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Blackboard Learn (Featured)
Anthology
Blackboard Learn is the primary learning management system (LMS) at Boston University. It is used in residential and online courses, certificate programs, and clerkships. Students can access course materials at any time from laptops, mobile, or tablet.
Copilot (Featured)
Microsoft
Microsoft Copilot is an AI-powered chatbot designed to improve productivity and enhance the way you interact with your Microsoft 365 data. It is available to all staff, faculty, and students at no additional cost under BU’s enterprise Microsoft license.
Google Workspace for Education includes productivity and collaboration tools like Docs, Sheets and Slides. Google Workspace apps are web-based and do not have local desktop installations. Students are provisioned with Google Drives on account creation. Faculty, staff and affiliates that wish to utilize Google for storage must first enable their account for Google access.
Microsoft 365 (Featured)
Microsoft
Microsoft 365 is a cloud-powered productivity platform, providing access to the latest productivity apps, such as Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneDrive, and more.
TerrierGPT (Featured)
Boston University
TerrierGPT is designed to provide BU students, faculty, and staff with secure and flexible access to leading generative artificial intelligence models (GenAI) models. TerrierGPT grants access to paid versions of several AI models including OpenAI GPT-4.1, Anthropic Claude, and Google Gemini, improving accuracy, though not perfect, while ensuring your inputs are not used to train these models. Be mindful of the data you input into these tools, they are approved for data classified as confidential, but not restricted use.
Zoom (Featured)
Zoom Communications
Zoom Meetings provides a robust platform for online collaboration and meetings, pairing full video and audio conferencing capabilities with content sharing and cloud recording.
25Live
CollegeNET
25Live is a vended scheduling software first adopted at Boston University by the Office of the University Registrar to assist in classroom management. Now, 25Live is utilized by a number of departments across campus to assist in event, space, and resource management. As a web-based scheduling platform, 25Live may be accessed from any device with access to the internet. For best results, it is recommended that you use Mozilla Firefox when interacting with 25Live.
Access
Microsoft
Microsoft Access is a user-friendly, graphical database management system (DBMS) from Microsoft that combines a relational database engine with software development tools to help users store, organize, manage, and analyze large amounts of data.
Acrobat Pro
Adobe
Adobe Acrobat Pro is a comprehensive PDF software and e-signature solution that allows users to edit, create, sign, and manage PDFs, offering advanced features beyond the standard Acrobat version, including OCR, redaction, and PDF comparison.
Adobe Digital Editions is an e-book reader software program from Adobe Systems, built initially using Adobe Flash. It is used for acquiring, managing, and reading e-books, digital newspapers, and other digital publications. Most major publishers use Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) to proof-read their books. Download this free eReader to experience your books in the most optimum format across PC, MAC, tablets or mobile devices. Use it to download and purchase digital content, which can be read both online and offline. Experience a new ease-of-use as the books you purchase appear automatically across all the devices you have ADE on.
AirMedia
Crestron
Wirelessly present in classrooms or conference rooms where Crestron AirMedia is available. Open the AirMedia app, then enter the IP address or hostname displayed on the projector or TV screen to get started.
AnyConnect VPN
Cisco
Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a convenient way to access network-restricted resources on the campus network that would otherwise be unavailable from off campus. In some countries, access to the University’s VPN service may be limited or restricted. To connect to the BU VPN you’ll need to install the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client.
ArcGIS Pro
Esri
ArcGIS is a comprehensive geographic information system (GIS) platform from Esri that enables organizations to create, manage, analyze, and share maps, spatial data, and location-based insights to make informed decisions and improve operations. It encompasses a scalable suite of desktop, web, and mobile applications, as well as cloud-based solutions, that support a wide range of capabilities, from asset management and urban planning to public safety and environmental analysis. Please note this is the centralized offering of ArcGIS that is available to the community at large.
BU Google Mail
Gmail is a free email service developed by Google that lets users send, receive, and organize emails through the web or mobile apps. It offers features like strong spam filtering, large storage, search-powered inbox organization, and seamless integration with other Google services such as Google Drive, Calendar, and Meet.
Citrix Workspace
Citrix
Citrix Workspace combines ease of use with quick, secure access to hosted applications and desktops.
CrashPlan
CrashPlan
University owned desktop and laptop computers including those contain confidential or restricted University data are eligible for backup and restore services provided by IS&T through CrashPlan. Any files you choose to back up will be encrypted and securely stored in a cloud-hosted server environment. You can restore them yourself without having to contact IS&T.
