• Frequently Used Plugins-Various plug-ins which can be useful. You may need to download plugin to enable your browser to use various file formats you may encounter on a webpage.

• Shareware Utilities (Mac and PC)-Various shareware utilities which can be useful. If you find these Shareware/Utilities useful, please support their developers as suggested when you install the programs.

• Useful Tools for Instructors-Various websites which can be useful. If you find these Websites useful, please support their developers as suggested by their licensing agreements.

• Web Browsers

  • Internet Exlorer (4.01 or higher — Note: This is the preferred browser) 

  • Netscape (4.0 or higher)

• Video and Audio

  • QuickTime (.mov)

  • Real Player (.rm)

  • Windows Media Player (.wmp, .asf)

• Macromedia Web Players

  • Shockware Player

  • Macromedia Flash Player

  • Authorware Player

• PDF Documents

  • Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

• Microsoft Office Documents

  • Word Viewer(.doc)

  • Excel Viewer (.xls)

  • PowerPoint Viewer (.ppt)

• Compressed Files

  • WinZip (.zip)

  • StuffIt Expander (.sit, .sea, .hqx, .mime, .pf, .zip, .gz, .tgz, .bzip, .bx, .bz2, .tbz, .arj, .uu, .uue, .enc, .arc, .lha, .lzh, .rar)

• Drawing Files

  • AutoCAD (.dwg, .dxf)

Shareware Utilities

• Macintosh
  • Snapz Pro X 2.0.0
  • Fetch
  • GraphicsConverter (Note: will not open on campus- .de domain blocked)
  • MacScan
     
• PC
  • ScreenHunter
  • WS_FTP
  • Ad-aware
  • Spybot
  • WinZip

• Calendars Net -Calendars Net is a free interactive web calendar hosting service, where you and anyone you choose can post events visible and printable by whomever you choose, or everyone. You can post events that span more than one day (with text flowing across days or even weeks) or that recur every 1st and 4th Tuesday of each month, etc. You can copy the calendar data to your own computer and edit your calendar offline.
• Hot Potatoes -The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licenses.
• Cooltext.com -Cooltext.com is an online graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you might need an impressive logo without a lot of work.  We provides real-time generation of graphics customized exactly the way you want them. Simply choose what kind of image you would like to create.  Then, fill out a form and you'll have your own images created on the fly.
• Quia -Quia is pronounced key-uh and is short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. Quia provides a variety of educational services such as tools for creating online quizzes.
• MERLOT -MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.
• Microsoft Templates -Template Gallery gets you started with templates and sample documents. Instead of starting from scratch, download a template from Template Gallery. From calendars to business cards, marketing material, and legal documents, Template Gallery offers hundreds of professionally authored and formatted documents for Microsoft Office.