The technology and software available in rooms 143 and 202 allow for a wide range of direct instruction methods, and for exploring creative, collaborative, collective, and multi-modal techniques that inform contemporary literacy practices. Both rooms come with those opportunities, and with these responsibilities:
Faculty members using the room are responsible for the room’s security:
- Never leave the room with students left behind, unattended
- Never prop the door open and leave the room unattended
- Do not allow students to use the room who are not enrolled in your classes. 143 and 202 are not labs.
Assume nothing. Be sure that you know how the room currently operates before you attempt to teach in it. If you intend to execute a file type or play a kind of media you have not used before in the room, for example, you must visit the room during open hours and run tests.
Have a back-up plan. The university does not provide “emergency service” for 143 or 202.
Please invite students to be good neighbors and community members: throw away garbage and shut off monitors before leaving.
Have a problem?
The department has exclusive control over technology in the department’s offices and in McGaw classrooms 143, 202, and 205 only. If you are having problems with the technology in one of these three classrooms or in your office, complete and submit the form at wrd.depaul.edu/help. This is the only way problems will be resolved in those locations.
If you have a problem in any other classroom on campus, including other rooms in McGaw, contact ONLY the Technology Support Center (TSC or “Help Desk”) 312-362-8765. If the room in which you are meeting is equipped with technology that allows you to contact the TSC directly from the room, please use it.
As always should be the case when planning to use digital technologies in your classes–make sure that you have tested the equipment in advance so that you’ll know it will do what you want it to do, and always have a back-up plan.
Please do not contact or visit the office staff in 203 McGaw about technology issues. They have been instructed to provide only the information included here.
Printing
Printing is not available in 143 or 202 McGaw. Students can print, however, in 145 McGaw — a university lab with regular open hours — and in the lobby area just inside the main entrance.
Thanks for helping ensure a successful experience for everyone in 143 and 202 McGaw!