University students can surf, research, print or use the email service at around 250 public computer workstations with direct internet access.
Three course rooms with PC workstations are available to teaching staff from the departments and institutions for conducting training courses.
The computers are located at a total of 5 locations (BITS SPACE, PC pool B02, course rooms).
Room | PCs | Scanner | Software |
---|---|---|---|
B01-006 (BITS SPACE) |
52 | 4 | Software list |
B02-220 | 34 | -- | Software list |
Room | PCs (incl. Teaching-PC) |
Beamer | Software |
---|---|---|---|
U0-131 | 15 | Yes | Software list |
U0-139 | 30 | Yes | Software list |
U4-120 | 29 | Yes | Software list |
In addition to the computers in the PC rooms, there are PCs in the departmental libraries. These have the software equipment of the PC pools.
For students who depend on the use of the software of the PCs and do not have the possibility to work on site, they can request approval for virtual use from their teaching staff, instructors, lectures.
Further information here (in German).
Our PC rooms offer a quiet working atmosphere that enables concentrated PC work at individual workstations.
We therefore ask all users to adhere to the basic rules:
Students have the opportunity to make printouts required for their studies in the PC pools. These are free of charge, in black and white and on A4 paper at the printers of BITS and the library.
Procedure:
If print jobs are not printed after 2 hours, they expire automatically.
Limit: 200 pages per day (from 31 March 2025).
For sustainability reasons, the limit is intended to reduce paper and toner consumption, which is caused by large print jobs with many pages. Very large print jobs also block the devices for a very long time and lead to waiting periods. This procedure is initially being trialled to determine whether this will be the final solution for limiting.
Notification if the limit is exceeded
If the daily limit is exceeded when a print job is sent, a corresponding notification is displayed on the Windows PC via a pop-up in the taskbar. In addition, the PaperCut printing system sends an email to the university email address.
Explanation: Daily limit ≠ 200 sheets of paper and daily limit ≠ printed pages
The daily quota is 200 pages per person. For the system, this is 200 pages to be printed, which may not be the same as the sheets of paper used. The system also counts the pages of the print jobs sent and not the final printed pages.
Example:
If the "Double-sided" option (recommended setting) is used for a print job of 10 pages, these are printed on 5 sheets of paper. However, 10 pages will then be deducted from the daily quota. If this print job is not released at a printer or it expires automatically after 2 hours, 10 pages will also be deducted from the quota.
The software equipment of the workstations in the public PC rooms may differ. Course instructors should therefore inform themselves about the installed programs before the start of the course (see equipment under PC rooms). If additional software or other versions of already installed products are required, BITS should be informed in good time (at least 2 weeks before the start of the course).
If course participants do not have an account in BITS, access authorizations can be activated for the project duration:
Application for guest accounts
Roomreservations should be made as early as possible via the electronic course catalogue (ekvv) (central Room Scheduling).
BITS
Mo.–Fr. 08:00–16:00 h
Tel.: 0521 106-12777
E-mail: bits@uni-bielefeld.de
Virtual-Use-PC-Pools-over-Citrix (in german)