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  • Using the Lab
  • Hardware in the Lab
  • Software
  • Multimedia in the Lab

• Acquiring software for personal use:
  • Shareware through UNC
  • Microsoft products through SILS
• Software available on SILS lab computers

Software for Personal Use

Shareware available through UNC

UNC shareware offers a number of software packages for free to anyone who has an Onyen. Software includes:

• Antivirus: Symantec for Windows, Norton for Mac
• E-mail: Mulberry, Thunderbird, Oracle connectors
• File transfer: SSH/SFTP for Windows, Fetch for Mac
• File archives: WinZip for Windows, StuffIt for Mac
• Printing: clients that connect you to campus printing
• VPN: Cisco VPN client
• ...and other utilities.

Microsoft Products available through SILS

SILS has teamed up with Microsoft to provide Microsoft software to SILS students at no cost. To be eligible, you must be enrolled in at least one class at SILS. The ELMS site offers the following software for students (note that Microsoft Office is not included):

• Access 2003/2007
• Visio Professional 2003/2007
• OneNote 2003/2007
• Windows XP Professional
• Windows Vista Business
• ...and other MS packages.

How to access ELMS

The ELMS site uses a simple shopping-cart checkout system, and you need a valid UNC email address to access the site. Below are some instructions on how to access, download, and install your software through ELMS.

• Visit SILS' ELMS Site.
• Retrieve your password.
  • Click on the "login" link on the left side of the page, and click the link under the "I've forgotten my password" section to the right of the login boxes.
  • Enter your UNC e-mail address in the form of onyen@email.unc.edu (aliases will not work). The system will email you your password.
  • Retrieve your password from your email, return to the ELMS site, and login.
• Find your software. Once you are logged into the system, you can select the software packages you need and add them to your cart.
• Choose your format. You will have the option to either download the CD image (in the form of a .iso file that can then be burned to a CD) or to checkout the software CD from the SILS lab. We recommend that you choose the download option, as it will be easier for you to install and make copies for yourself.
• Check out. Once you have checked out, the system will provide you with the product keys/serial numbers you need to install the software. These will NOT be e-mailed to you -- you must view them on the ELMS website.
• Get your software.
  • If you chose to download your software, you may do so after you checkout. The ELMS site provides downloads in the form of .ISO files, which are disk image files. In order to "open" these files, you must download software that either burns the file to a CD or creates a "virtual" CD of the file.
  • If you opted to check out the CD from the helpdesk, swing by and borrow it from us (and please note that software CDs from the SILS lab must remain in the lab at all times).
• If you have any questions about the ELMS website or the software installation, please stop by the SILS Help Desk, help@ils.unc.edu, or call us: (919)962-8188.

Software available on the SILS lab computers

• Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows/Office 2008 for Mac
• OpenOffice
• Adobe Creative Suite 3 (Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc)
• Roxio Creator
• SPSS
• Video editing tools
• FTP and SSH clients
• ...and a lot more. Let us know if you have questions.