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.
By using the .NET Framework 4.5 together with the C#, Visual Basic, or F# programming language, you can write Windows apps.
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
This is a PDF Reader that allows users to view and print PDF documents.
Adobe Creative Cloud is a collection of 20+ desktop and mobile apps and services for photography, design, video, web, UX, and more.
A mapping and analytics platform with data sharing functionality. Geographic Information System (GIS) for working with maps and geographic information. It is used for: creating and using maps; compiling geographic data; analyzing mapped information; sharing and discovering geographic information; using maps and geographic information in a range of applications, and managing geographic information in a database.
Autodesk builds software that helps people imagine, design, and make a better world. The Autodesk Education License Products is a library of over 100 applications to help you create. This Application Software entry is specifically for the Autodesk Education plan granted to Mason for use in classrooms and labs.
Camtasia is a software suite, created and published by TechSmith, for creating video tutorials and presentations.
Makes it easy to create videos and other rich media, without specialized equipment. Kaltura Personal Capture for Education, part of the Kaltura Capture Suite, combines an intuitive interface with a user-centric experience and interactive viewing to enable easy personal video creation on campus, from the office, at home, or on-the-go.
Cisco Secure Client empowers remote workers with frictionless, highly secure access to the enterprise network from any device, at any time, in any location while protecting the organization.
Citrix Workspace app gives users instant access to online published resources. It provides a portal to view published desktops and applications made available by your organization.
Deep Freeze makes workstation configurations indestructible. Guarantees 100% workstation recovery upon restart. Provides password protection and complete security. Protects multiple hard drives and partitions. Prevents configuration drift and accidental system misconfiguration. Helps maintain Software compliance across all workstations. Protects workstations from unauthorized changes with a simple restart.
DocuSign is an electronic signature and online form workflow solution. With DocuSign, you can send online documents to people who need to sign them and then collect and manage those signatures.
FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS, and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.
Firefox is a web browser.
GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.
Ink2Go is an extremely simple yet powerful screen annotation and recording software.
Faronics Insight is an effective classroom management software that helps teachers create a better learning experience while streamlining IT administration and supporting multiple labs with ease.
A lightweight development environment provides automatic generation of software visualizations to improve comprehensibility.
As the pro version of JMP statistical discovery software, JMP Pro goes to the next level by offering all the capabilities of JMP plus advanced features for more sophisticated analysis, including predictive modeling and cross-validation techniques. Users can harness the power and speed of the supercomputer on their desk to explore and understand data in an easy-to-use interface.
LabStats tracks when, where, and how long students are logged on to hardware resources in computer labs.
LockDown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within a learning management system. Used at over 1500 higher educational institutions, LockDown Browser is the “gold standard” for securing online exams in classrooms or proctored environments.
Wolfram Mathematica is a symbolic mathematical computation programming language used in math, computing, engineering, and other fields.
MATLAB, the language of technical computing, is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation.
Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) offers a host of applications for seamless collaboration, communication, and productivity.
Microsoft (MS) Teams is an enterprise-wide collaboration suite that lives within Mason’s Office 365 environment. At its core, MS Teams provides chat, audio calling, video calling, screen share, and more with individuals and groups outside of a team structure.
A source code editor that supports several languages.
Seamlessly engage audiences across hybrid workspaces through live online polling, surveys, Q&As, quizzes, word clouds, and more.
An implementation of SSH and Telnet for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an “xterm” terminal emulator.
Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively.
Qualtrics is a simple-to-use web-based survey tool to conduct survey research, evaluations, and other data collection activities. Anyone (with no experience) can use this research suite to build surveys, send surveys, and analyze responses.
Software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging, and workspace management.
Respondus is used to create quizzes, surveys, and self-tests external to Blackboard. You can create documents to convert to text files and upload them directly to your Blackboard folder.
Statistical software for data scientists, business analysts, statisticians, and forecasters to explore, analyze and visualize data.
Snagit lets you quickly capture your screen, add additional context, and easily share with coworkers.
Statistical analysis, modeling and survey research tools.
Desktop planetarium application which renders the skies in real-time using OpenGL, which means the skies will look exactly like what you see with your eyes, binoculars, or a small telescope.
A code editor that offers IntelliSense, built-in Git, debugging capability, and numerous extensions to add functionality.
Cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files, and various streaming protocols.
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars.
Reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials. It allows to collect, organize, cite, and share research.