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Changes Related to Student Computing Resources

This page serves to outline pending and recently completed changes to the computing environment for students working with the IT Services supported student-access lab workstations, floating/fixed classroom workstations, and/or workstations in the dedicated multi-station classrooms (hereafter referred to collectively as supported stations).

Pending 3/26/08

  • Microsoft Windows Vista

  • A trend within higher education indicates that many customers (not all) have experienced problems with general deployment of this operating system without upgrades to hardware and software components.
  • We anticipate the operating system upgrade to Student access labs will occur between Summer II and Fall 2009.

Networked Software Updates

(January, 2008 - March, 2008)

Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.2
  • A utility used to view and print Adobe PDF documents
  • Updated to the latest version in all student labs.
Adobe Acrobat Flash Player 9.0.115.8
  • Updated to the latest version in all student labs.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
  • Speech recognition software package produced by Nuance Communications for Windows PCs
  • Available for students at the ADA station in each lab from: Student Access Labs > Adaptive
Kurzweil 3000
  • A tiered assistive reading, writing and learning medium, aimed at students with learning disabilities or other disabilities that make reading or writing difficult
  • Available for students at the ADA station in each student access lab from: Student Access Labs > Adaptive
Mental Health Nursing II & III
  • Provides instruction on psychiatric disorders to nursing students
  • Available for students to install from: Student Access Labs > Academic > Nursing

(updates from October, 2007 to November, 2007)

Adobe Presenter 6
  • A PowerPoint plug‐in that allows the creation of flash‐based multimedia slide‐shows
  • Available for students to install from:Student Access Labs > Internet > Installs. Once the application has been installed, it will be available as a tab in PowerPoint 2007 or as a menu item in PowerPoint 2003.
Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.1
  • A utility used to view and print Adobe PDF documents
  • Available for students through: Student Access Labs > Internet
Endnote X1
  • A software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies
  • Available for students through:Student Access Labs > Research > Installs Subsequent launches from: Student Access Labs > Research
Paint Shop Pro Photo XI
  • A graphics manipulation program
  • Available for students to install from: Student Access Labs > Graphics > Installs Subsequent launches from: Student Access Labs > Graphics
SigmaPlot 10
  • A graphing program designed to aid in documenting and publishing research, specializing in the graphical presentation of results
  • Available for students to install from: Student Access Labs > MathStats > Installs (Subsequent launches from:
    Student Access Labs > MathStats)
The Geometer’s Sketchpad 4.07
  • educational math software
  • Available for students to install from: Student Access Labs > MathStats
Unsealer
  • A utility used to open copyright protected or “sealed” media
  • Available for students to install from: Student Access Labs > Internet > Installs Once the application has been installed, any media protected with the “SealedMedia” application may be opened subject to the license restrictions on that media.

NOTE:

Supplemental to this, a detailed list of available software is available at the Student-Access Lab Software page. A list of labs is available on the Student-Access Computing Facilities page.

Changes to the environment are mandated by:

  • Support issues (i.e., a software product or hardware component is no longer supported by the source company),
  • Faculty requests for software upgrades in support of their course work,
  • Bugs or other problems that must be corrected,
  • Expiration of warranties on hardware, and
  • Our desire to provide the most current software and hardware possible.