NYU Classes: Terms of Use

Title: Terms of Use for NYU Classes
Effective Date: February 11, 2012
Supersedes: January 12, 2012
Issuing Authority: Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Technology Officer for NYU-New York
Responsible Officer: Associate Vice President, .edu Services

Service Description

NYU Classes is NYU's instance of Sakai CLE 2.8.1, an environment for teaching and learning that is grounded in collaboration and open sharing of knowledge. For more information on Sakai CLE, please see the Sakai Project's website.

The NYU Classes online learning system enables NYU faculty to use the Web to enhance classroom instruction. Instructors can use NYU Classes to create full-featured, online course environments for the members of their class to provide content sharing, collaborative capabilities, assignment and other assessment tools, as well as Gradebook functionality.

Eligibility

NYU Classes is available only to University faculty, Teaching Assistants, staff, administrators, and students with a current, active NetID. Please use the Ask ITS Contact form if you have questions about your eligibility.

General Terms

This Terms of Use document explains the terms of service and user obligations for NYU Classes. NYU expects that NYU Classes users will employ reasonable and appropriate safeguards concerning the information and content they transmit and store. In all instances, this Terms of Use augments and reinforces (1) all federal, New York State, local, and other applicable law; (2) all University rules and policies, including the Policy on Responsible Use of NYU Computers and Data and the Policy on the Appropriate Use of E-mail at New York University (see ITS Policies & Guidance) as well as other applicable University policies; and (3) all applicable contracts and licenses. Violations of these Terms of Use may result in loss of privileges or disciplinary action.

NYU may add or delete NYU Classes service offerings from time to time and reserves the right to change,
at any time, at its sole discretion, the provisions of the service and these Terms of Use.

In order to use NYU Classes as provided to NYU, all users must be aware of, agree to, and adhere to the
following:

1. When utilizing the NYU Classes, you are bound by NYU's Policy on Responsible Use of NYU
   Computers and Data.
2. As stated in the Policy on Responsible Use of NYU Computers and Data, anyone in the NYU community utilizing NYU Classes acknowledges that NYU has the authority to monitor, use, or disclose their data under appropriate circumstances. Any access to information stored on your account will follow the standards established in the current University practice which can be found at ITS Policies & Guidance.
3. All materials entered into NYU Classes must comply with federal copyright law and NYU's Policy on Photocopying Copyrighted Materials. For further information on use and copyright, see Copyright and Fair Use.

Roles and Responsibilities

All interactivity in NYU Classes, including within academic, personal, and public groups, should reflect the positive and respectful learning and working environment of New York University within which basic rules of conduct for the entire University community prevail. Such rules of conduct are discussed in various University documents including, but not limited to: Academic Integrity for Students at NYU, the University Policy on Student Conduct, the Faculty Handbook, the Employee Handbook, and NYU's Code of Ethical Conduct.

Academic Site Administration: Instructors in Academic Course Sites

1. Course sites will be created automatically as private Course Sites, with all pages visible "to participants only" by default.
2. Instructors are encouraged to keep Course Sites private (visible "to participants only") to protect academic work.
• If a Course Site is made available to anyone not enrolled in the course (changing permissions from "to participant only" to include logged in users), in part or entirely, so that student work could be made visible beyond the scope of the course, Instructors are required to inform their students of this change, and obtain necessary release forms from participants.. Student work includes comments, discussion posts, and content posted and shared to the group.
3. Instructors are responsible for the content posted and shared within their Course Site.
4. Instructors are required to follow FERPA guidelines, and should not share or distribute student submitted work without the expressed permission of the student.
5. Instructors are responsible for managing the enrollments of all Teaching Assistants or Students taking their course for non-credit. Officially registered students will be automatically enrolled and updated daily.

Project Site Administration

1. General Administration

   Project Sites are available to all eligible participants to NYU Classes. Please use the Ask ITS Contact form to request a project site.
   
   

2. Managers of Project Sites

   1. All Project Sites are required to have at least one manager responsible for the created site.
   2. Managers of Project Sites are responsible for enrollments within their site, and participation is limited to those participating in Phase 1.
   3. Managers are responsible for the content posted and shared within their Project Site.

Your Profile

Your Profile is a personal space within NYU Classes for you to maintain personal profile information, including profile picture, and to manage connections with fellow participants. Your Profile information is independent of your participation in Course or Project Sites. At no time is information from Course or Project Sites made available through Your Profile. By default, your name is the only portion of Your Profile made available to logged-in users in other NYU Classes.

1. Your Profile: Connections

   All users of NYU Classes can make connections, or request friendships, with other users of NYU Classes. These connections are different from fellow members of Course or Project Sites. Once another user is accepted as a connection, additional profile information becomes available to that connection. This information includes your basic information, contact information, profile picture, and other personal pictures (if uploaded), as well as whom your connections are and the ability to exchange messages and status updates. Only your e-mail address found under Contact Information is filled out by default. All other information is voluntary.
   
   

2. Your Profile: Privacy

   Privacy settings can be changed to be more or less visible based on your personal preference. Please see this Ask ITS knowledgebase article to learn how to modify these settings.

Monitoring

Although NYU does not routinely pre-screen, monitor, or regularly review content, it reserves the right to remove, at any time, at its sole discretion, any content that it considers to violate these Terms of Use or the terms of any other campus user agreements that may govern use of the campus networks, or that it deems in violation of University policy or local, state, or federal law.

Service Availability

NYU Classes will follow the ITS Scheduled Maintenance Guidelines for Academic Services, and an announcement will be posted to the IT Service Status page. In the event that NYU Classes requires unscheduled maintenance, or otherwise unscheduled downtime, a notification will be posted on the IT Service Status page with an estimate of the anticipated time to service restoration. To subscribe to automatically receive ITS Status announcements by e-mail, see www.nyu.edu/its/status/notices/.

Support

The NYU IT Service Desk and the LMS Portfolio Service Team will provide support for NYU Classes and the NYU Classes integrated services; see www.nyu.edu/its/askits/helpdesk/ for contact information.

Page last reviewed: February 11, 2013