Creative Cloud
Adobe
The Adobe Creative Cloud (ACC) is a suite of software and web-based applications that creative professionals worldwide use. The suite includes over twenty individual applications that allow you to edit video and audio, process digital images, create single and multi-page layouts, render 3D objects, and many more. An ACC license also provides access to cloud storage and asset management between the various applications. Creative Cloud is offered to students and faculty as a University Sponsored license. Other BU associates, including staff and those not involved with teaching & learning will require a subscription paid for by their department.
CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection
CrowdStrike
IS&T offers site licensed software, information, and support for securing your computer and protecting it from viruses, spyware, and other malicious behavior.
Cyberduck
iterate GmbH
A Libre server and cloud storage browser with support for FTP, Amazon S3, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Drive, and more.
DBeaver
Open Source
DBeaver is free and open source universal database tool for developers and database administrators.
DropBox
DropBox
Dropbox is a cloud-based storage solution designed to streamline file management and collaboration. Dropbox allows Boston University faculty, staff, and students to securely store, access, and share files from any device, ensuring seamless synchronization across platforms.
Examplify
ExamSoft
High-stakes exams for licensure, certification, and accreditation require secure testing environments, for both in-person and remote settings. With ExamSoft, instructors create and grade exams faster and easier. Use ExamSoft to collect and organize all your assessment data in one place, analyze exam results, generate valuable reports on student learning that highlight individual strengths and opportunities, and provide students with detailed feedback to improve their future performance.
Excel
Microsoft
Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet application by Microsoft used for organizing, calculating, and analyzing data using rows and columns of cells. It enables users to perform complex financial analysis, create visualizations like graphs and pivot tables, and automate repetitive tasks with formulas and macros.
Fetch
Fetch Softworks
IS&T has a site license for Fetch, a FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program for Mac computers that allows you to transfer files between your Mac and other types of computers. For example, you might use FTP software to transfer files between your desktop or notebook computer and SCC, a website, or the mainframe.
Firefox
Mozilla
Firefox is a free, open-source web browser from Mozilla. It automatically blocks online trackers, protects privacy by default, and syncs bookmarks, passwords, and history across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a free web browser from Google. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, syncs bookmarks, passwords, and history across signed-in devices, and includes Safe Browsing protection and a built-in password manager.
Google Drive
Google Drive is a cloud storage solution connected to your BU Google account. You can store documents as well as share files to other Google users. Google Drive for Desktop allows you to sync your Google Drive contents to your local machine. Students are provisioned with Google Drives on account creation. Faculty, staff and affiliates that wish to utilize Google for storage must first enable their account for Google access.
Google Gemini
Google Gemini is an AI-powered chatbot designed to improve productivity and enhance the way you interact with your Google data. It is available to all staff, faculty, and students at no additional cost under BU’s Google Workspace license.
Gradescope
Turnitin, LLC
Gradescope is an innovative feedback and assessment platform designed to simplify and accelerate the grading process for exams, homework, coding assignments, and more. By enabling remote assessment delivery, Gradescope helps instructors and graders provide timely, detailed feedback that enhances student learning outcomes. Gradescope centralizes student submissions, grading rubrics, individualized comments, and statistical analytics into one streamlined system. Whether you’re grading handwritten exams, coding projects, or multiple-choice quizzes, Gradescope supports a wide range of assignment types to suit diverse teaching needs.
JMP Student Edition
JMP Statistical Discovery LLC.
JMP (prounced “jump”) is a software program from JMP (a SAS Insitute subsidiary) to perform simple and complex statistical analysis. It dynamically links statistics with graphics to interactively explore, understand and visualize data. JMP also provides a comprehensive set of statistical tools as well as design of experiments and statistical quality control in a single package. It can work with a variety of data formats, such as Microsoft Excel files, SAS datasets, SPSS datasets, text files and ODBC-compliant databases.
LabView
Nation Instruments
Boston University offers faculty and staff on the main campus access to a LabVIEW teaching and research site license. LabVIEW is a graphical development environment. Through virtual instruments one can acquire, analyze, display, and store data as well as troubleshoot code. It is particularly useful to engineers, scientists, and technical professionals.
Lucidchart
Lucid Software
Lucidchart allows users to collaborate and work together in real time to easily create flowcharts, organizational charts, website wireframes, UML designs, mind maps, software prototypes, and many other diagram types.
Maple
Waterloo Maple Inc.
Maple is a mathematical tool that lets you explore and visualize mathematical concepts, develop technical applications, and share information with the Web, Microsoft® Excel, MATLAB® and your programs.
Mathematica 14.3
Wolfram
Wolfram Mathematica is a powerful computational software system used for symbolic and numerical calculations, data visualization, and algorithm development. It integrates a vast range of mathematical functions with a flexible programming language, making it ideal for researchers, engineers, and analysts across disciplines. Known for its notebook interface and built-in knowledge base, Mathematica enables users to perform complex computations, create interactive models, and automate workflows with ease.
