NOTE:  St. Vincent College has switched online course management systems.  The new course management is system called Angel Learning.  Click Here to review a student reference guide to become familiar with Angel Learning.  (PDF file)

Self Assessment
If you are interested in taking an Online or Hybrid course at St. Vincent's College, the first step is to make sure you are ready for distance learning. Please take the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium Self Assessment to help you determine if you will be a good online learner.

Basic Online Skills
Click Here to access a website created by the CTLDC.  This website contain tutorials that will help you learn the basic computer skills needed for Distance Learning classes. 

Technical Requirements
Now that you are ready for distance learning, you need to make sure the computer you will be using to access the Angel Learning courses is ready too. It is recommended you have a computer with a sound card and speakers because some courses will integrate video and sound as part of the course.

Angel Learning is designed to support the widest variety of client-side operating systems and client-side browsers through its limited use of client-side technologies. While Angel Learning products function with many browsers, the following are supported and tested:

• PC’s running MS Windows OS: Internet Explorer, Firefox and Mozilla
  
• Macintosh computers running Mac OS X: Firefox and Mozilla

The following list of additional requirements includes browser plug-ins, support for various technologies, and browser features which must be enabled or disabled to take advantage of all the features of the Angel Learning Management System and LIVE:

• Sun Java Runtime Environment 1.4 or greater must be installed and enabled.
  Available from: http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp
  
• Pop-Up blocking software must be disabled or configured to allow pop-up windows from your ANGEL URL.
  
• Javascript must be enabled.
  
• AJAX (XMLHttpRequest) must be supported and enabled.
  
• Presenters (LIVE – Desktop Sharing Presenter Mode) must use a Windows Operating System.

Specific Broswers Supported:

• IE 6.0.x - 7.0.x
  
• Netscape 7.2.x
  
• Firefox 1.0.x - 2.0.x

Specific Operating Systems Supported:

• Windows:  98SE/ME/NT/XP
  
• Mac:  OS 10.x