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Discounted Software for Educational Use

Kevin O'Neil , Director of Global Support, Information Technology,
Hasan Sayani, Program Director of Software Engineering, GSMT, and
Linda Lassiter, Adjunct Professor, Software Engineering Program, GSMT

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One of the frequently asked questions by faculty and staff has to do with obtaining discounted software through UMUC. Based on this popular demand, we attempted to gather information on what is currently available to our faculty, students and staff in collaboration with the Information Technology department and Software Engineering Program at GSMT. Below is a summary of software available for both UMUC-owned and employee-owned equipment.

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Software Available for Campus-Wide Installation on UMUC-Owned Equipment

Under the Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium Agreement (MEEC), which includes University System of Maryland and K-16 education partners in Maryland, UMUC can install the following Microsoft software on all university-owned equipment:

  • Office Suite (Office Pro Windows or Mac)
  • FrontPage
  • Visual Studio.Net Pro
  • OS Upgrade (Windows XP Pro)
  • Core Client Access Licenses (Exchange, SharePoint Portal, Systems Management, Windows)
  • Project Professional

Under the MEEC Agreement UMUC can install the following McAfee software on all university-owned equipment:

  • McAfee VirusScan

All other software packages are purchased ad-hoc, wherein each time a software package is installed, UMUC pays for the license before installation. This includes former Macromedia and Adobe software packages such as Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Contribute, Photoshop, as well as others.

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Software Available for Non UMUC-Owned Equipment

A number of vendors have ended extending software licenses to employees for their home computers under the MEEC agreement. However, this software can be obtained at discounted prices through multiple channels. Below is a summary listing:

 

Vendor Software Package

Price

Student

Purchase From: Bell Industries (a Microsoft Education Large Account Reseller) Web Site. An agreement been concluded with e-academy, a subsidiary of Bell Industries. Only Microsoft program products are covered, and the software is offered at below-street price, but certainly not free. Students and faculty will find a link at MyUMUC or on the UMUC Intranet.

MS Work at Home Office 2003 Professional

23.60 + s/h

MS Work At Home Windows XP Professional Upgrade

22.40 + s/h

MS Work At Home Visual Studio .NET 2003 Pro

27.60 + s/h

MS Student Select Project Professional 2003

89.45 + s/h

MS Work At Home FrontPage 2003

21.45 + s/h

MS Student Select OneNote 2003

27.90 + s/h

Graduate Faculty or Current Graduate Student – for use at University or Home

Acquire (shipping & handling costs apply) via: Linda Lassiter; Program Administrator for the Graduate School of Management and Technology

Under the Microsoft MSDN Academic Alliance

Only via Instructor (not directly by student) who would email to oclassiter@aol.com to allow students to directly obtain the software and have it shipped to them.

Microsoft Project Professional

$9.99

Visio Professional

$9.99

Visual Studio .NET  Professional

$16.99

Windows XP Professional (NOT upgrade; if installed on top of Windows 2000, all applications have to be reinstalled)

$11.99

Software from other vendors also via Linda Lassiter

Telelogic

IBM

DOORS.NET

Rational, WebSphere, etc.

(Adobe/Macromedia – currently there are no licening arrangements)

Faculty, Staff, Graduate Assistants
(Via the MEEC agreement: Constraints - only 2 installations from each CD);
only on UMUC provided equipment

Purchase (in person) From UMCP Office of Informaiton Technology (OIT) Help Desk at:

CSS Building Room 1400
Monday through Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm 

Call in advance (301) 405-2986

Cash or Check, no Credit Cards are accepted by UMCP help desk

Please visit UMCP's OIT website for more details at http://www.oit.umd.edu/slic/howto/wah.html

Office Professional 2003

$20 (2 CDs)

Office XP  Professional

$30 (3 CDs)

Office 2004 Standard for Macintosh

$10 (1 CD)

Office 2004 Professional for Macintosh

$20 (2 CDs)

Virtual PC 7 for Macintosh

$10 (1 CD)

Windows XP Professional with SP2

$10 (1 CD)

Visual Studio 2005 Professional

$50 (5 CDs)

Please note that if you are a GSMT faculty member, you can contact Linda Lassiter for yourself or on behalf of your students. Students, interested in the purchasing of software, should contact you, their instructor, first. The request must come from the instructor. Please do not have your students contact Professor Lassiter directly as their request will not be honored.

These programs are a wonderful benefit for our students and faculty as they can receive the software at discounted prices. We hope that SUS faculty will soon have their contact as well, which will be listed on DE Oracle as soon as it is available.

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Our thanks to Kevin O'Neil (IT), Hasan Sayani (GSMT) and Linda Lassiter (GSMT) for contributing and verifying information for this timely and relevant article to the DE Oracle @ UMUC.

If you have questions/comments regarding this article, or you have classroom management advice and experiences you would like to share, or would like to recommend someone to contribute an article, please contact your Instructional Support Specialist. Thanks very much!

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