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ITS supports a variety of public domain and site-licensed software to the Mason Community. View an A-Z listing of available here. You may also make requests for, or report issues with certain Software titles.
Office 365, Mason’s email and calendar system, contains tools to support collaboration. This includes creating distribution lists for mass mailings, generic accounts for use by departments/clubs, and blocking unwanted messages (SPAM). In addition, you can request a change to how your name is displayed.
Technology Support Services (TSS) provides full-service, technical desktop support to faculty and staff for Mason-owned and -managed devices.
Adobe Creative Cloud is a collection of 20+ desktop and mobile apps and services for photography, design, video, web, UX, and more.
Mason’s Learning Management Systems (LMS), contains many tools to support teaching and learning, as well as myMason for use by departments and organizations to stay connected and informed. Poll Everywhere and Honorlock are separate services available within the Blackboard environment. Mason is in the process of bringing Canvas as the new LMS.
Microsoft allows George Mason University to provide the latest version of Microsoft Office, Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise, and other Microsoft products at no cost. Access is tied to your Mason email address.
Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) offers a host of applications for seamless collaboration, communication, and productivity.
Mason offers free, secure, and reliable web hosting to individuals, departments, and organizations within the Mason community.
Network Consultations include requests for a New Virtual Private Network (VPN), or other network changes.
Request a server account or report an issue with a Hosted Server.
Banner is a closed system and an administrative interface that allows authorized users with legitimate needs to perform administrative duties within major functional areas. Patriot Web is a self-service site for students, faculty, and staff to manage their administrative records and accounts.
This service is used to update Mason applications such as Office 365 services after a legal name change.
Mason provides wired and wireless network access for faculty, staff, students, and guests in every campus facility.
Classroom Support provides assistance to faculty and staff for classroom facilities and computer classrooms.
Virtual Computing Services include Citrix Virtual Lab (CVL) and Patriot Virtual Computing (PVC).
Mason offers several data storage solutions for your studies, research, and work.
Mason provides access to its network and telephone service via data jacks that are located in university buildings. Not all jacks are activated at all times.
This service is used to request HR data for your department, request access to Banner, request upload/download of data, or report issues with Banner.
The Patriot Pass credentials are used to access most Mason systems (e.g., Patriot Web, myMason) and are set when you activate your account. If your password is forgotten or expired, you can reset it on the Patriot Pass Password Management page. This site is also used to manage your Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) account methods.
Computer labs offer the university community access to computing resources and a variety of software to support learning, teaching, and research. Labs have printers available through the pay-for-print (PFP) network. To reserve equipment and/or other lab resources, select Reserve Resources.
This is a PDF Reader that allows users to view and print PDF documents.
Camtasia is a software suite, created and published by TechSmith, for creating video tutorials and presentations.