What Students Need to Know:
How to Survive, Using IT

Whether it's your first or last year as a UCLA student, chances are you probably haven't heard about all of the services available to students. There are a host of information technology resources and services on campus that aim to make student life a little easier. Our student guide is designed to help you make the right connections with technology.

Here are some of our contributors:

Bruin Online: In addition to offering free software to students, Bruin Online also offers free dial-up internet access, free email accounts, web page space, news services and technical support.

CLICC: The College Library Instructional Computing Commons (CLICC) is based out of Powell Library and offers a wide array of computing services. Both the drop-in lab on the 1st floor and the electronic classrooms on the 3rd floor offer fast internet access, word processing, and many instructional applications and graphics programs. Scanners are available at 12 stations and printing is also available. CLICC also checks out laptops to students from seven libraries around campus, which offer access to hundreds of network connections. CLICC also offers computing workshops in various software applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Photoshop. Anyone with a BruinOnline ID and password can use CLICC, and beginning the third week of the quarter, the lab is open 24 hours a day Sunday through Friday.

Campus Computing Labs website :There are many labs on campus that tailor their environments toward certain areas of study. The Humanities lab in Kinsey offers access to applications required by many Humanities courses. Social Sciences Computing features more statistical and mapping software packages to assist their students. Life Sciences Computing and the Science Learning Center provide courseware relevant to science majors. All these labs and more are detailed on the Computer labs web site.

MyUCLA: While many students often use MyUCLA to find the course websites for their current study list, many do not realize that this is only a fraction of the resources provided by the site. Gradebook, a recent addition to MyUCLA, allows professors to post grades electronically on MyUCLA for students to see. Some of the other services MyUCLA offers are a course planner, webmail, virtual counseling, a GPA calculator and links to each student's department homepage, housing, and current news items from various sources.

Free Software: Both Academic Technology Services and Bruin Online offer various software free for students including: anti-virus software, email software, telnet clients and internet browsers.

Instructional Enhancement Initiative (IEI): Ever wonder what those mysterious IEI fees on your SBAR are for? Find out all about how IEI works on their web site.