Current Student FAQs

Please contact Student Services and Advising personnel at your regional campus about add/drops and advising for regional business program courses. Do not attempt to send add/drop slips to the course instructor in Columbus.

The Columbus and regional campus standard for submission of assignments and other student work are Microsoft Office including MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, etc. Faculty will not accept work submitted using other software such as WordPerfect, MS Works, etc. All campus computer labs use MS Office. To work using other software at home save work on campus as (File/Save As..) .rtf (rich text format) and visa-versa.

Please refer to Carmen Resource Center below:

Carmen Resource Center

Some faculty require students to purchase publisher-supplied electronic texts online (e-books from McGraw-Hill and Primus). You can choose to download your purchased e-book either to a public (computer lab, library) computer or to your home computer. When you choose a public computer you can only print the e-book one time. Always choose to download your e-book on your home computer.

Many courses in the BSBA and business minor programs use video conferencing for class meetings. In the event that the video connection fails at your regional campus the phone in the classroom will ring. Answer the phone for instructions.

Carmen provides faculty and students with comprehensive test bank and administration systems including grading of objective exams. Course faculty will give you instructions prior to quizzes and tests. For objective tests, you MUST save each item (multiple choice, etc.) as you answer it by clicking the "Save answer" button. You can always change and re-save item answers at any time before you click the "Submit" button at the end of the quiz or test.

Simply let your instructor know that you can’t access your quiz score. Some instructors do not release results until every student has taken the quiz.

Many courses in the business major and minor programs stream faculty lecture using video and audio clips. Determine what kind of internet connection you have (slow modems will not play the clips, go to a campus lab to view the clips) and make sure that this connection will support accessing the media in question. Power cycle (re-start) the system (computer), including the cable modem.

Make sure all necessary cables are connected. Make sure the system (computer) has the correct media player and version installed. Update version if necessary. The most common problems is having an old version of Windows Media Player, or having the new version of RealPlayer. You can update Windows Media Player from microsoft.com. If these steps fail, please post a message to the Technical Support discussion area in Carmen.