Reserving a Computer Lab

Information Technology has several Microcomputer labs for usage of network software such as popular word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, and internet applications.

Students are available in each lab to assist students, staff and faculty with questions. The normal expectation of students, faculty, and staff is that the labs and clusters are available for unscheduled work such as preparing assignments; however, most of these facilities may be reserved for such uses as seminars, classes, or workshops. Class use may be on a one-time basis or a class may be regularly scheduled to meet in a lab or cluster. Since this use lessens or precludes use by others, it should be done only when you deem it to be in the best educational interest of students in your classes.

Reserving Labs

Reservations are made by contacting the Lab Manager (ext. 4035) or the Administrative Assistant (ext. 7824), and will be confirmed and placed on the posted schedule. When reserving labs, this does not guarantee that all software will available for use. The policy for making reservations and resolving conflicts has been developed by the Academic Computing Advisory Committee (ACAC) and is detailed below.

1. Instructional use will have priority over all other uses of the microcomputer labs. Use for regular, credit courses will have priority over other instructional uses, such as non-credit courses and workshops.
2. Reservations for weekly use during a semester, summer term, or short course will be made at least a month in advance of the course or term. These will normally be for one hour sessions, but not to exceed two hours or the length of one normal class period.
3. All weekly reservations will be honored on a first-come, first-serve basis. If conflicts cannot be otherwise resolved, pursuant to item number "6".
4. If it is desired to use the lab for more than one session per week of the same class, all sessions beyond the one per week will be given lower priority in scheduling. Such additional reservations will not be confirmed until the passage of the one-month deadline and then only if the scheduling of the additional time does not unduly restrict practice time for students in other classes.
5. For single occasion use, reservations should be made at least a week in advance and will not be confirmed for more than two hours in length. Requests for more than the two hours will be honored, but on a non-confirmed basis.
6. In case of unresolvable conflicts, the School of Business will have priority in reserving the lab located in School of Business, with the ASBE department within that school given higher priority for room 307. The School of Education will have priority for the lab in SE-120. However, these priorities are valid only for one reservation per week for the same class.
7. If all the stations in a lab are not being used by the class for which the lab was reserved, the Information Technology Labs staff will permit other persons to use the spare machines during classes, with the provision that those persons do nothing to disturb the class (including avoiding the use of printers during class time). The one exception to this rule will be in the case of scheduled finals for which the lab will be closed to all except the instructor (or proctor) and members of the class.
8. Reservations for summer courses are to be made a week in advance of the submission of summer schedules to the deans and for no more than one three-hour or two two-hour sessions per day. Additional time may be permitted if the labs are free, but it will not be committed in advance. Reservations requested after the advance requests are confirmed will be honored only as unreserved time is available.
9. It will be the practice of Information Technology to open a lab to general use if the instructor has not appeared by ten minutes after the beginning of the reservation. Please let us know at least 24 hours in advance when they will not need to use reserved labs.