St. Joseph's College currently has several computer labs in the new Business and Technology Building. There are four labs in the basement of the BT building (rooms B-6, B-10, B-11, and B-14). We have two labs on the first floor of the BT building, 1-15 and 1-12. 1-15 is our Muiltmedia computer lab and 1-12 is our wireless labtop lab. We also have N223 O'Connor Hall which is considered an "Open Lab" most of the time. All our labs are equipped with a black and white laser printer. Our two "Open Labs" (B-6 and N223) are also equipped with a color flatbed scanner, a zip drive, a CD-Rom Recorder* and colored deskjet printer for your use.

At any "Open Lab" time, students may come in and use the computer labs. These times and scheduled classes are posted outside of each lab.

Open labs during the weekend and non-scheduled Reserved Classes are also published outside of each computer lab as soon as the information becomes available for you convenience.

In general, logging in to a computer is as simple as typing the user name, which is student and the password, which is sjc.

Lab Assistants are available to guide you in the use of the computer and assist you if should run into any technical problems. This does NOT mean they are permitted to help you with any homework (reports, programming assignments, etc.)

You can easily located the Lab Assistant because he/she is seated at the front of the room at the teacher's station.

Printing is free, however, please try and conserve the paper (help save a tree). Use your programs Print Preview function to make all corrections prior to printing final copies.

Do NOT add any paper to the printer. In the event that a printer runs out of paper, please see a Lab Assistant.

Computer labs are to be used for academic purposes ONLY.

Food and beverages are NOT permitted in the computer labs at any time.

Always save important files and documents to a floppy disk. Our computer systems will reverse any changes made to the system upon each restart. This will include any files you have saved to the hard disk.

When purchasing floppy disks, please try to obtain those that are High Density and that have a plastic slide rather than metal. Metal slides tend to become dented or bent. Therefore they are more prone to breaking off in the floppy drive. Not only does this damage the computer, it puts your files and documents in jeopardy.

Even though most disks come preformatted, it is a good idea to reformat them prior to use.

The College's Computer Use Policy is published in each computer lab. Please take a few moments to review this important document.

 

* Lab N223 has been newly renovated with the most up to date computers where each computer is equipped with a CD-Rom Recorder.