Glenville State College Office of Technology is located on the second Floor of Louis Bennett Hall and houses the offices of the Associate Vice President of Technology and personnel.

Directions to Office of Technology

The Glenville State Office of Technology is committed to providing students, faculty and staff with the best possible current and evolving twenty-first century technologies and technology support. It is our goal to remain on the cutting edge, enabling our students to utilize these technology resources effectively and efficiently to prepare them today for tomorrow’s workforce.

Glenville State has several high end servers maintaining the network LAN, wireless and communication services and email throughout the campus.

For student use, there are over 200 computers in labs throughout the campus. Each computer is running Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Microsoft Office, with the majority having at least 1 GB memory and a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 processor. In addition, Glenville State offers high-speed Internet connections, laser printers, smartboards, data projectors and plasma screens to round out the educational experience. Our campus is equipped with wireless Internet connections, a brand new 94 seat auditorium with 3000-watt surround sound, multi-function conference rooms with plasma display, and a state of the art cyber cafe with a big screen TV.

Studnet labs are located throughout the main campus and are located in:

Third Floor of Administration Building (60 PCs)
Main floor of Robert F. Kidd Library (50 PCs)
Acedemic Support, Bottom of Robert F. Kidd Library (25)
Music Lab (10 PCs)
Science Lab (40 PCs)
Land Resources (21 PCs)

Equipment available in labs:

• Dell Pentium IV systems
• 256 MB RAM (Min.)
• SuperVGA monitors and cards
• Laser printers
• Internet connections
• Windows XP operating system

Software available in lab:

• Microsoft Office XP
• Internet Explorer Web Browser
• Visual Studio 2005
• Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 or Sonic
• Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition
• Windows Media Player
• Windows Movie Maker
  
• WinZip
  
• Winamp
  
• Adobe Reader
  
• Java Web Start
  
• Quicktime
  

Glenville State College provides free Educational Network (EdNet) connections for students. To connect, students will need a network card, sometimes referred to as a NIC-10/100 Ethernet card, and a CAT5 patch cable (this is a special cable to connect the computer to the wall access plate) or a wireless network card (for wireless connection). If students are using a modem card, it will not connect to GSC's EdNet.

The minimum requirements for room connections are an Intel Pentium 2 266 MHz processor (or equivalent), such as AMD Athlon 1800+, with at least 40 GB of HD storage and 256 MB of Memory, Windows 2000 and a 10/100 NIC or wireless card. While PCs (Windows) are the dominant type of computer at Glenville State, some people do use Apple Macintoshes. If you are bringing a Macintosh and intend to use it on EdNet, it must, at a minimum, be capable of running Macintosh OS 8.0 and have a supported Ethernet adapter.

FOR SCOTT WING RESIDENTS ONLY: an 802.11g-compatible wireless card is required to connect to the EdNet system. Glenville State provides all residence hall students with Norton's Antivirus software at no cost.

Glenville State is a member of Dell University where students, faculty and staff can receive a discount on new Dell purchases. To take advatage of this discount, visit www.delluniversity.com and click on Get Started. On the Classification drop down menu, click on your classification (Student Currently Attending, Faculty or Staff Member, Prospective Student). On the Search for Your School drop down menu, click on WV and a new menu will pop up called Select Your School. Scroll down and select Glenville State College. Next enter your Glenville State email and click on Submit. A coupon will be sent to your email that can be used as a discount on a new Dell system. Please follow the instructions on your email to apply your discount.

For new purchases, the Office of Technology recommends at least 1 gb or more of memory (2 gb or more is better), 80 gb or more hard drive space, cd/dvd burner, wireless network card and LAN (ethernet) card, a virus scanning software (such as Norton's Antivirus - which is offered by the Office of Technology to all students or download AVG for free at http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/us/frt/0?prd=aff ), surge protector and Microsoft Office 2007.

***Note: Glenville State does not choose these products. They are part of a national discount system that GSC is a member of in order to help benefit students, facutly, and staff. GSC is not responsible for the systems offered by Dell and purchases are made at the buyers risk. If you have any problems with your new Dell system, please contact Dell directly.