Software and tools for studies and distance teaching

With Zoom, you can study with your classmates over video, for example when you have group work. Zoom will also be used for distance lectures so it is good if you are familiar with the tool.

Learn more about Zoom >>

Canvas is a learning platform consisting of course rooms. Canvas has four features:

• Distributes materials, instructions, links and learning goals.
• Submission of work safely.
• Communication with your teacher and other students in the course.
• Tools for evaluations and examns.

Learn more about Canvas >>

As a student at SLU, you have access to a range of services within Microsoft 365. These services are in the cloud and make it easy to share information, documents and images both internally and externally. Therefore, it is very important to remember that personal data and sensitive personal data should not be stored in Microsoft 365.

Personal data includes for example, name, e-mail address, telephone number, photos, employment number, information about health, ethnic origin, trade union affiliation or political opinion.

Some simple tips:

• Share links, not files: Send a link to the document rather than attaching the file. Then you are in control and can withdraw access.
• Check permissions: Before uploading a file to a Team - double check who is on that Team. All members get access to the file.
• External collaboration: Be extra careful when inviting guests from outside the organization. Just share exactly what they need to see.
• Microsoft 365/Office Desktop Apps

You also get 1 Tb of storage in OneDrive. Please note that your account on Office 365 is linked to your student account and will be deactivated after you no longer have active courses at SLU. During the first 30 days, OneDrive is automatically reactivated if the account is reactivated. After that, there are 90 days in which our M365 admins can review the files. When these 120 days have passed (Approximately 4 months), the files are deleted completely.

 Office packages include, among others:

• Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint

Office can be used on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS.

Office for iPad can be installed on iPad tablets with version 7.0 or higher.

Click here to download the program >>
Log in with your student ID.

The Adobe suite is available on the campus computers (computer lab and library). To get started <<read more here>>.

If you are attending a design course you may be eligable to access Adobe from home. Please check with your teacher if this is the case. To install the Adobe suite on your own computer, please <<read more here>>.

We would also like to recommend the Affinity suite of software for graphics editiing, available for installation at the Program share or via My Desktop.

With SLU:s << virtual study room >> you can access applications and personal documents from your own computer, tablet or smartphone.

As student at SLU you are eligible to install Autodesks softwares (e.g. AutoCAD, Revit etc). Visit the link below and click on Get started on the software you want to download.

https://www.autodesk.com/education/edu-software/overview

Create an account with your student email address. You will get an email to verify the account, then you can sign in to download the software. Before the download starts you will get prompted to sign in with your student ID and password to verify license eligibility.

Note! We have noticed that some students, in addition to signing in with SLU credentials, also have to upload additional proof of admission. We are currently investigating what is causing this. In the meantime if you are prompted for additional proof, follow these steps to sign in to Ladok and create a Certificate of Registration that you can upload to Autodesk:

As a student, you can download a full version of MATLAB with most Toolboxes to your personal computer. Supported operating systems are Linux, Mac OS X, Unix and Windows.

More information about installation. 

For Arcgis there is a page with more information.

Since everyone does not have the opportunity to come to campus to get help with installing software on their private computers we have created a software share where you can download the software needed for your studies, you reach the share with your SLU e-mailadress and SLU password.

We only provide software that we have campus license for which are allowed to be installed in private computers. Software purchased by individual institutions are not listed on this program share.

<< Click here to reach the software share >>

 There are also some applications specially designed for people with a disability. But some of them work very well for all users.

<< You can find information about them here >>