Info for
our Faculty
General Lab
Info
Lab hours on days that classes are in session during the
regular school year are 8:30 to 5, Monday through Thursday
and 8:30 to 4 on Friday. Summer hours will be a bit more
variable. We are closed weekends and holidays. If I get
sufficient staffing, I'll try to be open until 7 at least
one night per week, depending on the student help
available. I'm looking for workstudies to help out, so an
announcement in class would be appreciated. The positions
have flexible hours and offer lots of study time.
We have portable CD and cassette tape players, presentation
carts with laptops and projectors, and TVs with VCRs
available for faculty to check out. There are also digital
video and still cameras available. See me or a lab
assistant for details.
When bringing classes into the lab, please try to keep
students in the class in the teaching area, closer to the
main lab entrance (stations 1 - 24). This keeps the general
use area (on the far side of the two large arrows, stations
25 - 32) clear for students who are not in class and need a
computer. If more seats are needed than are available in
the teaching area, your students can use the general use
area, but please try to keep the area as clear as possible
for general use. If there are students not in your class
who are using computers you need in the class area, you may
ask them to move to the general access area. However, we
cannot request that students move from the general access
area.
Food and drinks need to be kept away from the computers and
keyboards. If any of your students has food or drinks at
the station, please request that those items be placed on
the table by the door or in a backpack. This precaution
goes a long way towards keeping food and liquids out of the
keyboards.
The lab computers have software for language instruction,
such as the interactive CDs from the textbooks, GMAT
software, Microsoft Office and internet browsers. If you
need specific software for your classes, please see me.
Logging
In
All EWU lab computers require a unique login, for students,
staff and faculty. When logging in for the first time, a
new user should use 'ewuguest' as the user name with no
password. Doing so will take the user through a process in
which the user is verified as being an employee or
registered student. The user is guided through a process
that will provide a unique user name and a password chosen
by the user. The password will need to have at least three
of the following four elements: upper case letter(s), lower
case letter(s) number(s), special character(s) such as #,
@, ! *, etc. The new login information can be used on all
EWU lab computers and for wi-fi access.
Please bear in mind that at the beginning of each quarter,
and especially Fall, some information takes a few days to
get into the databases that are used for creating logins.
If it appears that a student is unable to get a new user
name or log in, it may be due to a delay in updating their
information. Please see me if this problem arises. I can
check on the status of the student's information and
provide a temporary login.
Tech Fee and Running
Start students
Each student pays a Tech Fee of $35 per quarter. This fee
is charged automatically to full-time students. It's
pro-rated at $3.50 per credit for part-time students. The
Tech Fee provides computer access in all campus and
Riverpoint computers, 180 pages of black and white
printing, and Netstorage, which provides online storage for
their documents. The proceeds from this fee are used to
purchase computers and other resources for students' use.
To use the 180 pages of print credit, the student prints
from the computer as usual, then passes his or her student
ID card through the card scanner next to the printer. The
print station screen will then show a list of jobs waiting
to be printer. The user selects the job, clicks on print,
and the printing will begin, counting the number of pages
to apply to the print credit. If the 180 allotted pages
gets used up, the student can use their EagleFlex account
funds. Their 180 pages of print credit will be replenished
at the beginning of the next quarter.
This fee is not charged for running start students. Those
who have not been charged the fee may pay it at the
registrar's office if they wish for the print credit and
access to other benefits of the tech fee, such as full
access to all the labs, laptops for checkout from the
library, netstorage, and other benefits.
Running Start students who elect not to pay the Tech Fee
may use the computers in our lab using a special login. See
me for details. This special login works only in our lab,
on stations 1 - 26. Printing is not provided with this
login, but we provide printing for those running start
students in our language classes. Those students can ask me
or the lab attendant when they need to print.
Audio
CDs
Audio CDs are often included with language textbooks as
ancillary materials, but we've gotten permission from some
of the publishers to put these materials online so that
students don't need to have the CDs available when working
with the workbooks in the lab or at home. Presenting these
materials online provides quick access, saving crucial
class time when a class is working in the lab. We access
these materials through Blackboard since the publishers
have asked that we limit access to registered students who
have purchased the text. Students can access these
materials from anywhere they have computer access. For
those with limited internet access, we can provide the
audio materials on CD. They can ask for the CD to keep, but
we request that they return them when they're no longer
needed at the end of the year.
If you have any questions or problems with the lab or its
equipment and software, I’d like very much to know about
it.
Pat
