The Department of English helps maintain eleven of the university's computer classrooms that support a variety of composition courses— from first-year composition to more advanced courses such as business and technical communication. All classrooms have the full suite of Microsoft, Adobe, and Macromedia digital design tools; four of them—Durham 91, Ross 137, Ross 115, and Ross 420—have hardware upgrades and additional software that support the capture, editing, and production of digital video. Four other classrooms—Friley 2420, Helser 1510, Roberts 2220, and Maple-Willow-Larch C3112 and C3114—are located in residence halls and provide 24–hour access to more than 8,000 residence hall students.

For detailed information and hours of availability, please check the Information Technology Department's database of campus computer labs. A good source of general information about campus computing resources is the IT Department's FAQ database. For detailed information on using our composition classrooms, consult the links listed below.

For Students

• Logging In
• Accessing Classfiles from the Web
• Printing from Classroom Computers
• Saving Files
• Using Email

For Instructors

• Accessing Classfiles from PCs
• Accessing Classfiles from Macs
• Accessing Classfiles from the Web
• Using Classfile Folders
• Saving Files
• Printing from the Classrooms
• Maintaining Class Email Lists

For New Instructors

• Introduction
• Attributes of Computer Classrooms
• Help Services and Student Monitors
• Strategies in a Computer Classroom