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Moderation Guidelines
Moderation is the act of reviewing and approving content before it's published on the site (This applies
to social media content written on behalf of APUS, whether on an APUS-owned Web site or not). APUS
does not endorse or take responsibility for content posted by third parties, referred to as user generated
content (UGC). This includes text input and uploaded files (video, images, audio, executables, and
documents).

Community Moderation
For established, healthy communities, group moderation by regular users can work well. This will
sometimes be allowed to take the place of pre-moderation—it must be applied for and approved.

Balanced Online Dialogue
Whether content is pre-moderated or community moderated, follow these three principles: the Good,
the Bad, but not the Ugly. If the content is positive or negative and in context to the conversation, then
we approve the content, regardless of whether it's favorable or unfavorable to APUS. But if the content
is ugly, offensive, denigrating and completely out of context, then we reject the content. For a more
detailed discussion on this subject, please contact the APEI Associate Vice President of Interactive
Marketing at (703) 334–3939.

Use for Business Purposes
APUS's computer system is provided to employees at company expense to assist them in carrying out
the University System's business. The system permits employees to perform their jobs, share files, and
communicate with each other internally and with selected outside individuals and companies that APUS,
in its sole discretion, decides should be communicated with or connected to the system.

APUS treats all information transmitted through or stored in the system, including e-mail messages, as
business information.

APUS has the capability to access, review, copy, and delete any information transmitted through or
stored in the system, including email messages. The University System reserves the right to access,
review, copy, or delete all such information for any purpose and to disclose it to any party (inside or
outside the company) it deems appropriate.

Those files containing the personal information of an employee as a result of the employee making
incidental use of the computer for personal purposes, including transmission of personal e-mail
messages, will be treated no differently than other files. The company reserves the right to access,
review, copy, or disclose them for any purpose. Accordingly, employees should not use the computer
system to send, receive or store any information that they wish to keep private. Employees
must exercise a greater degree of caution in transmitting confidential APUS information on the
computer system than they take with other means of communicating information (e.g., written
memoranda, letters or phone calls) because of the reduced human effort required to redistribute
information electronically.

Passwords
Employees must use passwords as made available by the company computer system to protect against
unauthorized access to files on which they are working. Passwords must conform to the policies
described in the “Password Policies” section of the APUS Standard Operating Procedures manual. Never
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