This document provides an agenda and overview for a computer lab management course at Serrano High School. It discusses facilities and equipment in the computer labs, including different operating systems and software. It outlines important safety rules for using the equipment properly and protecting it. The document also reviews the school's acceptable use policy for computers and networks. Finally, it encourages students to organize their time in the lab effectively and follow procedures for starting and closing their use of the workstations.

1. Computer Lab
Management 101
Computer Applications I
Serrano High School

2. Agenda
 Welcome
 Facilities: Equipment/Safety
 Lab Rules/ SHS
Acceptable Use
Policy
 Organize to
Optimize Available
Lab Time

3. Welcome

4. Purpose
 To acquaint YOU with basic lab procedures and
management
 To promote the integration of technology into
YOUR education
 To encourage YOU to use
computer labs effectively
for better use and safety

5. Facilities: Equipment

6. OS X vs. Windows XP

7. Facilities: Equipment
 PC Lab Software
 Room 420
 Windows XP
 Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access)
 Cloud Computing Software

8. Facilities: Safety
 To protect yourself and equipment, never
tamper with or remove any power
cords or cables (including mouse and
keyboard).
 To safeguard yourself and equipment, never
attempt to restart or reset
equipment without permission.
 To protect yourself and equipment, never
insert a foreign object into a
disk drive or any other part of
the computer.

9. Facilities: Safety
 Never hit a machine , smash a mouse, or abuse
a button or key
 Never tamper with or attempt to disrupt a
computer’s operating system
 Never attempt to use someone else’s password to
access the site network or Internet
 Never give out personal information over the site
network or Internet

10. Facilities: Safety
 Print only to teacher designated printers, when
instructed
 Engage only in school related activities during class
time
 Always sit at your assigned workstation
 Position keyboards to prevent bumping or
dropping them off the work surface
 Avoid blocking air vents to prevent overheating

11. Lab Rules/
SHS Acceptable Use Policy

12. Lab Rules
 Lab Rules:
 Follow All Safety Rules
 No Food, Drink, or Chewing
Gum
 All Backpacks and school
supplies need to be left by the
door. DO NOT TAKE
anything to your computer
workstation unless instructed
by the teacher
 No games of any kind, Internet
chat, instant messaging, or
personal email
 No downloading of music,
shareware, freeware, and
evaluation copies of software
from the Internet

13. Lab Rules
 Lab Rules:
 CD-ROMs and other
multimedia equipment
are for school work only
 Keep the labs clean
 Understand that
computer use is a
privilege – not a right
 Consent to the SHS
Acceptable Use
Policy…

14. Lab Rules
 This is my room and I like the way I have
arranged it. How would you like me to go into
your space and MESS IT UP?
 Changing backgrounds drives me crazy! If the
backgrounds and icons are left in place, I can
easily direct students to the correct location. If
the icons have been moved, it wastes my time
and other students’ time.

15. SHS Acceptable Use Policy
 SHS Acceptable Use Policy (AUP):
 School District Policy on rights, privileges,
and acceptable/unacceptable uses of
computers, networks, and the Internet
 Included in ALL Student Agendas
 Also found on SHS website: (Link to come)

16. Organize to Optimize
Available Lab Time
Closing your visit:
 Begin closing down when instructed by the teacher at
the end of class or WHEN THE BELL RINGS!
 Please save your work then log out (only 6th period will
shut down the computers)
 To wake the computer, shake the mouse
 All students are to remain in their seat until the bell
rings and push in their chairs and straighten their
keyboards and mouse before leaving their station.

17.  C ome to class with clean hands.
O perate the equipment properly.
M ake sure you listen to directions.
P ush your chair in when you are done.
U se your inside voice.
T ouch the keyboard lightly.
E at and drink outside the computer lab.
R emember to take your printouts with you.
 L earn something new each time you come to the lab.
A lways work toward your best, not your neighbors' best.
B e careful handling CD's.
Finally, Jennifer Wagner, technology coordinator at Crossroads Christian School, in Corona, California, provided this acrostic, sure to make
following the rules a little easier and a lot more fun!

18. . . . let’s have a great semester – Mrs. Williams