Adobe
Can be purchased be contacting IT/AV but please note some packages are only available under Adobe's cloud subscription service – see software prices or email the software support team for information.
Appsanywhere
The SGUL AppsAnywhere App store gives you access to long list of SGUL licensed and free applications to install on your personally owned (or SGUL managed) Laptop or PC. Click on the link below to have a look at what's available:
https://appsanywhere.sgul.ac.uk
GraphPad Prism
Biostatistics, curve-fitting and scientific graphing. Free of charge for students, £80 per year for staff. Available (with certain restrictions) on submission of the Prism request form.
See also GraphPad Prism
Microsoft Office
SGUL students and staff can install Office 365 on up to 5 personally owned MAC OSX or Windows devices. To do this:
- In your web browser enter or click on this URL https://www.office.com/
- Sign in with your SGUL email address and password.
- Click on the link that says "Install Office" at the top right hand side of the page
- Select office 365 apps and follow the instructions on screen.
For other Microsoft software including Project and Visio see software prices for more details.
NVivo
Windows
To get up and running right away with NVivo on a windows device use AppsAnywhere
Mac OSX
To install NVivo on Mac OSX please fill out the form here.
PDF Converter
Kofax Power PDF Advanced and many other apps can be installed by pointing your browser to https://appsanywhere.sgul.ac.uk and logging in with your SGUL username and password.
R
Software for statistical analysis and modelling packages. Available for Windows devices through AppsAnywhere
Stata
Windows
To get up and running right away with Stata on a Window device, use AppsAnywhere
Max OSX
1) Download Quartz and install it as you would any other Mac package. Quartz is an example of a display management application:
XQuartz
2) Start using X11 forwarding on your Mac using the -Y switch
a) Open the Terminal app
i) Open or quit Terminal on Mac – Apple Support (UK)
b) Connect to stats3 using the following command
i) ssh -Y yourusername@stats3.sgul.ac.uk for example if your username was jsmith you would type ssh -Y jsmith@stats3.sgul.ac.uk
ii) Run stata by typing xstata
SPSS
Windows
To get up and running right away with SPSS on a Windows device, use AppsAnywhere
Mac OSX
To install IBM SPSS on Mac OSX, please contact the ITAV Support team or visit the IT clinic which is open Monday to Friday from 12pm tp 2pm in room J0.27.
VMware Horizon
VMware Horizon can be installed through Software Center from any SGUL managed PC or laptop.
To access the software available on the central statistics server you may need to install an additional piece of software (eg Xming) first. Please contact IT/AV Support for advice.
MatLab
MatLab for Linux – X Windows version. Instructions on how to connect to MatLab on our server can be found here.
See MatLab.
Octave
Numerical computations (MatLab compatible). See Octave.
Passwd
Change your password in LDAP and Unix.
SAS
Stats package (restricted use; email the software support team for access). See SAS.
Various groups across the university will wish to run surveys at different times during the academic year and we have a number of tools to help you with this.
Microsoft Forms
If you need to create a survey or questionnaire as part of your work or study, you should use Microsoft Forms.
You can access Microsoft Forms via the SGUL O365 Portal by going to and clicking on the Forms icon.
Help and tips on how to create a survey using Microsoft Forms can be found here. For further help please email lts@sgul.ac.uk
Please make sure you refer to any other relevant guidance before setting up your survey, for example in terms of either data protection or research ethics requirements.
Data protection guidance is available here and more details for researchers can be found here.
JISC Online Surveys
Where Microsoft Forms does not provide the necessary functionality for your needs, it may be possible to use JISC Online Surveys instead.
For further information and to request access to Online Surveys please email the Learning & Development Manager at staffdev@sgul.ac.uk
Survey Monkey
Survey Monkey is a very popular online tool but we do not recommend its use due to data protection concerns.