2. Authorized Use

The LMS is provided for authorized educational, professional development, executive education, administrative, and program-related purposes.

Users may only access the LMS using approved credentials and may not allow others to use their account. Users are responsible for all activity conducted through their account.

3. User Responsibilities

Users agree to:

• Provide accurate and current information when required
• Maintain the confidentiality of login credentials
• Use the LMS only for authorized purposes
• Respect the rights, privacy, and intellectual property of others
• Follow course rules, program expectations, and applicable institutional policies
• Avoid behavior that disrupts, harms, or interferes with the LMS or other users

4. Prohibited Conduct

Users may not:

• Share login credentials or allow unauthorized access
• Copy, distribute, reproduce, or commercially exploit LMS content without permission
• Upload unlawful, harmful, defamatory, discriminatory, abusive, or inappropriate content
• Interfere with LMS security, functionality, availability, or performance
• Attempt to access accounts, systems, data, or materials without authorization
• Use the LMS for spam, solicitation, harassment, or unrelated commercial activity
• Reverse engineer, scrape, crawl, or misuse LMS systems or content
• Violate any applicable law, regulation, policy, or contractual obligation

5. Course Materials and Intellectual Property

All LMS content, including videos, slides, readings, assignments, assessments, frameworks, tools, designs, recordings, software, and other materials, may be owned by or licensed to the Rick Goings Institute, Rollins College, instructors, facilitators, content contributors, or third-party providers.

Unless expressly permitted in writing, users may access course materials only for personal, educational, or authorized professional development purposes.

Users may not reproduce, share, publish, sell, modify, distribute, or create derivative works from LMS materials without prior written permission.

6. User-Submitted Content

Users may submit content through the LMS, including assignments, discussion posts, comments, survey responses, reflections, files, and other materials.

By submitting content, users represent that they have the right to submit it and that the content does not violate the rights of any third party.

The Institute may use submitted content for educational, administrative, instructional, assessment, quality improvement, and program-related purposes, subject to applicable privacy policies and institutional practices.

7. Program Access, Enrollment, and Completion

Access to LMS courses and materials may depend on enrollment status, payment status, sponsorship, program eligibility, institutional approval, or other administrative requirements.

The Institute may modify, suspend, or remove access to courses, materials, or features at any time for operational, administrative, security, legal, or program-related reasons.

Completion of a course or program may require satisfaction of specific participation, assessment, attendance, payment, or administrative requirements.

8. Payments, Refunds, and Cancellations

Certain programs, courses, or LMS features may require payment.

Payment terms, refund policies, cancellation rules, transfer policies, and enrollment deadlines may vary by program and will be provided separately when applicable.

In the event of a conflict between these Terms and a program-specific payment or refund policy, the program-specific policy will control.

9. Availability and System Changes

The Institute aims to provide reliable access to the LMS but does not guarantee uninterrupted, error-free, or continuous availability.

The LMS may be unavailable from time to time due to maintenance, updates, outages, vendor issues, technical problems, security concerns, or circumstances beyond the Institute’s control.

The Institute may modify, update, replace, or discontinue LMS features, content, or services at any time.

10. Third-Party Tools and Resources

The LMS may include or link to third-party platforms, websites, applications, tools, videos, readings, payment systems, or external resources.

Use of third-party tools may be subject to separate terms, privacy policies, and conditions. The Institute is not responsible for third-party content, availability, policies, or practices.

11. No Professional Advice

LMS content is provided for educational and professional development purposes only.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, LMS content should not be treated as legal, financial, medical, accounting, tax, investment, or other regulated professional advice. Users are responsible for applying course concepts appropriately within their own organizational, legal, and professional context.

12. Disclaimer of Warranties

The LMS and related content are provided on an “as available” and “as is” basis.

To the extent permitted by law, the Institute and Rollins College disclaim warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, availability, security, and non-infringement.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the extent permitted by law, the Rick Goings Institute, Rollins College, and their respective trustees, officers, employees, faculty, contractors, agents, partners, and service providers shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or exemplary damages arising from or related to LMS access, use, inability to use, content, errors, interruptions, or third-party services.

14. Account Suspension or Termination

The Institute may suspend, restrict, or terminate access to the LMS if a user violates these Terms, violates applicable policies, creates security or operational risk, fails to meet program requirements, fails to complete payment obligations, or engages in conduct deemed inappropriate or harmful.

15. Changes to These Terms

The Institute may update these Terms and Conditions from time to time. Updated Terms will be posted through the LMS or otherwise made available.

Continued use of the LMS after updates are posted means you agree to the revised Terms.

16. Governing Policies

Use of the LMS may also be subject to applicable Rollins College policies, program-specific agreements, codes of conduct, technology policies, privacy notices, and other institutional requirements.

17. Contact

Questions about these Terms and Conditions may be directed to rgi@rollins.edu.