Software

Current UCLan students can receive some software free for home use by completing and returning the forms below, the software will then be provided automatically via your UCLan email.

Acquiring your Software

We require you to complete a Licence Agreement form for each copy of software you require. Choose the relevant form for the software title below. Please be aware that since the licensing regulations for each software title may vary, the forms for each are different. It's therefore important that you choose the correct form and read them carefully before signing.

The following software is available to use at home on compatible devices:

All email correspondence generated by these links are personal to you. Please do not forward the emails on to other people.

Software available for a restricted period:

  • Adobe Creative Cloud – PC and Mac. Please see below. We are pleased to announce that following negotiations with Adobe over the weekend they have agreed to extend the student home use offer until August 14th 2020. You can ignore any expiry messages you may have received over the last few days. If you think you will require access to Adobe CC at home after this date contact your academic lead for further advice on your on-going requirement of this software.
  • MestreNova – PC and Mac. Download a free 90-day version of Mnova from their website. Please log into Blackboard and go to the My Home Tab underneath the news feed for the host ID information
  • Minitab – PC only. Students can download the Minitab 19 free 30 day trial:  www.minitab.com/en-us/products/minitab/free-trial.
  • MindView 7 – Download a free 90 day version, expiry 26.06.2020 - please log into Blackboard, go to the My Home Tab underneath the news feed, and the licence key information for your free Mindview 7 is there.

Adobe Creative Cloud

As a result of campus closure, student access to Adobe Creative Cloud in labs and classrooms is not available. Adobe has provided temporary at-home access for impacted students and faculty, so that they can continue their work remotely. Please follow the instructions below to enable access to Creative Cloud Desktop Apps on your personal device.

  1. Visit https://creativecloud.adobe.com and use your school credentials to sign in.

    Adobe sign in screen

  2. If prompted, select Company or School Account and then enter your password. Or provide your credentials in your school’s login screen.

    Adobe account selection

  3. From the Creative Cloud website, browse for and download your desired app. Click Apps on the top of the page to view all apps.

    Adobe download selected software

For more information on how to download or install apps, see Download and Install Creative Cloud apps.

For Higher Education students to continue developing skills, Adobe offers free “Daily Creative Challenges”. These are guided projects where participants receive creative prompts and connect with pros, mentors, and other students for feedback and support. Click on the app name to learn more: Photoshop, XD and Illustrator. Also, for inspiration and over-the-shoulder learning, watch pros share their creative process on Adobe Live daily at Behance (Adobe Live).

For faculty seeking to engage students during campus closures, Adobe has curated resources to help them discover inspiring projects, best practices, and new ideas so they can continue to drive valuable learning in virtual environments. For more information on Adobe’s distance learning resources please click here.

Please visit this HelpX page if you have questions.

If you have any queries regarding the above please email softwaredownloads@uclan.ac.uk

IBM SPSS

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Licence Agreement Forms

SPSS Statistics
SPSS Amos

 

SPSS Statistics

"IBM SPSS Statistics is a comprehensive, easy-to-use set of data and predictive analytics tools for business users, analysts and statistical programmers." - SPSS Statistics Website
Licence valid for 1 full academic year from 1st September - 31st August, not from the date that it is downloaded. A licence is required for each computer that the software is to be installed on and you are not limited to just one licence.

SPSS Amos

"IBM® SPSS® Amos enables you to specify, estimate, assess and present models to show hypothesized relationships among variables." - SPSS Amos Website

Licence valid for 1 full academic year from 1st September - 31st August, not from the date that it is downloaded. A licence is required for each computer that the software is to be installed on and you are not limited to just one licence.

Please note: Amos is enclosed in the SPSS download, however you need a separate code in order to run it.

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Licence Agreement Form

NVivo Form

NVivo

"NVivo is software that supports qualitative and mixed methods research. It lets you collect, organize and analyze content from interviews, focus groups discussions, surveys, audio - and now in NVivo 10 - Social media data, YouTube videos and web pages." - NVivo Website

Licence valid for 1 full academic year from 1st August - 31st July, not from the date that it is downloaded. A licence is required for each computer that the software is to be installed on and you are not limited to just one licence.

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Licence Agreement Form

Maple Form

Maple

"Maple is the result of over 30 years of cutting-edge research and development, Maple combines the world’s most powerful mathematical computation engine with an intuitive, “clickable” user interface." - Maple Website

Licence valid for as long as you remain a student or member of staff at the University. A licence is required for each computer that the software is to be installed on and you are not limited to just one licence.

Survey Tools for Students

Microsoft Forms

Microsoft Forms allows you to create surveys in Office 365 and either share them to authenticated users within your organisation, or with anonymous respondents anywhere. Use the LinkedIn Learning resources to watch training videos on how to create surveys.

Qualtrics

Qualtrics is a sophisticated tool to assist in building surveys. It enables you to create simple or sophisticated surveys with a full range of question types and visual controls to make your survey more interesting and interactive. Rather than using (free) Survey Monkey which limits the number of questions, respondents and doesn’t support exporting your results for analysis, Qualtrics allows you to quickly export your data to Excel (or SPSS).
Students
To obtain a Qualtrics account navigate using the link above and click create a new account. You will have to use your UCLan email address (e.g. @uclan.ac.uk) to be able to create an account.
Further help and instructions for information on setting up.

For more information about this resource please contact Belinda Hornby on 01772 893737 or email BFHornby@uclan.ac.uk

Survey Monkey

Survey Monkey is not supported by the university as a central subscription would not work in our network environment. If the only tool you can use is Survey Monkey you will need to purchase your own personal subscription which will make you responsible for maintaining your own backups of surveys from their servers.

Other Software

While we'd love to be able to provide you with the full range of software that is on the University network for use on your home computers, unfortunately, due to Licensing regulations, that's not possible. It is possible to get some software for student use directly from the supplier such as Autodesk and Adobe and single use copies of applications can be purchased from most online stores that sell computer software.

Microsoft

All current students studying at UCLan are able to use Microsoft Office 365 for FREE via their UCLan account. This service includes:

  • Office 365 ProPlus – Install the latest Microsoft Office software at home on up to 5 devices - including PCs, Macs, tablets (including iPad) and smartphones, absolutely free (for as long as you remain a UCLan student).
  • OneDrive for Business – Every UCLan student now gets a huge 1 Terabyte of personal storage space in the cloud (in addition to the 50GB email space you already have).
  • Office Online – Create and edit Word, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Excel documents from any device’s web browser and save to your OneDrive for Business space.

Contact us

Software Downloads
Email: softwaredownloads@uclan.ac.uk
Phone: 01772 895355