The intent of this article is to assist instructors and not to sound skeptical of the boss’s intent. In this day and age, money is very hard to come by after the first set up and not to wait for promised of future funding. There are some important variables to consider such as:
• How many classes will use the laboratory area in a 24 hour period. In a typical high school setting, you may have 5 or more class periods that students use the lab area.
• The lab may be also utilized by evening school.
• In a community college, the lab may be used by several different groups of students depending on scheduled day classes, evening and weekend classes.
• And there may be special training classes for regular one or two-day weekend workshops.
The more variable the schedule, the more thought you must give concerning equipment requirements. Remember that during the course of instruction, a shared workstation may not be available to all students. teaching Computer Support Service needs a good strategies.
If a student is involved with setting up partitions on a hard disk drive, and does not finish the project or completes it incorrectly, it may render the station temporarily useless, or it may affect other student’s use of the station. You may not be able to afford one computer for each and every student, but you can have at least one hard disk drive for each student. Having a hard disk drive available for each student is the next best thing to each student having their own computer station. There are also some drive selector modules that will allow you to install multiple disk drives in a single student station.