MATLAB
MathWorks
MATLAB combines a desktop environment tuned for iterative analysis and design processes with a programming language that expresses matrix and array mathematics directly. It includes the Live Editor for creating scripts that combine code, output, and formatted text in an executable notebook.
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft
Microsoft Edge is a free, Chromium-based web browser from Microsoft. Available on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, it includes Microsoft Defender SmartScreen protection and syncs history, bookmarks, and passwords across devices via a Microsoft account.
Microsoft To Do
Microsoft
Stay organized and manage your day-to-day with Microsoft To Do. Make shopping lists or task lists, take notes, record collections, set reminders and more to improve your productivity and focus on what matters. Microsoft To Do is the task management app that makes it easy to stay organized and manage your life. Accomplish what’s important to you each day with My Day and Suggestions, personalized day planner tools.
MobaXterm
Mobatek
MobaXterm is your ultimate toolbox for remote computing. In a single Windows application, it provides loads of functions that are tailored for programmers, webmasters, IT administrators and pretty much all users who need to handle their remote jobs in a more simple fashion.
NotebookLM
NotebookLM is an AI-powered research assistant designed to help you refine and organize your ideas. Note: Some features may be unavailable for students under the age of 18.
NVivo 15
Lumivero
NVivo is the premier software for qualitative data analysis. Qualitative researchers describe, evaluate and interpret social phenomena. They analyze data from interviews, surveys, field notes, web pages and journal articles and work in sectors from social science and education to healthcare and business. NVivo allows them to organize, analyze and visualize their data, finding the patterns it contains.
OneDrive
Microsoft
Microsoft OneDrive is a cloud file storage platform where you can synchronize files you store in the cloud to multiple personal computers and access them from a wide variety of mobile devices. You can also share files and folders with people both inside and outside Boston University.
OneNote
Microsoft
Microsoft OneNote is a digital note-taking app for capturing and organizing notes, images, links, and audio in searchable notebooks. Notes sync across your devices and the web.
Onshape
ptc
Onshape is a cloud-based computer-aided design (CAD) software system that operates on a software as a service (SaaS) model. It integrates all the tools necessary for product development, allowing users to design, collaborate, and manage their projects entirely through a web browser. This platform leverages cloud computing for processing and rendering, making it accessible from various devices without the need for local installations.
Outlook
Microsoft
Microsoft Outlook is an email and personal information management app that helps you manage email, calendars, contacts, and tasks in one place. It’s commonly used for work and personal productivity, especially in Microsoft 365 environments, to organize communication, schedule meetings, and stay on top of daily tasks.
PaperCut
PaperCut Software Pty Ltd
PaperCut is print management software used by a number of departments to manage printing costs by implementing quotas. IS&T has centrally licensed PaperCut and makes licenses available to departments. Department administrators can download a license from IS&T’s website and download the software directly from PaperCut’s website. Departments can manage their printing costs, reduce waste, and help ensure that resources are efficiently utilized. Individuals can make informed decisions regarding use of their departmental printing allocation.
Power BI
Microsoft
Power BI is a Microsoft business intelligence platform that helps organizations connect to, visualize, and analyze data from multiple sources to create interactive dashboards and reports. It includes desktop authoring tools, cloud-based sharing capabilities, mobile access, and AI-powered analytics features, enabling businesses to gain actionable insights and make data-driven decisions with enterprise-grade security and collaboration tools.
Power BI Desktop
Microsoft
Power BI Desktop is a free, downloadable Windows application from Microsoft that serves as the primary tool for data analysis and business intelligence. It enables users to connect to various data sources, transform and model that data using a visual interface and powerful DAX formulas, and then build interactive reports with customizable visuals.
PowerPoint
Microsoft
Microsoft PowerPoint is a versatile presentation software that enables users to create, edit, and share multimedia-rich slide shows.
PowerShell
Microsoft
An automation and configuration tool that includes a command-line shell optimized for structured data and object models.
Project Jupyter
LF Charities
Jupyter is the language agnostic framework for managing code “notebooks” of cells, mixed code, text, and graphics. The Juypter project was spun out of IPython’s “Notebook” feature and, while supporting a variety of languages, is primarily associated with Python and IPython’s interactive interface. Jupyter is available in many of the most recent python modules on the SCC.
Qualtrics
Qualtrics
The Qualtrics Research Suite is a user-friendly, feature rich, web-based survey tool which allows users to build, distribute, and analyze online surveys, collaborate in real-time, and export data in multiple formats.
