Office of information Technology
Services:
Rules and Procedures


Computing Labs


Authority: Vice for Information Technology
History: First issued in 1993
; last revised, June 14, 2007
Scope: NC State students, faculty, staff

Service Name
Computing Labs

Brief description of service
NC State has approximately 100 student computing facilities on campus. The Office of Information Technology supports the Unity computing labs. Unity labs are equipped with Windows-based, Unix and Macintosh workstations, all of which provide high-speed Internet connections and access to the file space, software and other resources of the Unity/Eos academic computing environment. Colleges and departments support additional computing facilities, many of which have discipline-specific resources. Colleges may apply additional rules for use ofcollege facilities.

Clients Eligible for service

All with active Unity computing accounts

Type of use

Either business or personal

Duration of service

Ongoing

Cost

No additional cost

To obtain service

Unity labs are open to all NC State students, faculty and staff with active Unity/Eos computing accounts. Accounts are automatically created for students when they first register for classes and for faculty and staff when they are hired.

Rules of use

All NC State computer and network resources are governed by Administrative Regulations - Computer Use

  1. All those who use University facilities are expected to take proper care of the equipment. Any equipment malfunction should be immediately reported to staff on duty or to the organization responsible for the facility. Users of computing facilities may not move, repair, reconfigure, or modify the computing systems. No food or drink is permitted in University computing facilities.
  2. Recreational use of workstations in University computing labs during periods of light usage is permitted.
    • No one may play games or engage in other recreational activities on workstations when others are waiting to use them for academic purposes.
    • It is the responsibility of game players to recognize when resources are needed and to give up their seats to other users. It should not be necessary for someone to ask them to move.
  3. Users must realize that they are in an academic facility and refrain from noise, sound effects, violent motion, etc., which may disturb others in the facility.
  4. Individual Unity computing labs (supported by ITD) and other University-owned computing labs may post additional operational rules and restrictions. These rules must be filed with the University's Office of Legal Affairs. Users are responsible for reading and following these rules.

For more information/documentation

For more information about Unity computing labs see:http://oit.ncsu.edu/unity-labs

For more information about college computing labs see: http://oit.ncsu.edu/campus-computer-labs


Last updated: September 25, 2009, jd
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