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Welcome to the CS support page
If you would like to contact us directly, we can be reached at x6518 or via cs.support@wwu.edu
Account Information
Computer Science does not use the General University login or storage space on it's computers. Instead we run our own account, file, print, and web servers for the unique needs that teaching Computer Science require. Students accounts are created and the EULA and password are given to them on the first day of scheduled lab in their class. This username and password are used to authenticate in all of the CS labs, as well as on the CS servers.
Upon receipt of the password students are required to personalize their password. The security requirements we have in place, are the password must
- Contain at least 8 characters.
- Not be the account name or full name.
- Not be the same as one of the 15 previous passwords.
- Contain characters from 3 of the following 4 distinct character groups
- Uppercase (A through Z)
- Lowercase (a through z)
- Numbers (0 throught 9)
- Non-alphabetic characters (for example, ., !, $, #, %)
An easy way to come up with a password that will meet these requirements and be easy to remember is to use a proper sentence that does not contain your name.
DAA (Formerly MSDNAA) Information
Western Washington Computer Science department participates with the Microsoft Academic alliance - DAA program. This allows for students to utilize select Microsoft Software for educational purposes (Details and EULA). This includes things such as Vista, XP, Visual Studio, Access, Expression, Windows Server, SQL Server, Exchange Server, as well as others. It does not include access to licenses of the Office Suite, though for that purpose I recommend looking at OpenOffice.org. Software is distributed through E-academy.
Sign into Elms/E-academy for access to software provided through DAA.
Software is only available while you are enrolled in a class and cannot be downloaded at any other time. Your username is your MyWestern E-Mail address, and your password is E-Mailed to you from E-Academy at the beginning of the quarter. If you have forgotten your password or can't find it, you can have it re-sent from here.
Main Labs Supported
Lab Schedules
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | 145(43964) | 140(40192) | 140(40193) | 139(43437) | 8:00 am | |
| 9:00 am | 9:00 am | |||||
| 10:00 am | 145(43965) | 10:00 am | ||||
| 11:00 am | 211(42792) | 11:00 am | ||||
| 12:00 pm | 101(40187) | 141(43434) | 140(41246) | 101(40191) | 12:00 pm | |
| 1:00 pm | 1:00 pm | |||||
| 2:00 pm | 2:00 pm | |||||
| 3:00 pm | 3:00 pm | |||||
| 4:00 pm | 4:00 pm | |||||
| 5:00 pm | 5:00 pm |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | 103(41469) | 141(40885) | 141(40886) | 103(41471) | 103(41472) | 8:00 am |
| 9:00 am | 9:00 am | |||||
| 10:00 am | 10:00 am | |||||
| 11:00 am | 211(42792) | 11:00 am | ||||
| 12:00 pm | 103(41470) | 101(40188) | 101(40189) | 101(40190) | 103(41622) | 12:00 pm |
| 1:00 pm | 1:00 pm | |||||
| 2:00 pm | 2:00 pm | |||||
| 3:00 pm | 3:00 pm | |||||
| 4:00 pm | 4:00 pm | |||||
| 5:00 pm | 5:00 pm |
Full Time Support Staff
- Phillip Nordwall, Systems Manager
- Sam Hansen, Systems Administrator
Student Support Staff
- Aaron Brendehl
- Brooke Costa
Computer Usage Agreement
The University computer usage agreement can be found at http://west.wwu.edu/atus/helpdesk/useragreement.shtml.
Computer, Network, and lab usage is monitored for violations, including the recording of video in the labs.
Leaving a mess, as well as unplugging/disconnecting/removing equipment or computer usage agreement violation will result in your account being disabled for an amount of time depending on the incident.
Food and Drinks are prohibited in CF414, violation will result in account disable and being barred from the lab.