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Help for Students with Disabilities Help for Women and Returning Adults Getting Your Computer Ready for E-Learning |
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Helmke Library In this information age, there is abundant information on the Web, in the news
media, and even in books. With this abundance come great possibilities for you as a
student. In a few keystrokes, you can retrieve a quality and quantity of information that
would have taken hours to locate even a year ago. This wealth of information can
present problems, however, when finding the right information becomes like looking for
a needle in a haystack. As an academic library, Helmke Library is designed to allow you
to make the best use of your time and effort as you look for information for your classes,
your projects and papers, and your life as an IPFW student. Click here for more information about the services that Helmke Library provides. |
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Center for Academic Support and Advancement The Center for Academic Support and Advancement provides and coordinates access to academic support services on campus. The core mission of CASA is to help all students within the IPFW community achieve academic success. Specifically, our mission is to help under prepared students to prepare, prepared students to advance, and advanced students to excel. CASA provides free academic support to all IPFW students through these services in Kettler G18 - G21:
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Services for Students with Disabilities Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) at IPFW and is located in the Walb Student Union, Room 113, and is staffed by certified professionals to assist all enrolled students with qualifying disabilities in accordance with Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The main office telephone number is 260-481-6657 for either voice/TTD. Some examples of the services and accommodations SSD routinely provides or coordinates for distance education students include the following:
Possible use of adaptive equipment and the dedicated SSD assistive computer technology lab for various academic access needs is available for students as required for equal academic access. Voice recognition programs, two and four track tape recorder loan program, text reading machines, scanners, spell checker devices, one-hand format keyboards, foot-controlled mouse devices, wireless remote keyboards and mouse devices, portable hand held CCTV loan program, magnification software, and use of the open lab ADA computer workstations at multiple computer labs across the IPFW campus are resources for all registered SSD students with disabilities. Visit the SSD web site for more information about any of these services. |
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Center for Women and Returning Adults As an adult student, you will face the challenge of balancing multiple roles and commitments. Yet, your experience, motivation and focus will assist you in achieving your goals. Take the time to get to know your professors and others on campus who can help make a difference. We welcome you to one of the most challenging and rewarding times of your life and encourage you to take advantage of all of the student services and opportunities that IPFW has to offer. The Center for Women and Returning Adults (CWRA) welcomes you to IPFW. We provide a continuum of services directed toward an extremely diverse subculture within the campus community. The nature of our services extends beyond the campus or student life spectrum into the life-planning arena that is specific to non-traditional students or individuals and family members. The center advocates for returning adults by providing academic, financial, and personal guidance, while simultaneously familiarizing them with the network of services available on campus. Childcare, housing, financial and domestic abuse issues also require that our services be directed from the campus to the community. Visit the CWRA web site for more information and to keep current with the center's programs, events, and services geared specifically towards your needs. |
Practically any modern computer with a dial-up modem or DSL or cable connection and a reasonable amount of disk space, processing speed and memory can be used for eLearning. However, DSL or cable is preferred over dial-up and the more processing speed and memory you have, the faster the system will upload and download information and move from page to page. Some students have reported problems or frustrations taking tests in eLearning from dial-up connections due to the large size of some testing databases. If attended to before class starts, the following important "tune-up" steps for your web browser will reduce the amount of time you have to spend on technological issues. The first step is to turn off all pop-up blocking, spy ware and ad ware. If you are using this software, including anti-virus and firewall software, search through the software's menu functions to deactivate any pop up blocking functions during an eLearning session. More information on browser pop-up blockers is available here. The second step is remove all specialized search toolbars from your browser menu. Instructions for doing this can be accessed by clicking here. The third step is to actually "tune-up" your browser. Instructions for tuning up Internet Explorer and other browsers can be found here. Additional troubleshooting information is available here. A series of short video tutorials about eLearning are available here. In addition, eLearning is a topic covered by STEPS - free technology workshops for IPFW students. More information about STEPS is available here. |
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