Hiring UCS Training Facilities

General Information

The University Computing Service has four training facilities that can be hired if available.

• Phoenix Teaching Room, 25 PWF Windows/Linux Workstations
• Titan 1 Teaching Room, 40 PWF Windows/Linux Workstations
• Titan 2 Teaching Room, 40 PWF Windows/Linux Workstations
• Balfour Macintosh Room, 15 PWF Macintosh Workstations

All training facilities are equipped with an instructor machine, projectors, sound systems, induction loops and sympodiums with interactive whiteboard software.

PWF Software

In general bookings can only be made if the software required for the course is currently installed on the PWF workstations and the course lecturer and students are eligible to use the software under its license agreement.

Please refer to Software on the PWF for a list of software on the PWF.

Induction of the Training Facilities

Lecturers/Trainers/Presenters that have not used the venue before or in the last year must attend an induction of the training facility within two weeks of the course, as operational support is not supplied during the course unless in an emergency.

PWF Login Accounts

Each teaching room has a number of workstations with PWF Software installed. Access to the workstations is gained by existing personal PWF accounts or for the purpose of a course by temporary course identifiers. If course identifiers are required this must be requested at the time of booking. Typically departments ask their students to use their own PWF accounts. If this is the case please remind them to have their PWF password handy.

PWF Filespace

Any files that need to be copied to the workstations must be supplied in advance of the course.

Hire Fee

Facility bookings incur a sliding scale charge dependent on the usage volume. A price will be supplied after we receive your initial booking or contact training-facilities@ucs.cam.ac.uk for further details.

Booking a Training Facility

If the software is installed on the PWF, and you would like to book a University Computing Service please supply the following information and email training-facilities@ucs.cam.ac.uk

• Facility booker contact details (dept/college/organisation, name, tel no):
• Title of the course:
• Purpose of facility booking:
• Is the facililty booking for academic teaching (yes/no):
• Lecturer/Trainer/Presenter details (name, email, tel no):
• Software and version (please check that it is available before booking):
• Operating System:
• Date(s) of Facility booking:
• Start time:
• End time:
• Setup time required (if applicable):
• Have you booked/used our training facilities before? (yes/no):
• Do you require temporary PWF course identifiers to be allocated to your students? (this is infrequent as students of the University qualify for their own PWF account) (yes/no):
• Do files need to be copied to the workstations to work on durign the course? (yes/no):