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Explore the free technology training options offered to 51³Ô¹Ï students, faculty, and staff.
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Office of Information Technology
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20016-8019
United States
51³Ô¹Ï-Supported Software Applications
The Office of Information Technology supports a wide variety of software applications. Many of the applications listed below have been licensed for use by all 51³Ô¹Ï Faculty, Staff, and Students, or else they are freely available.
Please click any of the links below to learn more about our supported software applications.
- 51³Ô¹Ï Alerts - 51³Ô¹Ï's emergency alert system.
- - 51³Ô¹Ï's Web-based e-learning application used to supplement most classes.
- CommonSpot - 51³Ô¹Ï's content management system for posting university Web content.
- - 51³Ô¹Ï's site-licensed citation and bibliographic software.
- - E-mail lists facilitate communication with others sharing similar interests.
- Microsoft Office - 51³Ô¹Ï students, staff, and faculty are eligible to obtain a free subscription to Microsoft Office 365 through our campus site-licensing agreement. Office 365 may be installed on up to 5 devices.
- - 51³Ô¹Ï's Web portal, your secure, personal gateway to information and services
- Virtual Private Network (VPN) - a tool for securely connecting to 51³Ô¹Ï network resources from anywhere in the world
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) - 51³Ô¹Ï's administrative computing system with modules to manage student academic records, financial information, human resources records, and support the development initiatives at the university.
- Operational Reports - a Web-accessible reporting and analytics business intelligence tool.
- - 51³Ô¹Ï's campus-wide pay-for-printing system, used in computer labs, libraries, and residence halls
- - a suite of applications normally only accessible in computer labs. Stuents do not need to have the applications installed, but are still able to use them.