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- Advertising Creative Lab (CMA 6.202154)
- Broadcast Journalism Studio (CMB 4.128, 4.130, 4.132)Communication Sciences and Disorders Clinic Lab (CMA 2.222, 2.224)
- Computer Assisted Journalism Labs (CMA 4.300.126 & 4.152, BMC 3.208, 3.210)
- Digital Media Labs (CMA 4.204)Photojournalism Lab (CMA 6.200138, 4.140, 4.142)
- CMA Classroom Computer Labs (CMA 4.144, 4.150)
- Radio-TV-Film Studio 4B Lab Computer Labs (CMB 4.114 and CMA 5.110176)
- Classroom Teaching Consoles (various CMA & CMB meeting rooms & classrooms)
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Requests for new software installations or updates will be solicited from faculty and staff prior to the beginning of each long semester. The final “build” will be considered “complete” once two weeks before the semester begins, therefore users should plan their requests accordingly. Software installations and updates may be requested during the semester by faculty and staff, but will only be deployed on a set schedule (below). To allow for testing and administrative review, we must set software request deadlines in advance of actual deployment targets.
Regular software deployment schedule:
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Fall | Fall Update | Spring | Spring Update | Summer | |
Request deadline | 21 days prior to 1st Class Day | 5th week |
35 days prior to 1st Class Day | 5th week |
21 days prior to 1st Class Day |
Deployment target |
14 days prior to 1st Class Day | 7th week |
14 days prior to 1st Class Day | 7th week |
14 days prior to 1st Class Day |
Application and operating system preferences will remain the defaults, whenever possible. We cannot incorporate every request for preference changes without affecting other users. Additionally, students, faculty and staff working on their own computer systems will face these same defaults. Any customizations we make will could result in a configuration they are unfamiliar with.
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On Macintosh systems, this partition will be named “tempstorage.” On Windows systems, this will be the “D:\” partition. These temporary partitions are randomly cleared and should not be considered storage beyond the user's current session.
VI. Routine maintenance
User accounts will be automatically cleared (every file removed) at 5:00a.m. every Sunday morning.
VI. Routine maintenance
Computer systems will employ some mechanism to restore their configuration to the state before a user logged on. When a user logs out, this mechanism will trigger and cause any files the user has saved to the system disk, temporary preferences, bookmarks, caches, etc. to be erased. This will ensure that a system remains as “pristine” as possible, and will help to mitigate the risk that personal or confidential data is stored on lab systems. This will NOT affect any temporary storage partitions, so take care to remove personal or confidential documents you have stored there, or they are subject to exposure until the automatic clearing schedule (section V)Monday morning. In rare cases the user accounts may be cleared out more often if there has been significant activity and storage on a system that causes problems for current users.
VII. Periodic maintenance
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The University provides individual file services via the WebSpace UTBox service. See http://webspaceutbox.utexas.edu/ for more information.
For any questions about this or any College of Communication technology policy, please contact the Director of Information Technology (Charles Soto, 512-475-8661).