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Valuable Resources
Tutoring
Library Etiquette
Odds & Ends
100
Questions regarding issues like Financial Aid and Course Registration are properly addressed by
Who are Financial Aid and Student Services Advisors? (Not the LARC)
100
Found on the LARC website, this is the recommended place to start any homework or research assignment.
What is Research Quickstart?
100
These people are eligible to be tutors.
Who is ANYONE.
100
Large group conversations and cell phone calls should occur at THIS location.
What is outside the LARC?
100
This person is currently serving as the President of Minnesota West.
Who is Dr. Terry Gaalswyk
200
When trying to access digital resources from the LARC website like databases or eBooks, you'll need to enter the following to gain access.
What is Star ID and Star ID password?
200
The database accessible through the LARC website that provides access to over 22,000 titles and nearly 250,000 video segments.
What is Films On Demand?
200
Students can expect to budget the following $ amount towards tutoring services at Minnesota West.
What is NO COST - FREE?
200
These should not be consumed at LARC computers.
What are food and drink?
200
Besides the LARC website, information about resources and services can be found here.
What is LARC Digital Signage and/or LARC Desk (personnel)?
300
Minnesota West's official job posting and resume building service is named this.
What is College Central?
300
The LARC allows you online access to more than 150,000 of these.
What are eBooks?
300
A typical tutoring session lasts approximately this amount of time.
What is 1 hour?
300
For LARC purposes, music is best when played at this decibel level.
What is via headphones/earbuds only?
300
The pictures hanging above the study rooms show this.
What is 8 former presidents of Minnesota West?
400
Reserving a study room is done at this location.
What is the LARC Desk?
400
A student ID card is needed to check out "physical" items like this.
What is a print book (or CD, DVD).
400
A software used by Minnesota West to allow "live" distance tutoring sessions.
What is Adobe Connect?
400
The amount of time students should expect staff to stay after closing hours to accommodate individual needs/requests.
What is Zero (None)?
400
The process by which test taking is monitored in a controlled environment.
What is test proctoring?
500
Hundreds of answers to commonly asked questions can be found quickly and easily using this online tool.
What is AskJay?
500
This general, all-purpose database is the most widely used resource at Minnesota West.
What is Academic Search Premier?
500
Minnesota West's online tutoring service, available 24/7, and is found in D2L.
What is SmarThinking?
500
The number of students that call Worthington campus home for Fall 2015.
What is 700?
500
Minnesota West traces its origins to Worthington Junior College in this year.
When was 1936?