Information School affiliates have access to a variety of software. Information about some specific software titles is below.

Software for Home and Instructional Use

Microsoft Office

Every UW student, staff member, and faculty member has an Office 365 license. This license allows you to download and install Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Teams) on up to five computers (Windows or macOS). More information about Office 365 ProPlus and how to download it are available at the UW-IT UWare site.

Microsoft Development Tools

Microsoft has made software available to students, staff, and faculty through Azure Dev Tools for Teaching. Through this program, you can download free copies of Windows (client and server), Access, Visio, Project, Visual Studio Code, and SQL Server Management Studio, among other titles. To obtain this software, go to the Azure Dev Tools for Teaching site, enter your UW email address, select "Work or school account," and then enter your UW credentials at the UW login page.

Overleaf LaTeX Editor

All iSchool faculty, researchers, students and staff are eligible for an Overleaf Professional account. Access to an Overleaf Professional account can be provided by visiting overleaf.com; select "Log in with SSO" and enter your @uw.edu email to log in.

Qualtrics

Qualtrics is a web-based software that can be used to create surveys and generate reports. All iSchool faculty, researchers, students and staff have access, provisioned under the larger UW license. Login with your UW NetID via this web link: UW Qualtrics.

ATLAS.ti

Information School affiliated faculty and Ph.D. students are eligible for a license for ATLAS.ti, a qualitative data analysis software. To access the iSchool's license for ATLAS.ti please see information on this web link: ATLAS.ti license information.

Software in the iSchool Computer Labs

We have installed an extensive collection of software, from a wide variety of companies, on the computers in the iSchool computer labs. Generally, we stay current with all major releases of software. Most applications are available on every computer in the iSchool.

We do support the Macintosh platform in the iSchool and are now offering both macOS and Windows on all of the Apple computers in our labs. Students may also provision a checkout computer and install an alternative operating system such as Linux.

UW Software

UW-IT maintains a list of software generally available to University of Washington affiliated persons at this web page: Software for the UW (UWare Catalog)