Upon entering the Lab, students must fill out the "sign-in" sheet located at the front desk and show their Cane Card to the Lab Assistant on duty.
Instructors in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department have the ability to reserve the Modern Languages Laboratory (MB 201) or the Teaching Computer Lab (MB 205) during their class time for a variety of uses including:
- Holding class (using the computers to access modern language related websites, news, etc…)
- Having students perform Internet activities
- Allowing students to work on audio/visual exercises in the class workbook
- Utilizing software available in the Lab
- Zoom Virtual Immersion sessions
The MLL LAB Calendar is a tool that can be used by students to view the dates and times of when the Lab in MB 201 has already been reserved, AND THEREFORE WILL BE CLOSED TO STUDENTS. The Teaching Computer Lab (MB 205) is NOT an open access student computer Lab, so access is only granted to students arriving for a professor-made reservation.
NOTE: Students who require tutoring that is offered during Lab (MB 201) closures may enter the Lab at these times.
The Calendar page can be found by going to the MLLAB homepage which is:
http://www.as.miami.edu/labs On this page, there is link titled
Lab Calendar, which allows you to view the Calendar.
No food or drinks are allowed in the Lab at anytime.
Students are expected to be as quiet as possible while in the Lab.
Please take cell phone calls outside of the Lab.
The Laboratory offers several types of support services to students enrolled in modern language courses:
Website
The Lab maintains a Website (www.as.miami.edu/labs) that contains detailed information regarding the Lab’s services, activities, and resource materials.
USB drive restrictions
IMPORTANT: The computers will not accept any USB drives as to protect the copywritten videos in the Digitized DVDs folder. Students should save their work regularly so it is not lost in case of computer problems, and then either email the files to themselves or upload to a cloud storage service such as Dropbox. All user data, saved or not, is erased everytime a computer restarts. The Lab is not responsible for the loss of any work.
Remote Access
- Class book related audio and video materials can also be accessed remotely.
- A login/password can be obtained from your instructor.
- To access the audio and video resources go to
- http://www.as.miami.edu/labs,
- and follow the Remote Access link.
Audio-visual Materials
- Digitized audio files are available in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. Students can listen to these files in the Lab.
- Instructional video tapes are available in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
- Films on DVD, and in the Digitized DVDs folder (based on instructors' requests for each semester) located on each computers desktop are available in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. Students can only watch these videos in the Lab.
In order to check out any audio/visual material to use in the Lab, students MUST present their 'Cane Card.
