Information for Professors/Instructors
1) There is no food or drink allowed in the labs. Whether the students are eating or drinking is of no consequence. If they bring food or drink into the labs then it must stay inside their pack or jacket. Food or drink in a container is still a violation if it is visible. THIS INCLUDES WATER. Professors and TAs in charge of the lab are expected to enforce this policy. ECF's service contracts do not cover damage to equipment as a result of spilled food or drink.
2) ECF 'prof' accounts are provided to assist Professors teaching courses which require ECF hardware/software. Disk space is not provided for research or personal backups.
3) Professors can obtain a 'research' account for ECF UNIX or ECFPC see the section on computer accounts on ECF.
4) All grad students are entitled to an ECF UNIX account that will provide Email, access to the internet, and a web page. Grad students requiring access to special software (ANSYS/IDEAS/UNIGRAPHICS/AUTOCAD...) for course work can obtain an ECF UNIX course account or ECFPC course account. Requests for ECF course accounts can only be made by the professor teaching the course. The professor should send Email to phil@ecf.utoronto.ca with the following information:
- Course name/number
- System required (UNIX or WINDOWS)
- Software required
- Student name
- Student number
These 'course' accounts will be terminated when the course is over (end of term).
5) Both UNIX and WINDOWS systems have disk space set aside to aid with student assignment submissions and shared software so that Professors need not grant access to their personal account, or have muliple copies of the same software/data in every student's account.
6) Professors should access the ECF systems before term starts to determine if their software/course needs are in working order. Professors requesting additional software for the system should have the software made available to ECF staff at least 15 working days before image dates. Software additions to the system can be both time consuming and labour intensive as new images have to be deployed to all desktops. Software arriving after an image deployment will have to wait until the next image is created (3-6 weeks into term). Typical ECFPC image dates: Beginning of Fall Term (end of August); Thanksgiving (Early October); Beginning of Winter Term (January); Reading Week (Mid February).
7) Profs using the web for course notes, assignments, etc. should not assume that their documents will print on ECF printers. If students are expected to print documents from the web then the professor should go to an ECF lab and test print the document. Documents that do not print properly should be brought to the attention of ECF staff.
DOs and DON'Ts for course related documents:
- DON'T scan hand written notes.
- DON'T assume the students won't print it.
- DO create non-printable PDF files .
- DO photcopy notes/manuals and hand them out if all students require hardcopy.
8) Every user has access to a
personal web page. To create the initial web page you run the wwwinit command on the ECFUNIX systems.
9) Remote access to the ECF UNIX computers is possible with
SSH.
10) Remote access to the ECF mail server is permitted only via
webmail. Webmail can also be used to set up
mail forwarding and/or automatic replies ("vacation" messages).
11) Problems with equipment in ECF labs such as jammed printers or broken mice/keyboards/floppy drives should be reported to ECF STAFF by sending E-mail to trouble@ecf for UNIX or WINDOWS labs. In the E-mail try to be as specific as possible identifying the affected equipment so that we can fix the problem. If it is not reported, it will not get fixed in a timely fashion.
12) Users should not keep old Email in their INBOX or mail spool file. Please delete all unnecessary Email and save important Email to a file/folder.
