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Netiquette
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What is netiquette?
Netiquette is set of guidelines to help you communicate effectively and appropriate in online environments with your instructor and your classmates.
Why do we need guidelines?
You probably communicate with your friends and family in many ways -- via text message, chat, Facebook and email. These types of communication channels are fast and easy to use, but how we talk to each other using them is very different than how we should communicate with each other in a professional environment. When you don't meet your instructor or classmates in person, everything they know about you is based on how you communicate with them in messages, emails, chats and discussion board postings... so it's important not to offend or alienate anyone deliberately or accidentally. Netiquette guidelines will help you!
Behind Every Name There is a Person:
- Respect the privacy of your classmates and what they share in class.
- Ask classmates for clarification if you find a discussion posting offensive or difficult to understand.
- Avoid sweeping generalizations. Back up your stated opinions with facts and reliable sources.
- Understand that we may disagree and that exposure to other people’s opinions is part of the learning experience.
- Be respectful of each other. We’re all in this together. Before posting a comment, ask whether you would be willing to make the same comment to a person’s face.
- Keep in mind that everything you write, indeed every click of your mouse is recorded on the network server. On the Internet there are no take backs.
- Keep in mind that you are taking a college class. Something that would be inappropriate in a traditional classroom is also inappropriate in an online classroom.
Basic Online Communication:
- Be aware that typing in all capital letters indicates shouting.
- Be careful with humor and sarcasm. Both can easily be misunderstood!
- Review all discussion postings before posting your own to prevent redundancy [and repetition].
- Check your writing for errors by reviewing what you’ve written before submitting it.
- Acronyms (LOL, etc.) and emoticons (smiles) are commonly used online, but be careful not to overuse them.
REMEMBER... many communications with your instructor or fellow students are best handled through the Discussion Boards: please use email if the question is confidential. By posting so everyone can read it, your fellow students can all benefit from your question and the answer.
UMBC Conduct and Community Standards
From UMBC's Conduct Mission Statement:
Student Conduct and Community Standards supports the University’s dedication to student success and its educational purposes and goals by publishing, enforcing, drafting and interpreting standards of student behavior and related policies and procedures; facilitates student and community development and ethical growth opportunities promoting personal integrity, civility, self-responsibility, citizenship, and appreciation for diversity; works to maintain a safe and productive environment supporting the University’s educational purpose and the students’ educational goals; and promotes the privileges and responsibilities associated with a student’s affiliation with the University.
Faculty & Staff Disruptive Student Behavior Guide
Green Dot is built on the premise that in order to measurably reduce the perpetration of power-based personal violence, including sexual violence, partner violence, or stalking, a cultural shift is necessary. In order to create a cultural shift, a critical mass of people will need to engage in a new behavior or set of behaviors that will make violence less sustainable within any given community. The “new behavior” is a green dot.