University Housing at Illinois University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

User Guidelines & Tips

  • You must log in using your NetID and your "CITES" password (you cannot share your campus login credentials). https://passwords.cites.uiuc.edu/. Each lab has a machine dedicated to reset your password. Click on the CITES Password button, log in, and check the box for CITES Instructional Computing Services Password.
  • Educational use takes priority. Please be aware of people needing to use the computers for school work.
  • You need your own disk to save files. All machines have floppy drives and CD writers, or you can use a USB thumbdrive. Files left on the local hard drive will be erased. Write your name on your disk in case it's misplaced.
  • Save files early and often. Computers do freeze and crash! It's frustrating to lose data when deadlines are close and nerves are frayed! Use https://netfiles.uiuc.edu.
  • Got a really important project? Reboot the computer before starting. This resets it to a standard configuration no matter what previous users changed.
  • All print jobs have to be released by your CITES password at the Print Station. https://passwords.cites.uiuc.edu/.
  • Just barely struggling through? Ask a Peer Computing Consultant, PCC, for help. That's what we are here for!

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