.210 and the ) apply to the personal webpages. These shall include the following:
- No illegal material (which may include sexually explicit/offensive images or sounds, and copyrighted or licensed material)
- No pages created for commercial purposes
- No deliberate acts which waste computing resources or which unfairly monopolize resources to the exclusion of others
Any violation of these policies may result in the incident being brought before the Dean of Students, employing department, or University General Counsel for review and possible disciplinary action.
Appropriate Content
It is recommended that personal webpages be used for personal purposes. However, a user may host academic class materials or other materials/information for academic purposes if they wish. A faculty or staff member who requires functionality beyond the scope of what personal webpages offers should use departmental web space and not the personal webpage service. Faculty and staff should contact their departmental IT Specialist for web space on their official college/department site.
Mr/Ms (Over) Popularity
Because the personal wepages is a shared resource, it may be inappropriate place to offer content that is likely to attract a large volume of network traffic. ITS may investigate any pages that are generating an abnormal amount of traffic.