- Steve Coulson -
15 February 2006
Please refer to Fiedler 1091 as the "Cargill Classroom" -- we do, and that's
the one designation most likely to be understood by faculty and staff in the
College of Engineering. Students, however, will probably not be familiar with
this designation.
Here are our general use policies. You are responsible for ensuring that
these are observed. Faculty using the Cargill Classroom are not
authorized to waive policies on food and drinks (or tobacco, which is a
building-wide policy). Students should not have drinks sitting on the desks
beside them. I usually ask students to put drinks in their backpacks, or set them at
the front of the room until class is over.
- No food or drinks
- No tobacco products
- No posting of notices
When finished using the room,
- Turn off the overhead projector by pressing "Off" on the projector remote twice.
- Raise the projection screen
- Make sure the A/B switch is set to "A - Tegrity Computer".
- Leave the room in a neat, orderly condition for the next user
- Erase the whiteboard
- Check for personal items left in the room
- Put all waste in trash containers
- (Optional) To conserve power, turn off all computers. Pressing the power button is quick and safe.
- Turn off the lights
- Close and lock the door
There are 23 student computers in the room. Their configuration is
identical to other computers we provide for student/faculty use in
our open-use computer labs, Fiedler Library, our student study rooms,
etc. In particular:
- A College of Engineering account, and password, is required to
login. I would guess that every engineering student would already be using
their account and would have no difficulty with this.
- For security, all computers have special software called Deep
Freeze installed, which removes all user files and changes on
the LOCAL hard drive when the machine is rebooted. Any files
saved on the local (C:) drive will be lost on reboot. Many -
but not all - students are aware of this.
- Every student's College of Engineering account comes with
- a home directory (drive H:) with 10 MB of space on a
network drive, available no matter which computer they
log into. Files here are not affected by Deep Freeze
and persist until removed by the user.
- a fairly generous printing account balance. We add 20
copies per week, but do not allow balances to build up
beyond a maximum 60 copies (increased to 80 in the final
three weeks of every semester).
- In the Cargill Classroom, printed output will go by default
to the laser printer in Fiedler 1092, next door. This
printer's network name is "Franklin".
- Information about student accounts, printing, software, account
balances, passwords etc is at http://ecc.engg.ksu.edu.
Your account is a standard Engineering account. It has the same
privileges and features as the student accounts have. Your account will
allow you to login on computers in Fiedler Library, Fiedler 1092 and
a few other locations, as well as in the Cargill Classroom. You can
use your account as you see fit; among other things, it will let
you experience exactly the same work environment we give to students.
If you need additional disk space, or the ability to print more pages,
please let us know.
There are two teaching computers at the front of the room; you may use
either, or both. Both have Microsoft Office with Powerpoint. Both can
display output using the ceiling-mounted data projector. Both computers
have DVD drives and USB connectors/ports. Both are connected to the
campus network and the Internet.
The computer on the black cart is usually called the "Tegrity computer",
to distinguish it from the one in the corner. It has special software
from Tegrity Systems that allows an instructor to capture his/her
presentation for later access via K-State Online. You will need special
training if you wish to use the Tegrity package, but you can use
this computer just like any other computer; the Tegrity package should
not interfere. NO PASSWORD is needed to use this computer. The Tegrity
computer has a wireless keyboard as well as a wired keyboard. There is
an external ZIP-250 drive, and USB ports are available. It boots up
with a dialogue box about K-State online which you can simply close.
The computer in the corner is a College of Engineering lab computer. It
is configured just like the student computers, and you will need to login
with your College of Engineering password. For management reasons, we
often do not install engineering software on the Tegrity computer. This
second computer provides our faculty with access to some engineering
software packages when teaching.
There is a ceiling-mounted data projector that can be switched between
the two computers. A single video cable from the projector is connected
to a wallplate at the front of the room. A video selector switch located by the corner ("Instructor") computer connects
to that wallplate; the switch is used to connect video from either the
Tegrity computer or the corner computer to the ceiling-mounted projector.
Use the projector remote to turn on the projector. It is attached to the
Tegrity cart by a black coiled cord.
If video from your presentation computer is not displayed as expected,
check the video selector switch.
To turn the projector OFF, use the projector remote. You will have to
press the button twice; on the first press, the projector will put a
message on the screen asking you to press the button again to confirm
that you want to turn the power off.
The audio is very primitive. A small pair of computer speakers are connected
to the tegrity cart for playing audio from CDs/DVDs, etc. We have a
wireless microphone available if you would like to use it.
Lighting control is primitive. Each fluorescent lighting fixture has
three lamps, wired so that you can turn on one, two, or all three. The
Venetian-style mini-blinds in the windows can help to reduce room lighting
levels as needed.
The teaching computers can read floppy discs, CDs, DVDs and ZIP-100 and
ZIP-250 drives. They cannot write to DVDs.
They have USB ports, though they may be hard to find: under hinged flaps
on the fronts of the computers, or (hard to reach) at the rear.
There are NO connections for an external laptop. There is NO VHS VCR.
There is no audio cassette player. There is no ELMO-type document camera.
We can make provision for these if you need them; just let us know.
Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make your teaching
situation better. We enthusiastically welcome suggestions and problem
reports.
