Guidelines of use and Privacy Policy

The MGS Portal is an interactive web space for the use of students, staff and members of the Melbourne Grammar School Community. The MGS Portal will be on-line from May 2002.

Implementation for staff and students will be staged during the next 12 months. This is designed to ensure adequate support and professional development for staff and students and to progressively develop services available through the Portal. It is planned to then extend this service to parents of boarders and day students.

MGS Portal is best described as an 'intranet' with two primary purpose:
  • publishing information in a web environment (online collaboration)
  • an interactive work space for subject and class students and their teachers.

The only context in which information maybe published is; information related to the academic and co-curricular programs; and information services related to the administrative operation of the School.

The staff member or student who publishes information is deemed to be responsible for the content. Content must be appropriate in an educational context or related to the School's general operations.

To use the MGS Portal you must be an authorised network account user with a valid password. Students in Prep to Year 4 will use generic class accounts and access will be supervised by the class teacher. Students in Year 5 to Year 12 each hold individual network accounts and unique passwords. Each student with a network account has completed a Network User Agreement - this agreement includes appropriate use of network services.

It is illegal to use the MGS Portal without authenticating as an authorised account holder in the Melbourne Grammar School network. It is illegal to use another person's account and/or password.

Copyright and Intellectual Property

The following guidelines embrace all aspects of the MGS Portal and where practicable and within our control any references to and links to sources on the Internet.
Copyright and Intellectual Property guidelines apply to 2 key functions of the MGS Portal:

  1. content published by staff and students
    (The School has prepared a Policy Statement which can be referred to by using the link below)
  2. information, data, resources, graphics, references etc. from another source

All content must meet Copyright licence agreements and use the recognised standards of acknowledgement and recognition. Content must meet Copyright and Intellectual Property guidelines when content is reproduced from another source.