Academic Support Center
Steven W Shore, Director
(907) 564-8281
http:polar.alaskapacific.edu/sshore

December Break Hours! Yes we are open!

Monday through Friday from 12 pm to 6 pm




Computers
The Academic Support Center (ASC) has three computer labs on campus that provide students Internet access,  productivity software, and printers. The ASC located on the 2nd floor of the Atwood Center  is the main computer lab on campus has 16 Windows and 5 Macintosh computers in the outer Open Lab. This location also has a small connected "Teaching Lab" with 12 Windows XP computers. The third located in the Carr Gottstein building Room 228 is also a "Teaching Lab" equipped with 11 Macintosh computers and 2 Windows XP computers. Both Teaching Labs are open labs most of the time, but also are available for reservation by professors for class use. All Windows computers in these  labs have Pentium IV processors and are running the Windows XP Professional operating system. All Macintosh computers in these labs have G4 or better processors and are running the OS X 10.3 or OS X 10.4

All three labs have printers for student use. The main ASC Lab also has color printing available for student assignments. All computers have CD writing capability and most also have DVD writing capability.

Two additional GIS labs located in the Carr Gottstein and Grant Hall buildings (run by the Environmental Science department)are available for student use. Check with Jason Geck at 564-8309 for available times for general lab use of the GIS computer labs.
Software



The chart below lists software available on ASC computers.

Microsoft Word 2003
Microsoft Excel 2003 Microsoft PowerPoint 2003
Microsoft Access (Windows only)
Microsoft Publisher  (Windows only) Adobe PhotoShop Elements
Adobe Acrobat 7 Standard SPSS version 14 (Windows only)
JMP version 6
jAlbum
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Sea Monkey or Mozilla
Camino (Macintosh only)
Gimp
Opera
SlimBrowser (Windows only)
Google Earth
HTML-Kit (Windows only) NVU (web authoring software) Picassa 2 (Windows only)
SmartMorph iTunes Appleworks (Macintosh Only)
ftp software
Adobe InDesign - 6 licenses
Adobe Illustrator 6 licenses
The 6 ASC owned licenses of InDesign and Illustrator are installed on 3 Macintosh Computers and 3 Windows Computers


The ASC has equipment listed below is available for Professors to reserve for student and professor presentations and projects. To schedule equipment use for your class, call 564-8280.

LCD projector (available with a Dell Laptop if needed) digital camcorder with tripod
VHSc camcorder with tripod Kodak 35 mm slide projectors with carousel if requested
Televisions with VCR and DVD Overhead projectors

Campus Technology phone numbers:
IT - 564-8259
ASC - 564-8280
GIS Lab-  564-8309
RANA Instructional Designer- 564-8611