Student Online Support and Resources

Grossmont Adult Edition

• Business and Computer Classes
• Immersive Reader
• Strategies for success
• Tools for Online Success

• Canvas tips for students

The resource links below are places you can find refurbished and inexpensive computers:

• Dell Refurbished Computers
• San Diego Futures Foundation
• Walmart Refurbished Computers

• Campus updates and Resources
• Cuyamaca Cares Emergency Funds
  • Pantry Services
  • Food Autonomy
  • Housing Assistance
• 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

• Chrome extension to read the web
• What is the Immersive Reader 

•  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 

• Kurzweil 3000 Firefly Short Overview
• Kurzweil 3000 Academy (short videos) 
• Kurzweil Firefly Tutorial PDF
• Firefly: Kurzweil's web version 

****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

• Access Help and Learning

Excel

• Excel Help and Learning

Microsoft Teams

• Microsoft Teams Help and Learning

OneDrive

• OneDrive Help and Learning

OneNote

• OneNote Help and Learning

Outlook

•  Outlook Help and Learning

PowerPoint

• PowerPoint Help and Learning

Publisher

• Publisher Help and Learning

SharePoint

• SharePoint Help and Learning 

Word

•  Word Help and Learning

• For Free Assistive Technology and Books
• Note Taking Skills
• Self Advocacy
• Student Success Strategies

Cuyamaca College Tutoring Center and Computer Labs

• Cuyamaca College Tutoring Center Homepage
• Note: for Students with verified disabilities only

  • 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.

NetTutor 

Cuyamaca College is now offering additional online tutoring through NetTutor. If you wish to learn more about NetTutor, please visit the following links:

• Detailed NetTutor Instructions in English, Spanish, and Arabic
• NetTutor Subjects

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.

• U.S. Department of Education

• 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