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.

Chromebook Users

Due to the way a Chromebook is designed to work via ChromeOS and the Google App Store it is not possible for you to use software downloaded via the UCLan home use method. Several of the applications that are available from this page are also on the Citrix Remote Access (RA) platform. This Chromebook guide shows you how to access RA from your device. More details on the Remote Access service can be found here but you must use the separate Chromebook guide to connect. Please note that we are adding software to RA all the time so the list of applications may not be up to date.

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:

  • ACD/Labs Spectrus Processor 2020 – Windows devices only. Please contact your academic in the School of Natural Sciences for access.
  • Adobe Creative Cloud – PC and Mac. Please contact your academic lead for further advice if you have future requirement of this software on your course of study.
    Adobe offer a student discount for those wishing to purchase Adobe CC on their website.
    There are other open source, community built or commercial alternatives that don't cost anything to use. Find out more: Adobe CC Alternatives
  • 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.

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 (updated November 2020).

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