Academic Computer Services

Instructor Information

Instructors teaching in the computer labs at Edmonds Community College are entitled to a computer lab account in addition to your administrative (R230_admin) account.   You can request an account at the ACS offices on first floor Alderwood Hall.  This account will provide you access to a file share on the ACS file server to store your class files, and you will also be able to utilize other file shares to publish class resources to your students.

All currently enrolled students recieve an ACS account.  The account gives them access to the local ACS computers during the quarter and the student wireless network during the quarter.  The account also gives students access to Blackboard during the quarter, quarter breaks, and one year after their last class at EdCC.

Student Logon Handout: First time student logon instructions are available here.

Check out the Instructor pamphlet for 2008-2009.  Click here.

Account Resources

When you log into the lab computers, you will log into the Domain: ACS.   The S: Drive will automatically map to the Instructor's file share on the ACS file server.   You will have your own folder on S drive where you can save files that are only accessible by you.   Similarly, the S: Drive for students will map to student folders on the file server.

The G: Drive will map to the ACS application server, where some applications such as Gregg Document Processing are located.  Both Instructors and students have access to this folder, but should not publish any files here.

The Y: Drive will also map to the ACS application server, where instructors can publish class resources to the proper class folder.  Students will only be able to view the files or copy them to their folder and will not be able to publish to this directory.   The format for folders under the Y: Drive is ap_data\dept_name\class_name.   For instance, if you want to publish files for CIS100, you would request a folder under Y:\ap_data\CIS\CIS100 and could publish everything under there.   Please view the following link to review the new structure and guidelines for posting class materials to the Y: drive: Apdata Structure.  Please do not hesitate to ask if you have any questions.

Documents should only be stored in the above areas or on removable media such as a flash drive.   The local hard drives are cleaned out randomly, and all non-lab installed files on the local drive are deleted.  Instructor information stored on Apdata and instructor and student data stored on the S: drive is backed up weekly. At the end of each quarter all data is backed up and a copy is stored off campus in a safe deposit box.  In the event of a catastrophe that results in the damage of servers and backups on campus the instructor and student data stored off campus will be the most recent data available.

Lab Use

Reserved Class Time: Reserved time for classes is indicated in shaded areas on the schedules posted on the bulletin boards in Alderwood Hall or outside of each lab.  Lab Assistants will inform students to leave the room 10 minutes before the next class is scheduled to begin if they are not in the scheduled class.

Computer Lab Policies

For questions regarding Software Request policies, please view the Lab Software web page.

Edmonds Community College provides computers in several locations on campus for student use to supplement classroom learning.  In an effort to maintain the stability of the computers and the labs, we ask that you read and abide by our computer use policies.  Please click the following link or use the one under Quick Links to the left to review the policies: Computer Lab Policies.