A significant amount of course work in these programs is completed with a personal computer. Please read this form to understand the minimum technical requirements to be successful in your graduate studies. All students are responsible for providing a computer which meets the specifications below, prior to enrollment.

Help Desk: While you provide your own computer hardware and software, the DMU Help Desk can assist you with issues relating to your use of DMU Web sites and services such as email, the portal for student communication, and the course management systems. They can also assist you with using the DMU network on campus and accessing printers available for student use. The Help Desk cannot help with hardware failures on your equipment or installing your software on your computer.

Backups: As a student, it is your responsibility to both back up your own data and work and to identify an alternative computer to use should your primary computer or internet connection fail.

Minimum requirements: Hardware and software compatibility changes frequently, students should be aware these are minimum requirements at the time of publication (September 2009). Some software may have higher technical requirements than specified here.

For both systems

• Flash Player 10
• Windows Media Player
• Quicktime Player
• Sun Java Runtime environment 1.4 or greater must be installed and enabled.
• Javascript must be enabled
• Personal printer

Technology requirement form