Monitor Duties

Your computer lab is always staffed by a student lab monitor who’s there to help you.   While the lab monitors cannot do your homework for you, here’s a list of things your monitor can help you with:

• Help logging on or off the lab computers
• Help saving your work for future use
• Help with elementary uses of the Microsoft Office applications, including:

Word

How to format a document

How to insert page numbers

How to insert a picture or chart

How to spell-check a document

How to import data from Excel

Excel

How to make a chart from data in a spreadsheet

How to sort data in a spreadsheet

How to export data into Word

How to insert rows and columns

PowerPoint

How to start making a presentation

How to specify slide transition characteristics

How to add a slide into an existing presentation

• Keeping the printers stocked with paper and clearing minor paper jams and reporting major paper jams to technical support for clearing
• Clearing up debris left behind by thoughtless students
• Securing personal property left behind by forgetful students
• Reminding students in quiet-study labs to be considerate of neighboring students
• Monitoring lab equipment, reporting hardware and network problems
• Preventing or Reporting misuse of lab equipment by people in the lab
• Identifying and reporting building problems such as water leakage or power failure