The document describes the Creation Station, a tool to help schools develop Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) or Responsible Use Policies (RUPs) for technology use. The Creation Station guides administrators through each step, including planning, writing recommendations for an effective policy, building an customized policy, and providing implementation and assessment resources. It includes a checklist of components, examples for each section, and tools to monitor student and teacher adherence to the new policy. The goal is to help schools create policies that facilitate responsible technology use and 21st century learning.

1. AUP/RUP Creation Station
Noor Alkhater & Irina Uk
An effective AUP or RUP responds to all the issues that school leaders, administrators, teachers and
parents have related to the use of web 2.0 tools and mobile technology in classrooms, acts as a framework
for mitigating, redirecting and responding to misuse, and is the foundation for facilitating a responsible
use culture in which mobile technology and web 2.0 tools can be utilized to enhance learning and
acquisition of 21st century skills. The Creation Station will guide you through the steps of developing a
new or revised policy, from planning to monitoring.
BETA Website: http://12.69.98.3:8080/AUPBuilder.aspx
Development Checklist:
Provides administrators with an initial roadmap to guide them through the process of creating an AUP or
RUP. The following two components guided the creation of the checklist: 1) research on digital
citizenship and developing AUPs and RUPs, and 2) studying State Technology Plans and existing AUPs
and RUPs. The checklist provides administrators with an overview of the various steps and components
that make up AUPs and RUPs. For schools that are rewriting AUPs or RUPs, or those attempting to write
their schools first-ever policy, the checklist offers key steps to consider in a suggested order meant to help
facilitate the overall process.
AUP/ RUP Recommendation:
Contains a detailed recommendation of what an effective AUP or RUP should contain and how it should
be organized. This recommendation was written based on research consisting of EdTech literature,
existing effective AUPs and RUPs and interviews we conducted with administrators and other school
officials.
AUP/ RUP Builder:
Guides the user through crafting an AUP or RUP. You can then export it to word, save it and print it. It is
split screen, so that they can refer to sections of the AUP or RUP recommendation as they write their
own. You have options to delete, add, and change the order of categories that we provide them with. The
builder is pre-populated with a model example of each section in the AUP or RUP. You can choose to
keep, modify or overwrite this example.
Implementation Resources:
Provides resources for teachers, administrators and parents that can help them implement their new AUP
or RUP. We provide links to many resources and share tips on what can be done to help a school
transition smoothly to using web 2.0 tools and teaching 21st century skills.
Assessment Tools:
Suggests possible ways to monitor and assess the policy. The section is divided into two parts; one that
assesses student use, the other assesses teacher use. The student use section is made up of two parts; 1) A
discipline referral flowchart that allows administrators to pinpoint the specific sections and parts of the
AUP or RUP that students are not adhering to; 2) An interactive discipline referral tracker to quantify the
number of referrals in order to reveal specific problem areas in the AUP or RUP. This tool will help
administrators consider specific ways to better support student adherence. The teacher use section is a
classroom observation protocol. Administrators can evaluate the use of technology in the classroom
linked to AUP or RUP guidelines, adherence and promotion, as well as collect data on how students
respond to the teacher’s practices.