Variety of short videos and documentation on learning Office 365.
Public access to the Purdue University writing center with tons of material on all things “writing”.
Special search engine for scholarly, educational, journals with full text articles.
These are the recommended MINIMUM requirements for using the BigBlueButton live meeting rooms. As always, you can never have too much power or too much bandwidth, especially when working with live audio/video over the internet.
How to self-register for Fall 2017 classes for Fayette campus
New course self-registration info for Online or non-Fayette Campuses SPRING 2015. Click to download. If it does not automatically open or save, <Right-Click> the link and choose "Save link (target) As" then manually open in Adobe Reader.
Apps which *might* work. Not "officially" supported or endorsed. Try at your own risk. Search your devices App Store to see if it's available for your device.
Students and parents may begin, complete, and submit a new or renewal FAFSA form with this 'official' app.
iOS ONLY. A free multi-purpose document management app. Create basic text documents, download and view files from your 'cloud' services. View Word, PowerPoints or PDF's etc.
iOS ONLY. An electronic version of the old standby study method of creating 3 x 5" "recipe cards" with the question on front and answer on back.
Take a photo of a page of text and it will straighten the page and clean up the text for easy reading. Then Upload to OneDrive to save it. Great for taking a picture of class lecture data written on a whiteboard.
This iOS app costs 99 cents but is well worth it. It allows you to set a smaller video resolution and/or lower frame rate in which to record your movies. Most videos shot on an iPhone or iPad do not need to be full Hi-Def BlueRay or DVD quality. They can usually be like the 'standard' definition and size of most YouTube videos which take up WAY less space, and can be uploaded faster and more easily than huge HD videos.
Designed as a "helper" app for HeyCam! hardware, it also works as a Free stand-alone app that allows you to record movies at a smaller size. (Standard YouTube 640x480 size) instead of the huge, default 1080 or 720p BluRay/DVD "HD quality" iPad settings.
The incredible, versatile multi-media player as an App. Will play nearly any kind of internet movie or audio file. Works with AirPlay to project the movie to an AppleTV/AirServer etc.
A universal bar-code, QR code utility that works with most any type of codes. Exports data to cloud storage or CSV file for Excel, etc.
Lets you view and sign PDF files.
Hints and Tips for how to free up space on your iPad if it becomes full. This does not include the obvious like deleting games or other non-essential Apps. These are the 'hidden' settings buried in non-obvious locations... like deleting extra Siri voices that you don't use etc.
Collaborative whiteboard app.
Free, secure password storage “address book” based of the open source KeePass project https://keepass.info/
Save on MS Office and other software with proof of being a student. (see site for details)
These are for Desktop/Laptop computers, not Tablets or SmartPhones
This is the required Adobe FLASH PLAYER browser plugin. There is a DIFFERENT ONE for EACH browser. (I.E, Firefox etc) Go to the download website Using Each Browser and download/run the appropriate installer. It should Auto-Detect the correct one for your browser. DO NOT checkmark/Install the "Optional" product. Usually a McAfee, ASK, or Google Chrome product. They are NOT needed and are there as paid for commercial "spamware".
Audacity is a free, powerful Audio recorder and editor for PC's or Macs. Use the latest "beta" version for newer computers or operating systems. To save files as MP3's you must download and install a separate free extension. Instructions are on the Audacity website. You can open/play MP3's without the add-on, it is only needed if you wish to save or change MP3's.
Free, open-source, multi-platform video editor. Makes a good replacement for Apple iMovie or Windows MovieMaker.
This free cross-platform app will import a variety of eBook formats and let you manage them, read them or convert them to other formats for other devices.
If you have a PC laptop using a CMU "on-campus" wireless network connection and need to print, you must download & install this small program that allows you to see the list of available printers.
MacOS has this built in, you do not need to download this on a Mac. When you "Add a Printer" you select a "Bonjour" printer Kind and use the driver named "Secure AirPrint".After selecting your printer it will prompt for a username and password; use your "Eagle account" credentials. (CMU email name without the '@centralmethodist.edu' part, NOT your myCMU login)
Free, secure password storage “address book” for Mac/PC/Linux
(Free) Some video formats are proprietary and only play on certain computers/software, and others are in uncompressed formats which make them impractically large to download/save to devices with low storage space. Adapter lets you convert these into smaller, more compatible, 'generic' video file types like mp4 or m4v for easier handling.