Student Software Access

To better allow for teaching in times of disruption, the Event and Classroom Management (ECM) Public Computing Team has outlined ways to access the software you have access to on our computers in labs and classrooms. Below is information about remotely accessing the computers on campus and information about software that you can install on your own computer.

Additionally, here is further information on Learning During Times of Distuption.


Remote Access to Lab Computers

ECM offers a small pool of computers to provide remote access to lab software via . 

Find more information about how to access at .


Software for Personally Owned Machines

Some software requires licensing. To access "See Blackboard for..." links, visit and log in with your Active Directory account. The information is available under the Services tab, then the Software sub-tab.

ProductVendor URL or Install SourceInstall Notes
Abaqus/CAEUse General - Public Computing pool of
Adobe Creative CloudUse General - Public Computing pool of Personal licenses are made available to declared DMS majors, and by instructor request for certain courses.
Anaconda 3
AnalySeries
Android Studio
AntconcUse General - Public Computing pool of
Arand
ArcGIS Pro
Arduino IDE
aspenONEUse General - Public Computing pool of Local installation also available,
Audacity
AutoCAD
BEAST/Beauti
Blender
BlueJ
BBEdit
Cambridge Structural DatabaseContact Bill Brennessel for remote access options
Chemdraw
Chemistry Games
Code::Blocks
CodeV/LightToolsAvailable to optics students via
Comic LifeSee for License Key
Creo/ProESee for install media
Cygwin
DirectRTUse MPlus Access Only pool of
DIVA-GIS
Eclipse
emacs
ENVIUse - request access via Greg Heyworth
Epic Games Launcher
Epic Unreal Engine
EstimateS
Flutter
Game Maker Studio
gcc
GhostScript
GIMP
Git
GMT
Google Earth Pro
HandBrake
imageJ
Irfanview
Java Development Kit
Java Runtime Environment
JES
JMP
Jubler
Kornucopia
LabVIEW
MAMP
Mathematica
MATLAB
MediaLabUse MPlus Access Only pool of
MeshLab
Meshmixer
Meshroom
Mesquite
MiKTeX
MinGW
Minitab
Mnova
MplusUse MPlus Access Only pool of
Nastran/Patran
NetBeans IDE
Neuron
NoMachine
Northfield Investment SuiteUse General - Public Computing pool of
Notepad++
NX
Office365
OptiLayerAvailable to optics students via
Optiwave OptispiceAvailable to optics students via
OrCAD
OSLO EDU
puTTY
PyCharm
Repetier-Host
QGIS
R
R Studio Desktop
Racket
RobocodeExtract .jar to c:\robocode
rsoftAvailable to optics students via
SAOImageDS9
SAS
Serial Cloner
SigFitinstructor will provide download password and license server information
slic3r
SolidworksSee for License Key
SPSSUse General - Public Computing pool of
STATAUse General - Public Computing pool of
Sublime TextSet the default "Layout" (under the View menu) to single column
SuperCollider
Tableau
TeXmaker
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Community
VLC
Windows Subsystem for LinuxAdditional component in Windows Features
WinSCP
Xming
Zemax OpticStudioAvailable to optics students via Contact instructor for local install intructions

If you are experiencing an issue with ECM supported software, please call the ECM Help Desk at (585) 275-9014 or submit a ticket directly using the .

For non-ECM supported computers on River Campus, please call the University IT Help Desk at (585) 275-2000 or contact your departmental desktop support staff directly.