Lecture Theatres

All central teaching facilities at the Crawley campus have appropriate connections for laptops. In addition, the major venues have built-in PC's in the lecturns, enabling the user to bring their presentations on a USB stick or CD instead of requiring their own laptop. The lecturn PC's can handle most commonly used files such as Powerpoint, Adobe Reader and DVD video. The PC's are also connected to the UWA Utility network enabling UWA web access. For those users who prefer to continue using laptops, this option is still available. Venues with lecturn PC's are listed below.

Laptops in lecture theatres can be connected to the internet via cable. It may be one of two connection types (in some cases both may be available).

1. A connection to the central Utility network managed by ITS. This is typically a blue cable plugged in to the side of the lecturn.

   Whether you are using a departmental laptop or your own personal one, it will need to be configured to work on the Lecture Theatre network as it is a different network to the central administration network. Please contact your departments' IT Support section, and ensure you note down any changes made to your configuration. You may need to change the settings back to connect from places other than lecture theatres.

   The basic connection gives you access to the UWA network, but not to any external sites. If you wish to browse sites external to UWA (ie the broader internet), you will need to use either the UWA Web Proxy, or make a SNAP VPN connection. Please note that you will be required to have a dialup-enabled account to use this option.

2. A connection to the Departmental network of the section that manages the building. For these, you will need to check with the particular department IT Support for how you can connect.