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Code of Conduct
All students and staff of the School are required to abide by this code of conduct when using the School's Computing facilities. Breaches of this code will be reported to the Head of School and may incur disciplinary action.
In this code the word computer represents any Workstation, IBM PC or compatible, Macintosh computer and associated equipment (such as printers, scanners etc) owned by or located in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
1. The facilities are available for use by staff for appropriate teaching, research and administrative purposes. Students may use the facilities for directed learning, tutorial work, assignments or research in the approved courses for which they are registered users.
2. The resources are finite and in great demand, therefore, they are not to be wasted nor consumed by inappropriate and irresponsible computing. Users must not: - produce unnecessarily long and/or badly formatted computer output
- reprint jobs which have failed without having made proper efforts to locate the errors
- play games, send junk mail, etc
- modify or delete resident files
- send offensive or nuisance messages to other users
- view images, sounds or video not related to studies
- browse on-line publications not related to studies
- leave computers unattended or locked for periods over 5 minutes
3. Users must behave themselves in the laboratories and must: - not engage in loud noise
- immediately report evidence of a virus or machine failure to the nearest supervisor
- keep terminal areas and print stations clean and tidy, especially by disposing of waste paper in the appropriate recycling bin
- never eat, drink or smoke in the laboratory
- respect other users' output by not interfering with printer outputs except to separate or shelve them
- promptly collect printer output
- replace chairs which have been moved
4. Specific activities not allowed include: - disabling of any computer
- remain in a booked laboratory when asked to leave
- excessive occupancy of computer workstations
- using false names to gain access to any computer
- doing non-university work including web browsing
- simultaneously occupying more than one computer whilst other users are waiting
5. Users will be liable to disciplinary action for serious misuse of the Schools computer facilities through activities which include: - unauthorised entry into any computer laboratories
- attempting to crash the computer system
- attempting to circumvent the security and privacy features of the computer system
- use of other user's accounts
- giving others access to your account
- unauthorised copying of licensed or School software
- copying unauthorised or unlicensed software to their home directory or elsewhere
- removing, damaging or corrupting School notices
- causing wilful damage to any equipment, furniture or fittings
- stealing
- viewing or storing any offensive material (images, text, sounds, movies) via a web browser or any other package
- downloading unauthorised material
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