Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Kuzey Kıbrıs Kampusu

PC ROOMS REGULATIONS

The PC rooms of Computer Center are established to serve the students of the university for the purposes of doing their course works and carrying out "academic" researches about their courses. To maintain the peaceful working environment of the PC rooms for the reasons mentioned above, the following activities will not be allowed:

1. Playing games, watching movies in any of the environments (CD, web etc.) and playing music loudly,

2. Viewing web pages that violate the moral codes and guidelines of the society,

3. Sending e-mail with a content that conflicts with the ethical codes of the Internet, (spam mail, storing and transferring unlicensed software)

4. Using mobile phones in the PC rooms, (since they disrupt the peaceful working environment of the PC rooms, holders of the phones must keep the silent mode of their phones on, and they should not talk on the phones in the PC rooms.)

5. Bringing food and beverage to the PC rooms, (to keep the cleanliness of PC rooms and to prevent the crumbs and residues of food and drinks giving harm to the keyboards, bringing food and beverages to the PC rooms is not allowed.)

6. Conformity with the regulations about clothing, (this is a declaration of State Higher Education Commission that is announced on November 22nd, 1999 (item 1999/4631) to the Presidency of the University and later it is distributed by the Presidency to all academic and administrative departments to be put into practice.)

7. Smoking in the PC rooms, (smoking indoors is prohibited by the law number 4207)

8. Talking loudly or working in groups, (these are not allowed in order to keep the PC rooms as silent and suitable working environments. To provide fair conditions for those students, who wish to study in groups, Dormitory II Top Floor PC Room is arranged for group studies)

9. Attempting to enter to PC rooms with somebody else's ID card, or insisting on using computers without declaring an ID.

10. Struggling with PC room officials, not taking their warnings into consideration,

11. Installing and using softwares that threaten information security,

12. Harming computer software and hardware.

PROHIBITIVE MEASURES

Reason of prohibition	Period of the user code's being blocked and unable to make use of PC rooms
Using mobile phones in the PC Rooms	1 week
Talking loudly or working in groups	1 week
Bringing food and beverage to the PC Rooms	1 week
Installing and using softwares that threaten information security	2 weeks
Playing games, watching movies in any of the environments (CD, Web etc.) and playing music loudly	2 weeks
Viewing web pages that violate the moral codes and guidelines of the society and misusing of user accounts	1 month
Attempting to enter to PC Rooms with somebody else's ID card	1 month
Struggling with PC room officials, not taking their warnings into consideration	1 month
Harming computer software and hardware	1 month
Smoking in the PC Rooms	1 week + Legal Punishment Procedures
Conformity with the Regulations about Clothing	Legal Punishment Procedures

§ During the period of prohibition penalized students' user codes on central server systems will be blocked and unable to make use of the METU Computer Center PC rooms.

§ After the expiration of penalty, users must go to room 114 at METU Computer Center and finalize the transaction.

You can send your opinion and suggestions to ncc-cc@metu.edu.tr

**These rules are subject to change in time. You can reach to up-to-date information from the following address:

http://www.cc.metu.edu.tr/ à Services à PC Rooms à PC Rooms Regulations

Reason of prohibition

Using mobile phones in the PC Rooms