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====== Account Information ====== | ====== Account Information ====== | ||
- | Prism accounts are available for all students enrolled in Computer Science major courses. | + | Prism accounts are available for all students enrolled in Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science major courses. |
- | New Users | + | ===== Obtain A Prism Account ===== |
- | New users should login to any machine in the lab as newuser (one word, all lower-case letters). This account has no password. On logging in, a program is executed which records information necessary for account | + | In order to obtain |
- | Forgotten Passwords or Unlocked Accounts | + | There are several ways to obtain a Prism account: |
- | If you forget | + | * On the Internet: Point your web browser to [[http:// |
+ | * In person, in LAS1006 | ||
+ | * In person, in LAS1002: Enter ' | ||
- | Full and Limited Access to Prism | + | ===== Change |
- | Due to limited resources, the department has implemented a system of different levels of access for Computer Science students. | + | If you forget |
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- | Limited Access: | + | |
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- | Students who have a Prism account and are not registered in a COSC course for the current semester will have Limited access to Prism. | + | |
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- | Full Access: | + | |
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- | Students who are registered in a COSC course (See exclusions above) for the current semester will have Full access to Prism. | + | |
- | Students with Full access have a seat and printing privileges in the Prism Lab. | + | |
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- | Updating Account Status | + | |
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- | Three times a year, at the Academic Drop Dates for each semester, account status is automatically updated from Limited to Full, Full to Limited, Full to Deleted or Limited to Deleted according to registration status at that time. Please note that if a limited account has to be deleted, it will not be returned to Full access before deletion. | + | |
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- | Account Deletions | + | |
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- | Prism accounts will be expired if the student isn't registered in a Computer Science course within 3 consecutive terms (including the summer session), or if | + | |
- | the student was never registered in a COSC course. The student will be notified two weeks in advance via email that the account will be deleted. | + | |
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- | Account Locking / Enforcing the Prism Policy | + | |
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- | Non compliance with any aspect of the Prism Policy may result in the immediate locking of your account. | + | |
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- | You should be aware that there are certain times when you will be asked to give up your terminal. These include: | + | |
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- | * if it is left idle for more than 15 minutes. The monitor on duty will log out your current session, and send an email message to your account. | + | |
- | * if you are playing games, and other students are waiting for a terminal. Students playing games must understand that playing a game, for however short a period, constitutes an implicit declaration that the machine is free for use by others and must immediately give up the machine if it is needed by others for work. This applies even if the player intended | + | |
- | * if the terminal you are using has been reserved either by another student (via TRS), or by a course instructor for a demonstration. Terminals and workstations in the Demo Lab, and occasionally the Senior Lab, may be reserved by Faculty for this purpose. | + | |
- | * if you lock your terminal. This is a direct violation of the Prism Use Policy and will result in the immediate locking of your account. | + | |
- | * if you are disrupting other students, you account may be locked and you will be asked to leave the lab. " | + | |
- | * if you are eating, drinking or smoking in the lab, your account will be locked and you will be asked to leave the lab. Food, drinks, and smoking are forbidden in the Prism labs. The only exception | + | |
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- | In general, | + | |
- | on duty. | + |
accountinfo.txt · Last modified: 2016/05/09 18:09 by seela