Work environment and educational platforms
The Computer Science department offers 3,600 m² of space dedicated to teaching.
This includes 14 computer labs, representing more than 250 workstations where students can access both personal and shared resources.
The department also provides 10 tutorial rooms and 6 lecture rooms, all equipped with interactive screens.
In line with its strong emphasis on hands-on learning, the department also provides a range of pedagogical platforms.
These facilities enable the teaching staff to develop innovative and high-quality practical activities.
Network and System Administration Labs
Three rooms are dedicated to network and system administration practice.
Students can build physical network topologies and work as administrators using Cisco equipment in a Linux-based sandboxed environment.
These rooms are also used to prepare students for certifications such as Cisco CCNA and Linux certifications.
Augmented Reality Platform
Dedicated equipment such as Kinect, Razer Hydra, Leap Motion devices, HD projectors, and infrared sensors allows the development of immersive augmented reality applications.
Self-hosted cloud infrastructure
An on-premises OpenStack cluster in high-availability mode provides access to compute, storage, and network resources through virtual machines.
This infrastructure offers 5.4 TB of RAM, 150 TiB of storage, subnets totaling 4,300 IP addresses, and more than 800 CPU cores.
Resources are made available on demand to the teaching staff through the creation of dedicated projects.
Images are preconfigured with the necessary libraries and settings so that students can get started quickly.
Support can also be provided to create new images tailored to specific project requirements.
Collaborative GitLab Forge
A self-hosted GitLab instance is deployed to allow students and staff to collaborate in realistic production conditions.
The platform forge.univ-lyon1.fr hosts several thousand users and tens of thousands of projects.
Robotics and Embedded Systems
Equipment including Lego Mindstorms (NXT, EV3), AR.Drone, Arduino, Intel Galileo, and ARM-based devices is available for teaching robotics and embedded systems.
ASKER - Exercise Creation Tool
ASKER (Authoring tool for aSsessing Knowledge genErating exeRcices) is an authoring tool that uses exercise templates to generate many variations,
allowing students to practice and self-assess efficiently.
Messaging and collaboration platforms
The department provides open-source messaging and workflow platforms to facilitate collaboration between students and teachers:
Online meetings
The department makes available a self-hosted BigBlueButton instance for online meetings.
Its customizability, integration capabilities and many interactive features makes it greatly valuable for remote teaching.
VPN access
Services restricted to the campus network can be accessed from home using a VPN.
Lyon 1 other tools
Many others tools are available through the university Claude Bernard Lyon 1 such as :
- Moodle (Online learning platform with creation and interaction tools)
- Tera (File-sharing service)
- Tomuss (Centralised plateform for academic monitoring)
- Doua's Datacenter (Offering many services related to computation and data processing/management)