If you get a chance to walk around campus between classes, you'll probably see a fair number of students running to cheek e-mail at one of the many public computer labs around campus, or pulling out laptops to surf the net at WI-Fi hubs in the Sayles-Hill Students Center or in the McKinley Gould Library, also known as the Libe. Many Student will be rushing to post comments for a class on Moodle, Carleton's course-management system. Through Moodle, classes can create on-line forums for further discussion or questions outside of the classroom. All Carls also have access to a central server where they can access useful course materials, and more and more students can access most or all of their readings for certain classes online.
Carlrton is both Mac-and PC- 'friendly', although most classroom computer are Macs. Most students do own a computer, and laptops are useful, especially when they want to escape from distracting roommates and retreat to the depths of the Libe to write a paper. There are, however, plenty of computers around campus for student use, although finding an unused one can become quite a challenge during finals. If computers decide to revolt right before comps are due, workers at the Student Computing Information Center, or the SCIC, are there to help.
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