Education students are adjusting to their temporary home a mile south of Lindsey Street while Collings Hall is renovated.

Most graduate education classes are being taught in South Campus Building 4. Offices previously located in Collings Hall are also temporarily being housed there, said Bill Moakley, director of communications for the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education.

“It’s not the worst building they could have put us in ... it’s just in a very inconvenient place,” Sara Pyle, education senior said.

The building is located just south of Jimmie Austin Golf Course on Constitution Street.

There is an advantage for some education students. Since South Campus Building Four is located so close to Lloyd Noble Center, it’s not required to buy a parking permit, Pyle said.

Lloyd Noble Center offers free parking for students, according to the Parking and Transit Services Web site.

Most undergraduate education classes moved to other classrooms in the main part of campus, Moakley said.

“We had some students with questions about where their classes are, but for the most part, our students have been great,” Moakley said.

The new addition to Collings Hall will add 15,000 square feet of entirely student space to the building, including study areas, a curriculum library and classrooms, Moakley said.

The renovations will allow the curriculum library, a repository of all teaching curriculum materials approved by the state, to be moved to Collings Hall for the first time, Moakley said.

A bell tower will be added to the east entrance to help make Collings Hall a recognizable landmark, just as the glowing dome does for Gaylord Hall, Moakley said.

“[The bell] is going to be nice for our students to give them an identity as education students,” Moakley said. “Our hope is that in the future ... people will identify us with the building.”

The bell will be rung on special occasions, he said.

The renovations haven’t affected the classes being offered this semester, Moakley said.

“We were able to find spaces for everything we needed to offer,” he said.

Advising has been moved to Cate Center Building Four, Room 332. The move hasn’t affected the quality of advising, Moakley said.

“Keeping our Student Services Center so close to the main campus was a top priority for the college,” Joan Smith, dean of the College of Education, said. “The temporary location for the office is only about 300 yards south of Collings Hall, allowing our students to continue to access the Student Services Center with virtually the same ease as they have in the past.”

Workers broke ground on Collings Hall in October of last year, but classes continued in the building until the end of spring semester, Moakley said.

Moakley acknowledges that the renovations have caused some inconveniences, but doesn’t think they have been overwhelming.

“I don’t think it’s been that disruptive; it’s never 100 percent smooth,” Moakley said.

The building should be ready for use by next summer, he said.