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Some states require schools to have acceptable use policies (AUPs) defining permissible behavior on the Internet along with Internet filtering software education, which helps define AUPs for all of the following information:
- Outline the filtering methods, such as the iPrism filtering appliance and the kinds of user profiles in place.
- Explain what use is allowed, specifically academic, research, and limited personal use.
- Explain what use is not allowed, including restrictions on personal use and what kinds of sites are blocked and why.
- Define what material is obscene or objectionable; what is considered offensive can vary between age groups and between school districts.
- Use Internet filtering software education to define disciplinary actions which will be taken against students, teachers, and administrative personnel if the AUP is violated.
AUPs for schools have at least two extra points that they can be required by law to include in their AUP, defining "objectionable" material and explicitly stating disciplinary
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actions for violating the AUP. State and federal funding have overlapping requirements for AUPs and Internet filtering software education for student Internet access. Regardless of the method or type of Internet filtering software education centers, from daycares to colleges, have mandated limits on the type of information that can be accessed by students.
Web filtering must be able to conform to the AUP. Internet filtering software education provides the requirements necessary to enforce the AUP
iPrism's Internet filtering software education technology emphasizes control over what users can access by setting user profiles based on access control rules. This makes any Internet filtering software education easy to configure because it looks at user behavior rather than trying to track down every objectionable image, offensive keyword, or IP address to create filters. There are two ways that iPrism's Internet filtering software education technology approaches user control:
- There can be multiple user profiles, for different age groups and work groups within an entire school district, which restrict access based on the category of site. iPrism's Internet filtering software and education recognizes several categories of questionable material, from Sex to Weapons/Violence. Profiles even enforce safe browsing, so that the results of searches are automatically scrubbed of objectionable content.
- With the iGuard database — which is based on heuristic, context-aware keyword filtering combined with 100% human-reviewed for accuracy — there are no false positives or false negatives. Even if users try to enter an IP address instead of a domain name, iPrism's Internet filtering software and education resolves the address, compares it to the information in the iGuard database, and enforces blocking.
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