Associate Degree Nursing Program Software Requirements

Overview

The Associate Degree Nursing Program will require students to own personal laptops for access to resources and testing. On entry into the program, time will be spent during orientation ensuring that all needed programs and accesses are installed and available. 

Getting Started

The following is a list of programs which will need to be installed and/or run on all computers used in the program. This list is not comprehensive and is subject to change over time.

Computer minimum system requirements

You can find recommendations for minimum system requirements in the IT Hub article Computer System Recommendations.

Required Software

Disable auto-updates

While in the program, it will be important that auto-updates for the operating system on the machines are turned off to ensure functionality with several programs. Most notably Examplify, as these programs sometimes lag behind Microsoft and Mac and problems may occur if updates are run before they have been vetted. Faculty members will advise all students when updates are approved by our software providers, and emergency machines will be available on a limited basis for use as needed during exams.

Disable Window auto-updates

Instructions for disabling windows auto-updates can be found at Schedule or pause updates in Windows 11 - Microsoft Support

Disable MacOS auto-updates

Revision #7
Created 10 January 2025 16:10:55 by Jeremy Lindley
Updated 10 January 2025 17:05:07 by David Kuehne