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Students | Services and facilities

Reception

Reception is located at the main Administration Office in the Administration Building and is open daily (excluding Public Holidays and weekends) from 8.30am to 4.30pm. Reception staff can help you with most enquiries and you can pay your College Accounts, withdraw money from your bank or other account using EFTPOS and speak to other administration staff as follows:

Student Administration Officer

If you have a question or a problem regarding tuition fees, course procedures, appeals, deferments, exemptions, credit granted, recognition of prior learning or results you should speak to the Student Administration Officer.

Residential Supervisor

If you have a question or a problem regarding on-campus accommodation, you should speak to the Residential Supervisor.

Campus Manager

If you have a question or a problem regarding any other area of student services or College Administration, you should speak to the Campus Manager.

Library

The Library specialises in catering for Longerenong students with a large range of books, multimedia materials and journals available. It holds approximately 10,000 books and 300 video tapes, and subscribes to approximately 100 journals and most major newspapers.
This is a specialist library catering for the students of Longerenong. Access to other library resources through inter-library loans can be arranged. It is open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday to Thursday and 9:00 am to 4:00 pm on Friday. For details on the full range of services available visit the Library Services page.

Visitors

Parents visiting students may wish to stay at the campus motel. The motel has two double units and one single unit. Reservations are essential and can be made through the Residential Supervisor.

Banking

We do not have a bank agency at the College, however students can withdraw cash from their account(s) using our EFTPOS facility. Withdrawals are limited to a minimum of $10 and a maximum of $100 per day. The EFTPOS facility is located at Reception.

Bookroom

We have a Bookroom which sells stationery, prescribed text books and College promotional items and memorabilia. The Bookroom is located in the Library.

Student Counsellor

We employ a counsellor who is available to help students with personal, academic, financial or any other problems they may experience while studying at the College. This strictly confidential service is free.

Information Technology Resources

We have a modern computer laboratory in the Agribusiness Centre that is available for casual use when it is not being used for teaching. It comprises 20 personal computers running Windows and connected to the local area network (LAN). There are also 4 computers for student use in the Library. To use these computers, students require a user account for the LAN. Application forms for a user account are available from Reception.

During semester, the Computer Laboratory is open from 8:00 am to 11:00 pm. Access after 5:00 pm depends on students not abusing the privilege by misusing the equipment, vandalism, theft or leaving the room untidy. Weekend and public holiday access is by arrangement and also depends on students not abusing the privilege.

Software includes Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer and other agricultural and accounting related applications. All software held by the campus is subject to copyright laws.

Students are able to save documents and other files to their own personal share (directory) on the LAN server. Files saved on the LAN are backed up each weeknight (except Public Holidays). This is not a guarantee against loss of data and the College will not accept responsibility for any such loss. Students are therefore advised to keep a back up copy of their important documents and files on suitable media such as memory sticks.

The internet can be accessed from any computer on the LAN and internet use is restricted to study related purposes. Similarly, use of the College email account created for each student should be confined to study related purposes.

All students have a weekly internet download limit that applies for websites external to the College. If you access a lot of external websites, you may rapidly use up your download quota. Please note that your internet quota is not time-based. It is a measure of all the information from external sites (text, images, video, files, etc) that is displayed on a screen, played on a computer or downloaded to a computer. The weekly internet download limit is 50Mb. Once this limit is reached, your access to the internet and email will be blocked.

There is a black and white laser printer in the Computer Laboratory that every computer will print to by default. There is a colour laser printer in the Library. Printing is logged and charged at 15 cents per A4 side for black and white and 60 cents per A4 side for colour. This charge is made at the end of each term.

Students can minimise their printing cost and help the environment by limiting their printing. For example, editing documents on screen rather than printing the documents for correction will not only save money it will also help the environment by saving paper. Please note that all waste paper must be placed in recycling bins.

Computer Viruses

In a shared computing environment, there is always the chance that computer viruses may be present. To minimise the chance of infection and transmissions, files to be copied onto College computers should be checked for viruses using the anti-virus software installed on every College computer.

Mail

Incoming mail for on campus students is placed into their personal mail box by lunch time Monday to Friday. The student mail boxes are located on the outside wall of the main Administration Building. Note that students will only be given a key to their mail box after they have lodged a $15 key deposit.

Outgoing mail can be posted in the post box on the outside wall of the main Administration Building. Stamps can be purchased at the Bookroom. The post box is cleared by 8.30 am Monday to Friday.

Parking

Students require a permit to be able to bring a motor vehicle onto the College and park it. Application forms are available from Reception. There are day student car parks to the south of the Agribusiness Centre and at the Agricultural Engineering Centre and the covered car park for resident students is to the north of the Agribusiness Centre. Students are not permitted to park their vehicles in any other area of the College.

Recreational and Sporting Facilities

The Bristol Building is the hub for student social and recreational activities at the College. It has student lounges with entertainment systems, a pool table, table tennis and an outdoor area.

Our swimming pool has change rooms, shade structures, an electric barbecue and garden furniture in lawn surrounds.

Our sporting facilities include a modern squash court and gymnasium, badminton courts, tennis courts, a netball court and a sports oval.