New Student Checklist

Campus Standard Desktop & Laptop Computers

Intel, AMD, and PowerPC based computers will work on our network.

The campus standard is Dell (desktops or laptops) running Windows XP and Microsoft Office XP or newer.

All computers will also require an ethernet network card installed to access the internet, either onboard or as a card, and the network settings should set to automatic, which is the default setting.

Campus Standard Operating Systems

Windows XP
Windows 2000
Mac OSX

(An operating system is the software platform that a computer uses to run applications)

Campus Standard Productivity software

Office 2000
Office XP
Office 2003

(Microsoft Office consists of: Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Access, etc.)

Campus Standard Student Storage

We highly recommend students have a pen drive (USB Portable) with a 128MB or better capacity for storing information. Floppy disks are not recommended for data storage.