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Application Software
ITS supports a variety of public domain and site-licensed software to the Mason Community.
Computer Purchasing Standards & Consultation
Information Technology Services (ITS) provides a dynamic, reliable, and secure computing environment for faculty, staff, and students to achieve their goals at Mason.
Software Listing: .Net Framework
.NET Framework 4.5 for Windows, a Mason-licensed software, is used for developing Windows apps.
Software Listing: 7-Zip
7-Zip for Windows, a Mason-licensed software, is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
Software Listing: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, a Mason-licensed software, is a PDF Reader that allows users to view, sign, collaborate on, and annotate documents.
Software Listing: Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe Creative Cloud is a collection of 20+ desktop and mobile apps and services for photography, design, video, web, UX, and more.
Software Listing: ArcGIS
A mapping and analytics platform with data sharing functionality. Geographic Information System (GIS) for working with maps and geographic information. It is used for: creating and using maps; compiling geographic data; analyzing mapped information; sharing and discovering geographic information; using maps and geographic information in a range of applications, and managing geographic information in a database.
Software Listing: Autodesk Education License Products
Autodesk builds software that helps people imagine, design, and make a better world. The Autodesk Education License Products is a library of over 100 applications to help you create.
Software Listing: Camtasia
Camtasia is a software suite, created and published by TechSmith, for creating video tutorials and presentations.
Software Listing: Capture (Kaltura)
Make it easy to create videos and other rich media, without specialized equipment. Kaltura Personal Capture for Education, part of the Kaltura Capture Suite, combines an intuitive interface with a user-centric experience and interactive viewing to enable easy personal video creation on campus, from the office, at home, or on-the-go.
Software Listing: Chrome
Chrome is a web browser.
Software Listing: Cisco Secure Client
Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client empowers remote workers with frictionless, highly secure access to the enterprise network from any device, at any time, in any location while protecting the organization.
Software Listing: Citrix Workspace App
Citrix Workspace app gives users instant access to online published resources. It provides a portal to view published desktops and applications made available by your organization.
Software Listing: Deep Freeze
Deep Freeze makes workstation configurations indestructible. Guarantees 100% workstation recovery upon restart. Provides password protection and complete security. Protects multiple hard drives and partitions. Prevents configuration drift and accidental system misconfiguration. Helps maintain Software compliance across all workstations. Protects workstations from unauthorized changes with a simple restart.
Software Listing: DocuSign
DocuSign is an electronic signature and online form workflow solution. With DocuSign, you can send online documents to people who need to sign them, and then collect and manage those signatures.
Software Listing: FileZilla (FileZilla Project)
FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS, and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.
Software Listing: Firefox
Firefox is a web browser.
Software Listing: GIMP
GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.
Software Listing: Ink2Go
Ink2Go is an extremely simple yet powerful screen annotation and recording software. You can easily write on top of any other application that is currently active on the desktop, even on a running video. You can then save your annotations as an image file or even record the whole session as a video for sharing. It is a useful tool for presenters to communicate and share ideas during a live session, for educators to create effective video tutorials and for salespeople to create impressive video presentations.
Software Listing: Insight (Faronics)
Faronics Insight is an effective classroom management software that helps teachers create a better learning experience while streamlining IT administration and supporting multiple labs with ease.
Software Listing: jGrasp
A lightweight development environment provides automatic generation of software visualizations to improve comprehensibility. Dynamic object viewers and a viewer canvas that work in conjunction with an integrated debugger and workbench for Java. The viewers include a data structure identifier mechanism that recognizes objects that represent traditional data structures such as stacks, queues, linked lists, binary trees, and hash tables, and then displays them in an intuitive textbook-like presentation view.
Software Listing: JMP Pro
As the pro version of JMP statistical discovery software, JMP Pro goes to the next level by offering all the capabilities of JMP plus advanced features for more sophisticated analysis including predictive modeling and cross-validation techniques. Users can harness the power and speed of the supercomputer on their desk to explore and understand data in an easy-to-use interface.
Software Listing: LabStats Cloud Client
LabStats tracks when, where, and how long students are logged on to hardware resources in computer labs.
Software Listing: Lockdown Browser
LockDown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within a learning management system. Used at over 1500 higher educational institutions, LockDown Browser is the “gold standard” for securing online exams in classrooms or proctored environments.
Software Listing: Mathematica
Wolfram Mathematica is a symbolic mathematical computation programming language used in math, computing, engineering, and other fields.
Software Listing: Matlab
MATLAB, the language of technical computing, is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation. Simulink is a graphical environment for simulation and Model-Based Design of multidomain dynamic and embedded systems. MathWorks produces nearly 100 additional products for specialized tasks such as data analysis and image processing.
Software Listing: Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise
Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) offers a host of applications for seamless collaboration, communication, and productivity.
Software Listing: Microsoft Teams
Microsoft (MS) Teams is an enterprise-wide collaboration suite that lives within Mason’s Office 365 environment. At its core, MS Teams provides chat, audio calling, video calling, screen share, and more with individuals and groups outside of a team structure.
Software Listing: Notepad++
A source code editor that supports several languages.
Software Listing: Poll Everywhere
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Software Listing: PuTTY
An implementation of SSH and Telnet for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an “xterm” terminal emulator.
Software Listing: Python
Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively.
Software Listing: Qualtrics
Qualtrics is a simple to use web-based survey tool to conduct survey research, evaluations and other data collection activities. Anyone (with no experience) can use this research suite to build surveys, send surveys and analyze responses.
Software Listing: R
Software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
Software Listing: R Studio
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management.
Software Listing: Respondus 4.0
Respondus is used to create quizzes, surveys, and self-tests external to Blackboard. You can create documents to convert to text files and upload them directly to your Blackboard folder.
Software Listing: SAS
Statistical software for data scientists, business analysts, statisticians, and forecasters to explore, analyze and visualize data.
Software Listing: Snagit
Snagit lets you quickly capture your screen, add additional context, and easily share with coworkers.
Software Listing: SPSS
Statistical software.
Software Listing: STATA (StataCorp)
Statistical software.
Software Listing: Stellarium
Desktop planetarium application which renders the skies in real-time using OpenGL, which means the skies will look exactly like what you see with your eyes, binoculars, or a small telescope.
Software Listing: Visual Studio Code
A code editor that offers IntelliSense, built-in Git, debugging capability, and numerous extensions to add functionality.
Software Listing: VLC Player
Cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files, and various streaming protocols.
Software Listing: Zoom Meeting
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars.
Software Listing: Zotero
Reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials. It allows to collect, organize, cite, and share research.