Students must have the requirements listed below:

• DSL, or cable, High Speed broadband Connection (Dial-up/Modem Connection won’t work for these courses) connection speed must be 178kbps or higher
• Internet service provider (ISP) account
• 1.2 GHz or greater (Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon processors)
• Windows® 2000, XP, Vista*
• Microsoft® Office 2003 or higher
• Microsoft® Word
• Microsoft® PowerPoint
• Microsoft® Excel (for selected courses)
• Microsoft® Access (for selected courses)
• Microsoft® Visio 5.0 or later (for selected courses)
• A current anti-virus application
• 1GB RAM or greater
• 30GB hard drive or larger
• 1024x768 or greater monitor and video card
• Sound card with speakers
• Access to a digital camera or web camera to take pictures for documentation of work done
• You must supply a monitor to use with the computer kit
• DVD, Floppy Drive, USB port 2.0
• Inkjet or laser printer
• E-mail address
• Browser Software
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 7.0 or later
  • Mozilla FireFox 3.0 or higher

* Hard Drives must be formatted in NTFS

We strongly suggest that you have the following computer skills before starting classes:

• Having and owning a computer at home is going to be a big help
• Time management
• Like to read a lot and follow directions closely
• Be able to use a computer to: Email, Send Email attachments, surf the “Web”, navigate of computer system, opening programs, save and open files in different formats, cut and paste text, knowledgeable of Word Processing, able to download files and save them to different locations on your computer.