BUSINESS OFFICE TECHNOLOGY
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS LAB
(Room 6104) �

Rules and Procedure for Students
The Computer Applications Lab is open to Ohlone registered students working on courses which are supported by a specific software package. The primary purpose of this lab is to support the computer applications courses, and any other department that arranges with the BOT department for use of the computers to support their courses.

Hours
Fall and Spring: Mon - Fri, 9am-4:50 pm
Mon. & Wed. 6:30 pm-9:50pm

Summer: Mon. - Thurs., 9am-5pm
Wed., 6pm-9pm (Starting July 1, 1998)

Assistance
The daytime instructor is Isabel Braunstein.
The evening instructors are Joe Lugo (Mon.) and Lois Piley (Wed.-Spring/Fall) &
Uma Medepalli (Wed.-Summer)

Classes/Software
The lab is for the following classes/software:

PC HALF (20 computers)
�BOT* 172A&B Beg. and Int. Word for Windows
�BOT* 180 Production Experience in Word/Information Processing
�BOT* 182A Basic PageMaker
�BOT* 194A Microsoft Office (Includes Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word 97)
�CS*101L Microsoft Works

(and some English, Sociology, Accounting, and other classes that have made pre-arrangements with the lab.)

Macintosh Half (20 computers)
�Art* 139 Digital Photography/Adobe Photoshop
�Art* 160A Computer Graphics/Adobe Illustrator
�BOT* 188 Desktop Publishing with QuarkXPress

*Classes May have an Art, BA, BOT, CS, GA, or TYPE designation in addition to the ones listed.

Computer Applications Lab Rules
  • No food or drink is allowed in the lab.
  • For their safety, no children are allowed in the lab.
  • You are not allowed to make any changes to the hard drive, i.e., can�t load any new software.
  • DO NOT store documents on the hard drive. Students must bring their own floppy or zip drives to store their work. Put your name on your disks! If your disk is lost, check our lost and found box. We are not responsible for your disks!�
  • DO NOT change any system settings!�
  • Respect the dignity of others in the lab (space, noise, environment)
  • Internet Access Policy
    Internet/Web access is limited to class assignments and web research for class assignments.
  • Personal web browsing and e-mail are LOW PRIORITY ACTIVITIES and cannot be done when the lab is in demand.
  • NO PRINTING of web pages!
  • NO DOWNLOADING of software to the hard drive!
  • NO GAME PLAYING!
  • NO CHATTING!
  • Use of the Computer Applications Lab for browsing sites that may be offensive to others (e.g. pornographic, racial superiority groups, etc.) is NOT ALLOWED! This is a public, shared lab and all value systems must be respected.
  • Printing
  • Conserve paper whenever possible.
  • Only print the pages that you will be turning in, not accounting notes, menus, web pages, help files, etc.
  • If you are experiencing trouble with printing, don�t keep hitting the print command, ask for a lab assistant to help you!
  • When printing merged documents or data base reports for the first time, please get assistance with the setup from the lab assistant so you don�t accidentally print all the reports or letters, etc., for all the records in the data base. Sometimes these are tricky!
  • Virus
    If you are suspicious of your disk having a computer virus, have a staff member scan it. If a virus message shows up on the screen, STOP and get a lab assistant to look at it. We have virus protection software on our systems, which catches most viruses, but we make no guarantees!

    Logging In
    There is a computer dedicated to log in. Log in is regulated on a class by class basis. If you are required to log in, your teacher will provide you with a log in number during class. Some classes, such as CS101L, do not require log in.