ACADEMIC POLICIES OF THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AT TRITON COLLEGE

The responsibility of the School of Architecture, Interior Design and Construction Management at Triton College is to teach you practical drawing, design and construction management skills, and a broad understanding of building science and theory.  Our faculty are committed to excellence in education.  We believe the following requirements are an important part of your learning process. We will provide a structured environment so that the greatest number of students can benefit from these educational opportunities. To maximize our efforts to provide you with the best educational experience, we expect you to develop professional attitudes regarding your studies. It has been shown through the years that when students follow these guidelines, they become successful and valuable contributors to the profession.

1. You are required to attend all classes. Listening, observing, and interacting with other students and faculty is a vital part of your education. Students who miss a class will receive an absence for that day. Your attendance will impact your grade.

2. If you are absent from class, it is your responsibility to find out from a fellow student what was presented, and what is due for the next class. You are expected to be prepared for the next class. You must complete all missed assignments so that you will not fall behind. At your Professor's option, you may be allowed to complete a special project to make up for an absence and improve your attendance grade. To see a list of potential special projects, click here.

3. You are required to be in class at the beginning time and stay until the scheduled end of the class period. Being late to class or leaving early will result in 1/3 of an absence. If you are tardy, it is your responsibility to tell your Professor that you have arrived in class, otherwise, you will be marked absent for the day.

4. There are no "Incomplete" grades given in these professional programs.

5. Late projects can only be turned in at the beginning of the following class. The highest possible grade on the late project will be a "C." If the assignment is more than one class period late, it will receive an "F."

6. There is no excused late work due to your absence from class.

7. The final project cannot be turned in late. If it is, you will be withdrawn from the course.

8. All assignments must be completed by the last day of class. If they are not, you will be withdrawn from the course.

9. If you miss the final exam, you will fail the course.

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10. Computer use in the studios in AT150 are as follows:

Your Student Computer Account:

As a matriculating student in the School of Building Science at Triton College, you will be assigned a computer account name by your teacher, such as "AIC123. " When you are assigned a computer account name, sit down at any computer in the studio and boot it. If the computer is already booted, reboot it so that the Novel network screen appears and asks for an account name and password. Type in your assigned computer account name and the generic password friday99. A “Confirm” dialogue box will appear that says:

“TCACD LOGIN-LGNWNT32.DLL-2032:
The password for User AICxxx has expired. You have 5 grace logins left to change your password. Do you want to change your password? Yes No.”

Pick “Yes.” Type in your new password and confirm it. Passwords must be eight-alpha-numeric characters, such as "jose1234.”

You will need to remember your own password because no one else will ever know it (not even your teachers or the IT Help Desk in Room AT121). Once you have logged in with the new password, the file-server program will automatically associate your new password with your account name, and will assign the drive letter H: to your account. You will have a unique H: drive visible only to you upon your login at any computer on campus. When you are done working on your projects and want to leave the studio, you must either log out of your account or turn the computer off. If you do not do either of those things, as long as your computer remains turned on, any other person will have access to your H: drive and all of your files.

When you come back to a computer and want to log on again, when the first dialogue box appears (the "Novel Client for Windows") type in your "Username" which is your AICxxx number that you were assigned in the top line and your "Password" in the second line, then select "OK." This will then bring up a another dialogue box called "Windows Workstation." It will have "AT150" in the "Name" line and the "Password" line will be blank. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ON THIS SECOND DIALOGUE BOX. Simply click on "OK." This will log you into your account.

You will have 100 Mb of storage space in your H: drive. Computer accounts will be automatically deleted one week prior to the beginning of the following semester, so you should also copy your files to your own portable media, such as a portable flash drive.

What if I forget my password?
If you forget your password or simply want to change your password for any reason, you will need to call or go to the IT Help Desk in room AT121 to have it reset. They will reset your account and give you a temporary password to use. [You may need to bring your instructor with you or take a note from your instructor saying that it is OK for you to change your password, to prevent someone maliciously changing someone else's password.] You then can go back to the studio and log in using your account number and the temporary password they gave you. A “Confirm” dialogue box will appear that says:

“TCACD LOGIN-LGNWNT32.DLL-2032:
The password for User AICxxx has expired. You have 5 grace logins left to change your password. Do you want to change your password? Yes No.”

Pick “Yes.” Type in your new password and confirm it.

The “T:” Drive:
Only the A: drive ( 3 1/2" floppy disk if one is inserted), C: drive (local hard drive), D: drive (DVD disk drive), E: drive (USB flash drive letter if one is plugged in), your H: drive, and a communal T: drive will appear on the “My Computer” list of destinations on the network. The T: drive is a shared drive which stores files such as AutoCAD standard drawings, AutoCAD Templates or files to which your teachers want you to have access. No one will be able to add files or folders to the T: drive or delete files or folders from it. You may, however, open files on the T: drive and save files from it to your own H: drive, the C: drive, or your portable flash drive. Be careful in saving files to the C: drive, because they are automatically erased when the computer is rebooted.

Working without an assigned Computer Account Number:
Anyone may use the computers in the studios and all of the software residing on them without having to have an account name assigned. You will be able to save your work to the local computer's C: drive, your floppy disk in the A: drive or your flash drive plugged into a USB port. You will also have access to the T: drive for shared drawings or files (although you cannot save your files to it). Faculty in our programs will have access to students' folders for quality control purposes. For your own protection, do not give out your account name or password to anyone.

Go Back:
The AutoCAD Autosave function saves to the C: drive. The C: drive is volatile, that is, it permanently contains only files that were saved on it prior to the “Go Back” program installation. Therefore, if a student needed to recover his or her backup file after a computer crash (rare, but it does happen), and if the computer has to be re-booted, the contents of the C: drive will be deleted, except for files that were put there prior to installing “Go Back,” which are mainly program files. Therefore, all Autosave files will have been deleted. You should know that it is possible to override the “Go Back” program. To do so, simply hit the space bar when you see the red “Go Back” bar appear on the screen. You have about 10 seconds to catch it. After you hit the space bar, a dialogue box appears saying “Are you sure you want to cancel Go Back?” Click on “Yes,” and then pick “Continue.” Then the student’s Autosave files will then be accessible so that the student may be able to recover work that was done thirty minutes prior to the crash (Autosave is set to autosave every thirty minutes).

To turn off studio computers:
When you leave your computer for the day, simply turn it off by pushing the button on the front of your computer. With the Windows XP operating system, there is no longer any need for you to log out or go through the old "Start button," "Logoff," and "Turn Off" sequence. For consistency of use for everyone, do not turn the monitors off - they will go to sleep by themselves when the computer is off and wake back up when the computer is turned on again. Life is good.

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