Educational Computing Labs

The Educational Computing Lab serves the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) faculty, staff and students.

Located in the Computer Services Unit (CSU), on the second floor in room HSC-2D8, it provides computing and e-mail services.

Priority for lab use is given to booked courses, tutorials, etc. The area is otherwise available for FHS students, who have been provided with an access card, for such general uses as word-processing, email and Web browsing. Access cards (HomeBase swipe cards) are assigned to students through their educational programme.

Hours of Operation

The lab is available Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and a Computer Services Unit (CSU) staff consultant is available from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to provide technical support to students and faculty.


How to Reserve the Lab

  • Check the Lab Schedule
  • Send an email to educlab@mcmaster.ca to request a lab booking, specifying the date, time and course name, if applicable. A confirmation will be emailed.
  • Students may drop in anytime when the Lab is open and no booked for courses, workshops & tutorials, etc.
  • Arrangements can be made for faculty to use the Lab on weekends and evenings.

Charges

  • There is no charge for use of the Lab for Faculty-based educational activities.
  • For workshops and events that charge a registration fee, $100 per hour will be charged for use of the Lab.
  • Standard software packages have been installed on the equipment. An hourly charge will be levied for installing specialized software or when technical assistance is required.
  • Arrangements can be made for faculty to use the Lab on weekends and evenings.

Room Setup

24 student PC’s in rows facing 1 Instructor PC with DVD. Ceiling mounted video projector with Smart Sympodium and whiteboard. Each PC is built to the following specifications:

  • Intel Core 2 Duo 2.83 GHZ
  • 4 Gigs Ram
  • 160 Gig HD
  • DVD+-RW
  • 22” Wide Screen Monitors
  • Sound Card and Speakers


Software
The following software is installed in the Educational Computing Lab:

Windows XP Professional Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0
MS Office XP Professional Learn Link Gold first-class 9
N-Vivo 1.2 Text Pad 4.4
SPSS 16 Netscape Communicator 4.79
MiniTab 14 Internet Explorer Suite 7
Reference Manager 11 (Demo Edition) Mozilla Firefox
WinZip 8.0 Sophos Anti-virus software

McMaster Internet

  • Telnet
  • FTP
  • Hummingbird

 

 

Printing

All PC’s are networked to the CopiCard print system for print job retrieval in Home Base, HSC Library, IAHS Learning Commons or Other Campus Libraries. Charge is 10 cents per page via CopiCard.

General Lab Policies
Clients take responsibility for any damage to the equipment.
All internet access must be logged.
Stationary supplies are not provided.
Consumption of food or drink in the Lab is prohibited.
Tampering with the system files is prohibited.
All users must abide by the UTS Code of Conduct for Computer and Network Users.
http://www.mcmaster.ca/uts/policy/netcond.htm

Network Access
All PCs have full access to the Internet via the McMaster University Proxy Server and clients will require a proxy server account to be able to access the Internet.