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The Academic Alliance Program
Information for Students
Updated:
01/29/2008
The
Media, Art, and Information Technologies Department pays an
annual fee for membership in the Academic Alliance Software
Center program. The Academic Alliance Software Center
program is sponsored by Microsoft through its Microsoft
Developer’s Network (MSDN).
One of the nice features of the
Academic Alliance Software Center program is the ability of
students who are enrolled in Media, Art, and Information
Technologies Department courses to obtain software for their home
computers at little or no cost. Under the Academic Alliance
Software Center program, students are permitted to continue using
the software after the class ends. The software which the Media,
Art, and Information Technologies Department has chosen to make
available to its students includes the following:
·
Windows XP Pro
·
Windows
Vista Business Edition
·
Visio Pro 2003
·
Access 2003
·
Access 2007
·
MSDN Library
·
Project Pro 2003
·
Visual Studio
2005
·
SQL Server 2005
Developer Edition
·
SQL Server 2005
Express Edition
·
Windows Server
2003
·
Virtual PC 2004
The procedure for obtaining this
software is described below.
Students currently enrolled in an MAIT Department course will be
registered by their instructor after the first week of the
semester ends (the end of the drop and add period). It is
important that you check your e-mail address in your Angel class
web site to insure it is correct. Your instructor will send a
list of the Angel e-mail addresses of students enrolled in their
section to the Academic Alliance Program Administrator. The AAP
administrator will enroll the students by entering their Angel
e-mail addresses into the Academic Alliance Software Center
Management System. An e-mail containing
your username (which is your complete Angel e-mail address) and
password will be sent to your Angel e-mail address. You use
this information to log into the Academic Alliance Software Center
web site to request software.
Several students each
semester report that they never receive this e-mail once they are
registered. This may be due to e-mail filters which identify the
e-mail as spam mail. If you do not receive, delete, or filter as
spam the e-mail from e-academy.com containing your username and
password information, follow the steps below to generate a second
e-mail containing your password.
1) Type this URL into
your web browser and press enter:
http://msdn05.e-academy.com/lansingcc_it/
2) Click the LOG IN
link on the left-hand side of the web page.
3) Click the "here"
link located in the Login Help box on the right hand side of the
web page.
4) In the Username box,
enter your complete Angel e-mail address.
5) Click the "Go Find
It" button.
Once you have received
your username and password you can log in and select the software
you wish to install on your computer from the Academic Alliance
Software Center Management
System web site. This web site has been created by the MSDNAA for
LCC. The URL for this web site is:
http://msdn05.e-academy.com/lansingcc_it/. You must log into
this web site to “purchase” selected software. The login username
is your complete Angel e-mail address. Use the password contained
in the e-mail you received from e-academy.
The following delivery options are
generally available, although not necessarily for all software.
1) Check out the installation CD(s)
from LCC’s main campus library.
CD check outs WILL NOT be automatically reserved by the
Academic Alliance program, although the web site will state so.
The library has copies of selected software titles available to
students for a 48 hour loan.
2) Download the software from the
ELMS web site.
Downloads are recommended only for
students with a high speed Internet connection. Students with
laptops can use the LCC libraries high speed Internet connection
for downloads. Students can also use computers in TLC 100 (Main
campus) or WCM 123 (West campus) to download software and burn it
to a CD.
3) Purchase the CD(s) at a nominal
cost from a third party (within U.S. only).
Once you have selected a software
item, method of delivery and proceeded through the Check Out
procedure you will be sent an email with a product key code. This
code can also be found my clicking the My Software button and then
clicking the invoice number for that product. Clicking the
product name will display the product key (or serial number) which
is required for installation of the software. |
