On Friday 21 November 2003 01:06 pm, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
: On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:06:27PM -0800, Dirk Ouellette wrote:
: > I'm planning to take my Nursing pre-reqs now so when I retire from the
: > Post office in Oct '06, I'll be ready to go. the following is a
: > requirement for my first online Math 60 class.
: > Will open Office fill the bill here?
: > Thanks, Dirk
: >
: > Course Specific Requirements: [image]Microsoft Word with Equation Editor
: > installed.
: >
: > You will be submitting homework assigments as Microsoft Word documents.
: > You need to have the equation editor loaded in Microsoft Word. Check out
: > the following link for instructions on using equation editor
:
: Ask the course instructor if they are going to fund the purchase of MS
: Word. Explain that while the purchase of a $50 or even $100 text book,
: while a little excessive is acceptable, the purchase of $3-500 software
: product just for the sake of a class is absurd and should not be a
: course requirement.
well... student prices are under $200 for office last I checked, however, it
does also require some version of windows, which last I checked was $179, and
ofcourse this not only requires that you have a computer, but it also
requires that your computer meet the minimum system requirements for the
software (this can mean upgrading the hardware aswell as purchasing M$
software).
Probably the computers in the labs have all this software on it, however if
your taking an online class, this wont help much!
Ask about alternatives. Ask now, so that in the
: future when you are ready for the class, changes can have had time to
: take effect.
Thats a good idea. Maybe the instructor could atleast provide examples of what
is required for results, if the same results can be accomplished with other
software, then maybe that would meet the requirement.
:
: Cory
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