Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Faculty computing facilities for both undergraduate and postgraduate laboratories are provided to assist and enhance students' educational experience while studying at UWA.

We ask all users to please treat these facilities with due care and respect.

On applying for access to the computing facilities, all student users must agree to comply with the following conditions and the disclaimer of liability.

Things to do

• Keep your password secret. If someone else gets your password, they will not only be able to use the laboratory (taking up a valuable space), they will also be able to get access to your information.
• Be aware that in order to monitor and maintain the effective running of the laboratory, the computing staff need to observe use of the facility, network traffic and its content, and can therefore read student files held on facility equipment.
• Co-operate in using the facilities in a sensible and considerate manner. This facility can only be used for coursework and for related computing of an educational nature; for example, exploring the internet for materials related to courses. In the latter case, if another student is waiting for a machine on which to do coursework, you must relinquish the computer to them.

Things not to do

• Cause damage to equipment or laboratory facilities, either willfully or through negligence.
• Allow access to your account by another student (for example, by divulging your password).
• Use another student's account.
• Disrupt other students by talking, or (except when using headphones) playing music or lecture recordings.
• Access another user's files without explicit permission.
• Attempt to circumvent any form of hardware or software protection, or any prescribed resource limits.
• Perform any action, such as the reproduction, installation or use of unlicensed software, that is in breach of the Copyright Act.
• Install unauthorised software on any faculty computers.
• Delete or modify installed software.
• Compromise the physical security of the laboratory; for example, leaving prop doors open, leaving the laboratory unattended with windows open, or tampering with video cameras.
• Bring food or drink into the laboratory.
• Leave bags or packages unattended in the laboratory.
• Grant admission to anyone else to the laboratory.
• Perform any deliberate action that disrupts or adversely affects the use of the facilities by other staff or students.

Explicitly, all laboratory users grant permission to Faculty staff to observe all use of the facilities, network traffic and its content, and to read any student data held on or transported by Faculty equipment in order to monitor and maintain the effective running of the facility.

Your use of these facilities is granted under the condition that you will abide by these regulations. Notwithstanding other penalties, if you breach these conditions of use we may withdraw your access to these facilities.

Disclaimer of liability

By accessing its IT services, users accept and agree that the University of Western Australia provides IT services with reasonable care and skill.

However, insofar as the Law permits, the University makes or implies no warranty as to the quality, continuity, life or wear of any materials or services supplied, or that they will be suitable for any particular purpose or for use under any specific conditions.

Nor does the University and its staff accept any responsibility for the use which you make of advice or information which they give, of opinions which they express, or of materials, services, certificates or documents which they supply.

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