Remote Working and Learning - How to Get Software While Remote

This document will help you get the software you need to work or learn remotely.

Adobe Creative Cloud

Faculty and Staff are licensed to use Creative Cloud on both UW- and personally-owned devices: Adobe Creative Cloud - Logging in with Your UW-Madison Account

For students, UW-Madison purchased a limited number of Adobe Creative Cloud and Acrobat licenses for use by students enrolled in courses requiring them. For more information, see: Adobe Creative Cloud - Student Subscription FAQ

Cisco Webex Meetings

Available for download by faculty and staff through the Campus Software Library or your local campus IT endpoint management system.

For information, see [Link for document 89041 is unavailable at this time].

Cisco Jabber Client for Phone/Chat/Meetings

Available for download by faculty, staff, and students through the Campus Software Library or your local campus IT endpoint management system.

Installation instructions: Cisco VoIP - Jabber Software Installation for Computers.

For other Cisco Jabber documentation, see the KnowledgeBase.

Matlab

Our campus-wide license gives everyone has access to MATLAB Online, MATLAB Drive, MATLAB Mobile, and MATLAB Grader, all cloud based tools for instruction.

All of these can be accessed via our MathWorks/UW Portal here: https://www.mathworks.com/academia/tah-portal/university-of-wisconsin-madison-678095.html

If faculty are unfamiliar with MATLAB Online, this short Onramp (Teaching with MATLAB) will help them get up to speed on using these resources: https://www.mathworks.com/learn/teaching-with-matlab.html

Mathematica

Wolfram is allowing access to Mathematica Online for the spring and summer semesters. Mathematica Online is their cloud based tool for mobile access and notebook sharing.

  1. Go to http://user.wolfram.com
    1. New users who do NOT already have a WolframID will need to use the link at the bottom of the box which says "Don't have a Wolfram ID?" and click on "Create one."
    2. Users who already have a WolframID may skip to section 2 below.
    3. Fill out form using your @ .edu email only (gmail or other email addresses will not work)
    4. Click "Create Wolfram ID"
    5. Check your email and click the link to validate your WolframID
  2. Fill out the following form to request access to Mathematica Online:
    1. https://user.wolfram.com/portal/requestAK/55c868a87c4e013374ce629326af443cc4c99644
  3. Go to wolframcloud.com and sign in with WolframID and password

There are also many useful resources with courses, tutorials and ways to use Mathematica on the Wolfram website:

Microsoft Microsoft 365

See Microsoft 365 - Download/Install Microsoft 365.

Smart Draw

SmartDraw is an easy-to-use yet powerful diagramming tool for flowcharts, organization charts, mind maps, project charts, and other business visuals. It's like Visio, only better.

Available for download by faculty, staff, and students through the Campus Software Library or your local campus IT endpoint management system.

For the Cloud-based tool: https://cloud.smartdraw.com

Solidworks

Solidworks has released new options for students, hobbyists, faculty, and staff beyond our current campus license.

Download 60-day Trial SOLIDWORKS® software:

  1. http://www.solidworks.com/SDK
  2. SDK-ID: TCOVID19
  3. Choose current SOLIDWORKS® version
  4. During the download process you will receive an email with the 24-character serial number needed to install and activate.

SPSS/Stata

SPSS & Stata are statistical analysis programs that are available for Faculty, Staff, and Students for teaching and research purposes.

Available for download by faculty, staff, and students through the Campus Software Library or your local campus IT endpoint management system.

VanDyke SecureCRT and SecureFX

SecureCRT for Windows, Mac, and Linux provides rock-solid terminal emulation for computing professionals.

SecureFX for Windows, Mac, and Linux is a flexible, secure file transfer application with an easy-to-learn visual interface.

Available for download by faculty, staff, and students through the Campus Software Library or your local campus IT endpoint management system.

WiscVPN (PaloAlto GlobalProtect)

See: WiscVPN - How to Install, Connect, Uninstall, and Disconnect WiscVPN Palo Alto GlobalProtect.

X-Win32 & FastX

All students, faculty and staff at University of Wisconsin-Madison can make use of X-Win32 and FastX in order to connect to servers on campus. Use for personal purposes, such as connecting to a personal Linux machine is also covered. FastX is particularly well suited for people connecting from home to servers on campus. Performance of FastX over WAN connections is close to LAN-like so even high-end graphics applications perform well. The X11 protocol on which X-Win32 is based is usually too heavy for remote use.

The only requirement is that Administrators will need to install the FastX server component onto the Linux machines that host the applications users need to access. Desktop clients are unlicensed and users can also use their Web browser to access applications.

Available for download by faculty, staff, and students through the Campus Software Library or your local campus IT endpoint management system.

Other titles

If you need access to a title not listed here, please contact licensing@doit.wisc.edu.

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