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PC rooms

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).

Scope of services

Room overview

PC-Pools

Room PCs Scanner Software
B01-006
(BITS SPACE)		 52 4 Software list
B02-220 34 -- Software list

Course rooms

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

PCs in the library

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.

Use of virtual PCs

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).

Opening hours

PC Room

Room

 Mon–Fri
h		 Weekend and Holiday
h
PC Pool B01-006
B02-220		 07:00–22:00
07:00–22:00		 08:00–22:00
08:00–22:00
Course room U0-131
U0-139
U4-120		 07:00–22:00
07:00–22:00
07:00–22:00		 08:00–18:00
08:00–18:00
for courses only

Rules of conduct

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:

  • Please keep quiet and avoid loud conversations.
    Exceptions: In the large pool area of BITS SPACE and in course rooms if conversations are necessary as part of an event.
  • Please mute mobile phones and do not make calls.
  • Carrying drinks is permitted. The consumption of other drinks and food is not permitted.
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Environmentally conscious printing

  • Print only as much as absolutely necessary.
  • Print multi-page documents double-sided and/or 2 on 1.
  • Check whether documents can also be used purely digitally.

All these things can save paper and toner and thus contribute to more sustainability.

Printing

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:

  1. Open the document to be printed on the PCs in the BITS SPACE Pool (B01-006) or in the PC Pool (B02-220).
  2. Select the printer with the name"studiprint" and send the print job.
  3. Go to one of the printers in BITS SPACE (B01-005) or the library and hold the UniCard up to the reader. An automatic registration will take place and the print jobs will be displayed.
  4. The printout can now be started.

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.

Notes for teaching staff, instructors, lectures

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).

Voraussetzungen

Target group

  • Students
  • Employees (teaching staff)

Approval

  • BITS account + AD password

Support

BITS
Mo.–Fr. 08:00–16:00 h
Tel.: 0521 106-12777
E-mail: bits@uni-bielefeld.de

Anleitungen

Printing

Virtual-Use-PC-Pools-over-Citrix (in german)

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