Niles Area Campus - Teaching and Learning Center - Room 140

Main Building at the Niles Area Campus Room 140, Teaching and Learning Center in the Main Building at the Niles Area Campus

The Teaching and Learning Center is one of three TLC's. The Niles Area Campus TLC is located in the Main Building at the Niles Area Campus of Southwestern Michigan College.

The TLC's provide many resources including free tutoring in all academic subjects, reference materials for many courses and computers that are loaded with software specifically chosen to assist learning.

Software Unit Number
Windows XP, SP3 Macintosh Unit                                    
1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium
  Acrobat Professional v.9                                    
  Bridge CS4 v3.0.0.464                                    
  Dreamweaver CS4 v10.0                                    
  Flash CS4 v10.0                                    
  Fireworks CS4 v10.0                                    
  Illustrator CS4 v14                                    
  In Design CS4 v6.0                                    
  Photoshop CS4 v11.0                                    
HP Scanning Software                                    
Math Programs
  Hawkins Learning Systems(Introductory Algebra) v.6.2.0  
  Intro.to TI-30Xa (PowerPoint User Guide)  
  Math 105  
  Statdisk v11.0  
Microsoft Internet Explorer v7.05730.11 (1)  
Microsoft Internet Explorer MAC                                    
Microsoft Office 2007 v12.0.6425.1000(2)  
Nursing Programs
  AccuCalc (CD Required)  
  AP Challenge  
  Behavioral Changes in the Elderly  
  Confidentiality  
  Delmar Critical Thinking - Nursing Fundamentals v1.0  
  Diet Analysis Plus v8.0  
  Delmar Lab and Diagnostic Tests  
  Enhancing Professionalism  
  Enternal Nutrition Gastrostomy and Jejunostomy Tubes  
  Ethical Decision Making v1.0  
  Fluids Electrolytes - Acid Base Balance v1.40  
  Fluids Electrolytes 2E  
  Foundations of Maternal-Newborn Nursing vE3  
  Fundamentally Fun Graphics v2.0  
  Interactive Wound Care  
  Lawsuits Against Nurses v1.0  
  Medical Terminology - Language of Health Care (CD Required)  
  Physical Assessment - Practical Chest Auscultation  
  Practical Health Assessment - Health Assessment v1.0  
  The Older Adult World  
Premier Tools v10.0
  E-Text Reader v6.21  
  Key Train Login  
  Magnify It  
  PDF Magic v5.0  
  Talking Calculator v3.1  
  Talking Dictionary v6.21  
  Talking Word Processor v10.5  
  Text to Audio v9.30  
  Universal Reader v4.3  
  Universal Reader Plus v7.01  
  Ultimate Talking Dictionary v6.21  
Quark XPress v6.0                                    
Read & Read Gold (textHelp)                                    
Science Programs
  AnatLab - Head, Neck, Abdomen, Thorax  
  AnatLab - Upper and Lower Limbs  
WinZip v9.0  
Macintosh Unit
  Unit 19 - Reserved for IT Staff
(1) In addition to the standard plugins included with Internet Explorer v.7.0, Adobe Acrobat Reader v9.1.3, Flash Player v10.0.32.18, Shockwave Player v.11.0.0.429, Microsoft Media Player v11.05721.514, Real Player v11.0.0.446, DJVU (Comporession Plugin for eBooks) and Apple QuickTime v7.62.14.0 have also been installed.
(2) Microsoft Office 2007, SP2 v12.0.6425.1000 includes Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft Access 2007, Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Publisher 2007

Hardware Specifications

18 Dell OptiPlex GX 620 Pentium 4 3.0 GHz Computers with 1 GB of Ram Running Windows XP, SP2 with DVD Rom. All computers are protected with Symantec AntiVirus software. Drivers have been installed for the USB Memory Stick which is available for purchase in the SMC Bookstore.
2 Macintosh 733 MHz PowerPC G4 Computers with 256 MB RAM with 250 MB Zip Drives running OS 10.3 (Panther)
2 HP Laserjet 4050 Printers
1 HP ScanJet 4570 Optical Scanner (Attached to Unit 18)