IT Resources for Students
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This page is intended to provide information for students relating to discounts that they may be eligible for. Currently it only focuses on IT-type discounts. QUT GK is not affiliated with any third party vendors. Please exercise caution when making online purchases of any type.
QUT Resources
The QUT Bookshop offer retail and student discounted software from major software companies, including:
- Microsoft
- SPSS
- Adobe
- Corel
- Mathworks
- Autodesk
- Symantec
- Nuance
The QUT IT Services gives all QUT students access to a small collection of mostly free and open source software. However notable exceptions include EndNote, Sophos Antivirus and Nvivo.
QUT IT students (must be enrolled in an IT course specifically, not just enrolled in the facuty of science and technology) are eligble to access retail software for free under the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) academic alliance agreement between Microsoft and QUT. You will need a special QUT FIT-MSDA login to access these downloads.
However students part of the greater faculty of science and technology may have access to some software via the faculty software page.
QUT Printing Services offer laptops from Apple and Toshiba at discounted prices. Microsoft Office is also available for purchase at student discount prices.
Third Party Resources
Microsoft, through their partner Digital River, offers the following products at heavily discounted prices to current TAFE and University students at approved/verified institutions. You will need to be studying at an approved TAFE or University and supply Microsoft the email address provided by your educational institution (i.e. an email address that includes a ".edu.au" bit) to obtain access to their online store. A credit card, debit card or pre-paid credit/debit card is required to make purchases.
At the time of writing, the following products are available for purchase:
- Office 2010 Professional Academic, which includes,
- Access 2010
- Excel 2010
- PowerPoint 2010
- Publisher 2010
- Word 2010
- Outlook 2010
- OneNote 2010
- Office for Mac Academic 2011
- Windows 7 Professional Upgrade (32bit or 64bit)
Microsoft's Dreakspark program gives away retail software to high school, TAFE and university students for free. However this type of software is more geared towards IT students as it consists mainly of programming (Visual Studio) or server software (Windows Server), which most people have no use for.
You will need a Windows Live ID (i.e. a hotmail or live account) and be studying at an approved educational institution or obtain an International Student Identification Card (ISIC).
As of writing the following software is available for download.
- Expression Studio 4 Ultimate, which includes,
- Expression Design 4
- Expression Blend 4
- Expression Web 4
- Expression Encoder 4
- Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3
- Small Basic
- SQL Server 2008
- Virtual PC
- Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010
- Windows Embedded CE 6.0
- Windows Multipoint Mouse SDK
- Windows Phone
- Windows Server 2003 and 2008
- XNA Game Studio 3.1
OnTheHub is an online store provided by e-Acadamy that specialises in selling academic versions of software to eligible students. Note that prices are in United States dollars, verification of academic status is required (normally by providing your ".edu.au" email address) and purchases require a credit card, debit card or pre-paid credit/debit card.
Students that are part of QUT's faculty of IT or faculty of Design appear to be eligible for free VMWare Inc. software products but licences only last 12 months.
Their catelouge includes data analysis, statistical, education, virtualisation, communication and design software from the following companies:
- MiniTab Inc.
- SPSS
- SAS Institute Inc.
- TIBCO Software Inc.
- iGrafx
- SigmaFlow
- National Instruments
- Babylon Ltd.
- Inspiration Software Inc.
- Thomson Reuters
- Student Backup
- VMware Inc.
- Columbia University
- Trend Micro Inc.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 01 May 2011 17:26
IT Resources for Students
