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Computer labs

BEC 180 – Graphics & modeling lab

Classroom with rows of computer desks facing instructor station.

Lab details

Teaching lab/drop-in

Room type
Teaching lab/drop-in
System type
Windows
Mon-Fri
8am-9pm
Sat-Sun
Closed
Holidays
Closed
Capacity
32
Availability

Location

Accessibility information

This room is located on the basement level with elevator access from the BEC building lobby. The lobby doors may be locked on weekends, but you can contact Campus Security for access.

There is one computer with an electric height-adjustable desk.

What's in this lab

BEC 180 has 32 Windows workstations equipped with discrete graphics cards and additional software for digital graphics modeling, and rendering. It has:

  • Instructor station set-up for lecture capture with webcam
  • Standard classroom video data projector and speakers
  • Full wall chalkboards

Printing is available in black-and-white and colour.

Software

This room uses the general Windows lab software set as a baseline. It also has Blender, ImageMagick Studio and these Adobe CC (Creative Cloud) apps:

  • Acrobat Pro
  • Animate
  • Audition
  • Character Animator
  • Dreamweaver
  • Illustrator
  • InCopy
  • InDesign
  • Lightroom Classic
  • Photoshop
  • Premiere Pro
  • Premiere Rush
  • Substance 3D Painter

Software in computer labs changes frequently. We add, remove and update apps several times a year, usually based on course requirements. This page only lists software that's part of our standard build, which remains relatively consistent from one term to the next. You can search all software currently installed in labs using AllSight.

The general lab software for Windows configuration provides common and versatile tools for scholarship in science, humanities and interdisciplinary fields.

  • ACD/NMR
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader (or Pro) PDF viewer
  • Audacity audio editor
  • Beyond Professional Browser
  • calibre e-book reader
  • ChemDraw
  • Cyberduck FTP client
  • Dynare
  • Echo 360 Universal Capture
  • EViews
  • File Open
  • GIMP image editor
  • Google Chrome
  • Google Earth Pro
  • Handbrake media encoder
  • HLM
  • MATLAB
  • Mercury
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Microsoft OneDrive sync client
  • Microsoft Power BI Desktop
  • Microsoft Teams and video meetings and chat
  • Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • MikTeX
  • Minitab
  • Notepad++ text and code editor
  • OBS Studio livestreaming
  • Open JDK
  • PanDoc
  • Praat
  • Respondus LockDown Browser
  • R Statistics and RStudio
  • SPSS (IBM)
  • Stata/BE and Stata/SE
  • Twine
  • Visual Studio Code text and code editor
  • VLC media player
  • Zoom Workplace video meetings
  • Zotero reference manager

Layout

Booking

This room is available for instructor and staff bookings. Please note that academic courses are given priority. For more information about academic and non-academic bookings, see our teaching lab booking page.

Academic booking Non-academic booking

Support

If you’re having problems with lab equipment, software, or the space, please see a staff member at the BEC 165 support desk.

You can also contact us for help with any questions about UVic technology, services, or accounts.