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, SP2 Macintosh Unit Macintosh Unit                                    
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
ADP PC Payroll Accounting Program    
Adobe Creative Suite
  Acrobat CS                                    
  Go Live CS                                    
  Illustrator CS                                    
  ImageReady CS                                    
  Photoshop CS                                    
HP Scanning Software                                      
Maya v6.0.2                                    
Math Programs
  Basic Mathematics  v2    
  Hawkins Learning Systems(Introductory Algebra)    
  Intro. Algebra v3E (CD Required)    
  Intro.to TI-30Xa (PowerPoint User Guide)    
  Math 105    
  Statdisk v9.1    
Microsoft Internet Explorer v6.0.2900, SP2(1)    
Microsoft Internet Explorer MAC                                    
Microsoft Office XP v10.6612.6626, SP2 (2)    
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003    
MOUS Ready    
New Century Handbook (The)    
Nursing Programs
  AccuCalc (CD Required)    
  AP Challenge    
  Behavioral Changes in the Elderly    
  Confidentiality    
  Delmar Critical Thinking - Nursing Fundamentals v1.0    
  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)    
  Meds Software - NCLEX-RN Success    
  Pediatrics An Interactive Program (CD Required)    
  Physical Assessment - Practical Chest Auscultation    
  Practical Health Assessment - Health Assessment v1.0    
  The Older Adult World    
  Virtual Clinical Excursions - Pediatrics (CD Required)    
  Virtual Clinical Excursions - Medical Surgical Nursing (CD Required)    
Premier AT
  E-Text Reader    
  Talking Word Processor    
  Text to Audio    
  Universal Reader    
  Ultimate Talking Dictionary    
QCTerm v0.96f    
Quark XPress v6.0                                    
Read & Read Gold (textHelp)                                      
Science Programs
  AnatLab - Head, Neck, Abdomen, Thorax    
  AnatLab - Upper and Lower Limbs    
  Blue Skys (CD Required)    
  Discovering Biology (CD Required)    
  Earth Systems Today (CD Required)    
  Saunders Interactive General Chemistry v2.5    
Simple Text v.1.4                                        
Southwestern Keyboarding
  CheckPro 2003 v5.1    
  Keyboarding Pro v4.0    
WinZip v9.0    
Word Perfect Office v11.0.0.321, SP2 (3)    
Macintosh Unit
  Unit 19 - Reserved for IT Staff
(1) In addition to the standard plugins included with Internet Explorer (for PC), Adobe Acrobat Reader v7.0, Microsoft Media Player v10.0, Real Player v10.0, Flash Player v9.0.16.0, Shockwave v10.1.3.18, DJVU (Compression Plugin for eBooks) and Apple QuickTime v7.1.0.210 have also been installed.
(2) Microsoft Office XP includes Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Excel 2002, Microsoft Access 2002, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 and Microsoft FrontPage
(3) Word Perfect Office 11 includes WordPerfect 11.0, Quattro Pro 11.0, Corel Presentations 11.0 and Paradox v11.0.

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)