Student Online Support and Resources
Academic Resources
The resource links below are places you can find refurbished and inexpensive computers:
- Campus updates and Resources
- Cuyamaca Cares Emergency Funds
- Emergency Services and Information During Campus Closure
- ***Need Help Paying Bills: Find help paying bills, rent, mortgages, debts and more
- Student Resources Guide Life Edition
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law that affords parents the right to have access to their children’s education records, the right to seek to have the records amended, and the right to have some control over the disclosure of personally identifiable information from the education records. When a student turns 18 years old, or enters a post-secondary institution at any age, the rights under FERPA transfer from the parents to the student (“eligible student”). The FERPA statute is found at 20 U.S.C. § 1232g and the FERPA regulations are found at 34 CFR Part 99
- Cuyamaca College FERPA
- Get Kurzweil Free: during the Covid-19 pandemic
- Getting started with Kurzweil on a Mac
- Kurzweil 3000 Academy
- Kurzweil Academy (short videos)
- Kurzweil Help Tutorials: by Kurzweil for the Windows, Macintosh, and iPad
- Kurzweil on YouTube: Demonstrations on many of the tools Kurzweil offers by Tracie Belt
- Kurzweil Read the Web extension for Chrome Browser
****Microsoft Office 365 is free to all Cuyamaca College students enrolled in 1 or more classes. Every student has a college email account which you will need to get the software.
Access
Excel
Microsoft Teams
OneDrive
OneNote
Outlook
PowerPoint
Publisher
SharePoint
Word
Cuyamaca College Tutoring Center and Computer Labs
- Cuyamaca College Tutoring Center Homepage
- Note: for Students with verified disabilities only
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The arrangement we have worked out over time, and which the data consistently bears out as effective for DSPS students, is that students can have two appointments in a day – for disciplines where this is possible. BUT they do this by completing one 30-minute session, asking to make another appointment starting 1 hour later or more, and then applying the information and strategies that they learned in the first session before they attend the second. Then, they have a pretty good idea of what they understood and what they would like to work on again or next. This improves retention of information and models breaking tasks into doable parts.
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NetTutor
Cuyamaca College is now offering additional online tutoring through NetTutor. If you wish to learn more about NetTutor, please visit the following links:
Please contact Veronica Nieves-Cortez at Veronica.Nieves@gcccd.edu with any NetTutor questions.
STEM
Cuyamaca College STEM Center: *STEM disciplines include Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Physics, Earth Science, Computer Science, Math, Astronomy and related disciplines
More Academic Support and Resources
- Amazing Educational Resources: A community of educators sharing resources and support, Search our 1731 resources
- American Psychological Association APA Style 7th edition
- APA Style and Essentials (PDF)
- Discovery Education: Connect students to real-world problems worth solving
- Khan Academy
- Memory Cue Sheet (PDF)
- NASA STEM Engagement
- Northeastern University Center for STEM Education: resources that parents, students, and teachers
- Purdue "OWL" Online APA General Format 7th edition
- Purdue "OWL" Online MLA General Format
- Purdue "OWL" General Writing Resources
- STEM Rising is your go-to resource for all-things-STEM at the U.S. Department of Energy. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, commonly known as STEM, are the essential building blocks to accomplishing the U.S. Department of Energy's mission from coast to coast.
- How to Use Zoom Video: Conferencing Tutorial for Beginners (under 15 minutes)
- Learn Zoom in under 5 Minutes: a video demonstration (under 5 minutes)
- Zoom Tutorials for Students: on YouTube
- Zoom Video Tutorials: Tutorials created by Zoom
For questions or requests to speak with a DSPS staff member, you may email our:
- Main office at cuyamaca.dsps@gcccd.edu Phone:(619) 660-4239.
- High Tech Center office staff at cuyamaca.dsps.htc@gcccd.edu or leave a voice mail message for our staff at Phone: (619) 660-4299.
- Test Proctor at cuyamaca.dspstesting@gcccd.edu Phone: (619) 660-4577
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing can reach Lois Aaron (DSPS ASL Scheduler) at Lois_Aaron@gcccd.edu
- You can also email our staff members directly
For answers to questions related to other Student Service programs, please visit the: Cuyamaca College Student Support Services Page