Computer rooms

 The faculty has four computer rooms for teaching use (rooms 113, 307, 308, and 316), with a total of fifty-five PCs and fifty Macs, and a user computer room (309) with eight PCs and three Macs. In total, sixty-three PCs and fifty-three Macs connected via Ethernet network, and a LINUX server - which is used in the teaching of different subjects. You can use the computers in room 309 during all hours they are open, and classrooms 307 and 308 when there are no classes. Classrooms 113 and 316 are used only teaching or with the presence of a responsible teacher. The available equipment provides computer programmes and Internet access. User authentication is integrated into MonUB. .

The schedule,  from the classrooms (307-308) when there are no classes is from Monday to Friday from 8:30 to 19:00. These schedules may be modified due to academic needs. Classrooms remain closed during this time and the Information Point staff opens them at the request of students that you ask for it. 

The computer classrooms are coordinated by professor Josep Manuel Rodríguez-Gairín (rodriguez.gairin@ub.edu).

The Faculty's computer laboratory is made up of a set of computer services and resources dedicated to teaching and research at this centre. It includes the computer classrooms and the control area. 

A professor is responsible for coordinating laboratory. 

For the proper functioning of the classrooms and the available teaching resources, the Board of the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Mdeia, at is meeting on October 28, 1998, approved the following internal regulations. This regulation is a general framework for action to facilitate the good management of available resources; The laboratory team, however, will maintain a flexible attitude to provide the best service. 

The laboratory is open from 8:30 to 19:00 and has teaching as its primary objective. For this reason, access to individual users is limited to use within the subjects of the syllabus. To have access to the laboratory you must identify yourself as a user and be a student or professor at the faculty.  

Students can use the laboratory within established operating hours and when there is no class. Depending on the teaching needs, free access is given to the different classrooms. 

Professors that need the laboratory on an ongoing basis to teach classes can make a general reservation for the entire semester. The heads of studies coordinate and confirm these general reservations. If you need the classrooms on a specific occasion, you must notify the Faculty secretariat fifteen days in advance. 

If a teaching programme needs to be installed on the network, teachers must notify the intranet forum established for this purpose fifteen days in advance, although it is recommended that the request for programmes be made for semesters and, therefore, before classes begin. 

The use of programmes in the laboratory is restricted to those available. Therefore, apart from the use that can be made of it within each subject, the laboratory must be used, above all, to carry out individual practices or to prepare work with the available programmes. The use of programmes that are not in the laboratory is excluded. 

The use of commercial software packages available in the laboratory is subject to the imperatives of intellectual property rights; therefore, under no circumstances may copies of this material be made. 

Users who wish to enter personal data into the programmes installed on the laboratory computers must do so on a memory stick or on drive D. Hard drives are periodically checked and irrelevant data is removed. Therefore, the maintenance of personal files is not guaranteed. 

Classroom users cannot make changes to the computer configuration or install software on them. Anyone who violates any of these rules will receive a first warning and, if they repeat the violation, they will be banned from entering the classrooms for one month.  

Measures are taken to ensure the non-proliferation of computer viruses that could damage the use of laboratory equipment and programmes. 

Internet access cannot be misused or abused. It is not permitted to participate in chats or browse the Internet for exclusively recreational purposes. 

Correct behaviour must be observed: drinking, eating or smoking is not allowed in the classrooms. It is necessary to maintain a pleasant working environment and, therefore, silence must be maintained. 

When finished working, students must log out of the network and leave their equipment turned off (CPU and screens). 

Any anomaly detected in the equipment must be reported to a teacher so that they can pass it on to the classroom coordinator. 

Oh! But...can't you chat? 

No. The regulations for computer classrooms establish that incorrect and abusive use of Internet access is not allowed. Chatting or browsing the Internet for purely recreational purposes is not allowed. 

When can I come to the computer classrooms?

Computer class schedules are updated every Monday. You will find them hanging on the door of each classroom. The spaces where there are no scheduled classes are those intended for students to do their internships or academic work. 

Room 309 is not normally used for teaching and, therefore, can be used for work at any time.