Lab Rules - Information Technology Services

Lab Rules

  • Only current USP staff and students can use the computer labs. Users should be able to produce valid identification upon request.
  • No smoking, eating, or drinking in the labs. Keep the labs clean. Discard any unwanted printouts in the rubbish bins.
  • Virus check your floppy disks regularly.
  • Backup your work regularly on your own floppy disks (not the hard disk).
  • No meddling, deleting or alteration of any software, hardware & its settings, which may affect the USP network and members of the USP community in any way.
  • Copying of software licensed to USP is illegal except for software from the public domain drive and those approved by the lecturer concerned. Users are reminded to respect the terms and conditions of the shareware software found on the public drive.
  • Lab & computer equipment and supplies are not to be abused or misused in any way. This includes using good, clean printing sheets as scrap paper.
  • Games and software used for non-academic purposes are prohibited. Only software approved by IT Services are allowed to be used in the computer labs.
  • The Student Office Assistant (SOA) can assist users with minor software and hardware problems only such as starting a program, saving, printing, exiting programs, and to clean drives and viruses.
  • Safeguard your email account from possible hackers. Observe the rules and regulations of email usage which includes:
    • Only valid USP students & staff can have email accounts.
    • Users should not send junk/rude/offense/racist/sexist/abusive mail.
    • Users should delete unnecessary messages in their account.
    • Users should not use other user’s accounts without authorization.
    • Users should not attempt to circumvent the security and privacy features of the systems.
    • Users should keep a personal record of their used email addresses.
    • Users should not reveal his/her password to anyone.
    • Your email account will be terminated at the end of the semester or at the discretion of the University Information Technology Services.

Breaching Lab Rules and Regulation

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To All Laucala Staff and Students

Students are hereby warned to use headphones when playing audio files in the labs. Any student found using PC in-built speakers and disregarding other users in the lab, will be referred to the disciplinary committee to take further action with recommendations of the maximum penalty. All students are also requested to take note of other rules and regulations that IT Services has posted up on notice boards in all labs. Students found to be breaching these lab rules will face the same consequences as above.

Report an Offender

Students are hereby requested to notify ITS if you are a witness to students who breach rules and regulations in our labs. In order to track down offenders in our labs, students are requested to email the date, time, lab number and PC number of which the offender was using, and log it under the following Contact Page.

Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Thank you

IT Services





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