Whitehorse Policies Quiz

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1. The following is true about personal (non-school) email accounts held by students:
Students are allowed to check their personal email at school any time.
Students may never check their personal email at school.
Students must check their email every day before school starts.
Students may check their personal email with an academic reason and permission from a teacher.

2. Which of the following is true about student ids and passwords?
Students can switch ids and passwords each week.
Students may not let other students use their id and password.
Students should wear a sign that states their id number and password.
Students should never use their id and password to log in.

3. Which of the following is true about chat rooms at school?
Chat rooms are allowed at school because of their academic content.
What you read in a chat room can be predicted months in advance.
You can be assured that you will never see profanity in a chat room.
Chat rooms are not allowed at school.

4. Which of the following is true about using our network at school?
It's okay to download software from the internet.
You should log off your computer before leaving the room.
Viruses make our network much easier to use.
It doesn't matter how you log in to a computer.

5. If you see someone going to a site that is inappropriate for school, you should:
Go to the same site to see what's so good about it.
Tell an adult.
Let everyone else in the class know about the site so they can check it out.
Shout out that someone is in an inappropriate site.

6. Which of the following is not true about internet use at Whitehorse:
Students need a permission slip to use the Internet at Whitehorse.
If your parents do not want you to use the Internet at school, they have to sign a paper saying they deny you permission.
Students need to sign a contract agreeing to appropriate behavior when using the Internet
The Internet is available in the LMC, computer lab, and in classrooms.

7. Which of the following is true about copyright and the Internet:
Students can copy any graphics or text from the Internet to hand in as their own work.
Students may not request permission from a webmaster to use text or graphics they've found.
Students can use text or graphics from the Internet as long as they give credit to their source.
Students should not use any information from the Internet because it's stealing.

8. If a student doesn't think the information in a website is true:
Write to the webmaster and tell them they're stupid.
Tell your teacher the webmaster is an idiot.
Call the police; it's illegal to post inaccurate information on the Internet.
Write to the webmaster and ask them where they got their information.

9. The following is true about the Internet:
Everything you read on the Internet is true.
Some information found on the Internet is more likely to be true than other information.
The Internet is better than books.
The Internet is only accessible in the United States.

10. Which of the following is not true about discipline and the Internet at Whitehorse:
If you go to inappropriate websites, you may be banned from using the Internet at school.
You can access any sites you want to at Whitehorse without getting in trouble.
Teachers can track the sites you have visited even after you log off the computer.
You won't get in trouble if you get to an inappropriate website by mistake.

11. It is okay for kids to post their names and pictures on a website.
True
False

12. It is not safe for kids to give personal information on a website or in a chatroom or using IM.
True
False

13. What is personal information?.
Your name, address, phone number, a picture of yourself, information about your schedule, what school you go to, what you look like, etc.
Your favorite band, what you ate for breakfast, your best subject in school, etc.

14. Why do teachers and other adults want you to be smart about using the internet?
Adults are nosy and they don't know what they're talking about
Adults want kids to be safe and they don't want kids to give information that could end up hurting them.

15. Your school email account is private. You can use it to write anything you want to anyone whenever you want to.
True
False


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Updated 4/27/05