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Students at the Information School have access to a wide variety of software for home, in the Information School labs, and in UW's CRC labs.

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, Skype for Business) 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.

OnTheHub Software

The Information School has an OnTheHub site where you can download various software titles like IBM SPSS, Parallels Desktop, EndNote, Norton Security and Adobe Creative Cloud. Most titles are free and some are discounted.

VMware Software

The Information School has made VMware software available to our students and faculty. Titles include VMware Fusion, which is enterprise-class virtual machine software that allows you to run various operating systems on your Mac.

LaTex Editor

The Information School has partnered with the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering to make the LaTeX Editor (provided by Overleaf) available to our Faculty and Ph.D. Students. LaTex is still the only file format accepted by many publications and journals. If you need access to this software, please contact iSchool IT.

Qualtrics

The Information School has a license for Qualtrics. Qualtrics is a web-based software that can be used to create surveys and generate reports. Access is available to all iSchool students, faculty and staff via this web link: iSchool Qualtrics

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 and on our research workstations. Most applications are market leaders in their particular segment. 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 server and install an alternative operating system such as Linux.

Remote access to iSchool Computer Lab Machines

iSchool students have the ability to access Computer Lab machines that are running Windows remotely. This is useful if you need access to software that is only installed in the iSchool Computer Labs. You can select a machine by browsing to here, and the instructions for how to connect are here.

UW Software

Students have access to UW's CRC computing labs and their software. Software for both macOS and Windows computers is available. View software available in CRC labs.

All UW students, staff, and faculty have accounts on UW servers. The UW servers are part of a Linux cluster managed by UW-IT, UW's central computing-support organization. The UW servers are used for things like web publishing, shell access, and MySQL. The cluster that hosts student resources is called Dante and the cluster that hosts staff and faculty resources is called Homer.

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News

Alexis Hiniker

How do Alexa and Siri affect kids? iSchool's Hiniker investigates

Friday, January 8, 2021
Many families have unwittingly been taking part in a huge social experiment. They’ve invited conversational agents such as Siri and Alexa into their homes, but how do these new technologies affect children’s social development? The...
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Researchers work to bridge digital divide in Tacoma

Tuesday, January 5, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has shown how internet access has become a crucial lifeline for many. It has also highlighted a key facet of Jason Young’s research at the Information School: the gap between those who have broadband internet...
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