Requirements & Skills for Distance Education Courses

Please Read This Before You Register for any INT Course

All students taking INT courses must have access to a computer, e-mail, a word processor program,and the Internet. All students enrolling in an INT course (new students or first-timers - take NOTE) must complete a Distance Education Student Information Form, supply a valid e-mail address to the Registrar's office, and consult with the Director of Instructional Support Services/Distance Education (716-829-8147), or his assistant, (716-829-8133) on computer and connectivity requirements. D'Youville's Internet courses can be found on the Web at http://ddl.dyc.edu or at http://bb6.dyc.edu.

Component	PC/Intel - based system	Macintosh
CPU	Pentium or higher	PowerPC
RAM	128 MB or greater	128 MB or greater
OS	Windows 95 or higher	OS 9 or higher
Sound Card	Required	Required
Modem	56k or faster	56k or faster
Internet Service	Required	Required
Browser*	Explorer 5.0 or 5.5	Must be Java ready
	Must be Java ready	Must be Java ready
CD-ROM drive	Must be available	Must be available
3.5 Diskette Drive	Available for file backup	Available for file backup

* Note: Some courses may require students to install additional plug-ins and clients. Plug-ins such as Real Player and QuickTime are necessary to run audio and/or video files supplied on CD or on the web. Adobe Acrobat Reader may be necessary to read certain text files.

All Distance Learning Students must have a basic knowledge of how to run the computer, access files, save papers, run a CD in the CD-ROM drive, and access the Internet and navigate to a specific URL.

All Distance Learning Students must have access to the Internet via an Internet Service Provider (ISP), for example, America On-Line (AOL). All Distance Learning students must supply a valid e-mail address to complete their enrollment in a course and to be placed on our Blackboard Distance Learning server.

Requirements for an INT (Distance Learning) Course:
Before the start of the course: (1) the student is responsible for having access to necessary computer equipment and to the Internet, (2) the student must contact the course instructor to arrange his or her participation in the course and attend orientation sessions, (3) after registration, the student must contact the Director of Distance Learning to obtain necessary user identification to gain access to the course site.

The student is likewise responsible for completing his or her own work in the course, including the following: retrieving and reading all documents and assignments, participating in discussions and chat sessions in a professional manner (see Netiquette Rules), submitting all assignments by the stated deadlines, fulfilling all examination requirements, working cooperatively and respectfully with fellow students, and following all other guidelines and rules imposed by the instructor.