Purchasing Hardware and Software (Home Use and On Campus)

Please note that ITS does not purchase departmental-specific software for use in the instructional computer classrooms or desktop computers. As noted above, requests for departmental-specific software should be directed to the department chair. 

Requests for Software Purchasing for classrooms, labs, or individually assigned university computers or devices should refer to Article 221: Requesting Software Installation in Offices, Computer Labs, and Classrooms

Site-Licensed Software
Some site-licensed software is available for professional use through ECSU negotiated contracts. Some of the software on these contracts may be available to faculty for home use on personally-owned computers. Eastern and the CSU system hold site-licensed software contracts with Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, and others.
 

Obtaining Software for Home Use
Microsoft software titles are available to Faculty, Staff, and Students and can be obtained via Office 365 downloads. Please be sure to do your downloads from your personal device and not your office machine. Adobe Products are available to Faculty and Staff and can be obtained via Creative Cloud downloads. 

All home use entitlement verification will be done through your Eastern email account please use when creating accounts with Microsoft and Adobe to ensure you get the proper discount and product. 

Available Software:

• Office 365 (Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android)
• Windows 10 (Upgrade version)
• Adobe Creative Cloud (Faculty and Staff only)
• SPSS (Faculty and Staff only)
• Maple (Faculty and Staff only)
• EndNote

To get Office 365:

•  See Article 477: Office 365

To get Office SPSS, Maple, Endnote, and other titles:

•  Other home-use software titles are available to Faculty at the CIT Sharepoint site or students at the Help Desk Sharepoint site.

To get Adobe Creative Cloud:

• Follow the same instructions for installing Adobe products on an Eastern owned machine, located in Article 467: Installing Adobe Creative Cloud Applications.