R 4.5.1
R Project
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques and is highly extensible. Example analysis that can be done with R include linear and nonlinear modeling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, and clustering.
Read&Write GOLD
Everway
Read&Write GOLD works with popular software applications — including Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer (features available on many browsers via plugins), and more — to facilitate literacy, language learning, research, and good organizational habits. Its powerful tools designed to help with everything from translation to paper editing make it useful for any student.
REDCap
Vanderbilt
REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a secure web-based application for electronic data capture (EDC) and data management. REDCap allows end users to build online databases and surveys, accessible to collaborators and participants, respectively, with real-time data quality checks, queries, and reporting.
Rocket Terminal Emulator
Rocket Software
Rocket Terminal Emulator provides secure, encrypted mainframe 3270 terminal emulation service over the Internet. It also provides a secure FTP service for file transfers to/from the UIS mainframe, or a user-customizable FTP service for file transfers to/from FTP hosts other than UIS.
SAS 9.4
SAS Institute
SAS 9.4 is an on-premises statistical software platform featuring simplified architecture, enhanced security, high performance analytics, and flexible deployment options.
Slack
Slack Technologies
Slack brings team communication and collaboration into one place so you can get more work done, whether you belong to a large enterprise or a small business. Check off your to-do list and move your projects forward by bringing the right people, conversations, tools, and information you need together. Slack is available on any device, so you can find and access your team and your work, whether you’re at your desk or on the go.
Sonia
Lumivero
Sonia is a powerful student placement management software developed by Lumivero. It is designed to support key stages of student placement programs, ensuring seamless data management, workflow automation, and personalized placements. With Sonia, users can centralize placement data, track and monitor students, and deliver tailored placement experiences. Additionally, it integrates with existing student information systems to enhance the overall management of placement programs.
The IBM® SPSS® software platform provides advanced statistical analysis, a comprehensive library of machine learning algorithms, text analysis capabilities, open-source extensibility, integration with big data, and seamless deployment into applications. Its user-friendly interface, flexibility, and scalability make it accessible to individuals of all skill levels enabling users to uncover new opportunities, enhance efficiency, and reduce risk.
SQL Server Management Studio (SMSS)
Microsoft
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is an integrated environment for managing any SQL infrastructure. Use SSMS to access, configure, manage, administer, and develop all components of SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server on Azure VM, and Azure Synapse Analytics. SSMS provides a single comprehensive utility that combines a broad group of graphical tools with many rich script editors to provide access to SQL Server for developers and database administrators of all skill levels.
STATA/SE 19
STATA
Stata delivers everything you need for reproducible data analysis—powerful statistics, visualization, data manipulation, and automated reporting—all in one intuitive platform
Visual Studio Code
Microsoft
Visual Studio Code is an open source code multi-platform code editor offered by Microsoft. VS Code supports almost every major programming language. Several ship in the box, like JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, and HTML, but extensions for others can be found in the VS Code Marketplace.
VLC
VideoLAN
A free and open source multimedia player and streaming media server that plays most multimedia files.
Windows App
Microsoft
Windows App enables secure, seamless access to BU Common, Boston University's unified desktop environment. Whether you're on campus or remote, use your BU credentials to connect to the same applications and resources available in our computer labs through a single, intuitive client. Work from any device with confidence, knowing your connection is secure and your experience is consistent across Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, and BU's cloud infrastructure.
WinSCP
Open Source
WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client, S3 client and SCP client and file manager for Windows. Its main function is file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and basic file manager functionality.
Word
Microsoft
Microsoft Word is a word processing application from Microsoft used to create, edit, and format documents such as letters, reports, and academic papers.
Xcode
Apple
Xcode offers all the tools you need to craft great apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, and Mac. It enables a unified workflow that spans from the earliest stages of app development to testing, debugging, optimization, and app distribution to testers and users. And with the Swift programming language, Xcode makes developing apps easy and fun. Xcode includes a world-class code editor with an on-device machine learning model trained for Swift and Apple SDKs, a built-in preview tool that shows the UI of your app as you modify code, and a powerful debugger with conditional breakpoints. Xcode also includes companion tools to help you rapidly prototype and test your app. Simulator enables rapid prototyping and testing your app in a simulated environment when a real device isn’t available. Instruments helps you profile and analyze your app, improve performance, and investigate system resource usage. And you can use Reality Composer Pro to create 3D content, train custom machine learning models with Create ML, and identify potential accessibility issues with Accessibility Inspector. To test or run applications on an Apple device, all you need is a free Apple ID. To submit your apps to the App Store you must be a member of the Apple Developer Program. Some features may require Internet access and may not be available for all regions or on all Apple devices.