Laptop Pool Policy
| University Computing's Instructional Technology Lab provides laptop
computers to faculty and staff for short-term business travel. This pool of
computers is intended to meet the off-campus travel needs not otherwise met
by the normal portable classroom presentation equipment. This service
replaces the laptops formerly housed in the University Computing
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- Laptops may be reserved up to six months in advance on a first-come
first-served basis.
- Under no circumstances will a reservation be accepted for usage of a
personal nature.
- Reservations will be limited to a maximum of three weeks.
- A reason for the laptop request must be noted on the
reservation form.
- Laptops will be configured with
standard office software. No
additional software will be added.
- The laptop disk image will be "frozen", meaning that the laptop
reconfigures itself to the original setup upon reboot. An area will be
set aside on the local disk drive that will allow users to save local
data that will not be overwritten upon reboot.
- Replacement or repair costs related to lost or damaged items may be
charged to the user’s department based on the specific circumstances of
the incident.
- Laptops may be picked up and returned to the ITL (Leyburn
Library - Main Level)
Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.
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Reserve a
laptop
Laptop Features:
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- Dell Latitude D610
- Windows XP Professional
- AC Adapter
- Spare battery
- On-board media bay with CD-RW/DVD drive
- Floppy drive (swap with CD/DVD drive)
- Wired mouse (USB)
- Wired and wireless network capability (with cable)
- Modem (with cable)
- USB ports
- Carry Case
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Software Includes:
- Standard Windows XP tools
- Microsoft Word 2003
- Microsoft Excel 2003
- Microsoft Access 2003
- Microsoft Frontpage 2003
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2003
- Microsoft Publisher 2003
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- Groupwise
- Internet Explorer
- Sonic Record Now
- Acrobat Reader
- MDID Art Viewer
- ARTstor Art Viewer
- Datatel User Interface
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Helpful Tips:
Logging in-
Each time the laptop is turned on, you will be presented with the Novell
login screen. When connected to the W&L network, you will use your normal
Novell login and password. When using the laptop off the W&L network,
you will check the "Workstation Only" box, type the word "user" in the
Username field, and leave the password field blank (more
details).
Saving documents to the local drive-
The laptop has a locked C:\ drive in order to protect the setup of the
computer. The computer is referred to as "frozen". This will
assure you of getting a laptop where the programs and setup have not
been modified by the previous user. Each time the machine reboots,
it resets itself to the "frozen" image. An area that will not be
overwritten has been set aside for you to save your documents.
This area is labeled as the "T:\ drive (Save Local Data Here)" (more
details).
You may also use a USB memory stick as an alternate place to save your
data (not provided).
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