VIUBlogs tutorials

The following guidelines explain how we support VIUBlogs and the expectations for how employees and students will use this platform.

• All VIUBlogs users must abide by all local, provincial, and federal laws (including copyright and intellectual property law) as well as VIU’s  Use of Information Technology Policy and all other relevant VIU policies. 
• VIU students must also abide by the Student Academic Code of Conduct Policy, and Student Code of Conduct Policy
• VIUBlogs sites may not be used for commercial purposes or for the benefit of organizations not directly affiliated with the University. 
• Official, department, program and promotional content for VIU should be located on the VIU website rather than VIUBlogs. Please contact Marketing and Communications to request a VIU website.
• Content that is found to violate these guidelines, VIU policies, or local, provincial or federal law may be removed or unpublished without notice. 

Site retention and removal

• It is the responsibility of site administrators to either transfer ownership of their site or export their site content and move it to a new host platform upon leaving the university. 
• VIUBlogs sites belonging to current employees or students will remain on VIUBlogs for as long as the site continues to be actively maintained. 
• Sites that are not maintained and sites which do not have an active VIU employee or student listed as an administrator will be removed once each year in July.
  • A site is considered no longer maintained if the site has not been updated in more than one year. Student-administered sites will be retained for at least one academic year after the last update to the site.