 Hardware & Software

A brief table of the availability of software by affiliation to the university.

When deciding whether you need to purchase Adobe Acrobat Pro, consider the following features compared to the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Users must sign into Adobe products every two weeks, and here are the steps to do so.

University Technology offers many services and applications related to Generative AI. Below are some AI technologies available to the campus community.

MediaVision's production services provide audio visual rental services for items such as microphones, sound systems, projection equipment and meeting accessories at significant discounts.

​​​​​​​BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Device, often referring to both laptops and portable computers, and to cell or smart phones and tablets that are not purchased, paid for, or owned by the university. BYOD means personally-owned, not university-owned devices.

Case Western Reserve University has an enhanced partnership with RET3 Job Corp., a nonprofit organization dedicated to refurbishing and recycling electronic equipment to donate to the community. The Green Computing Program provides refurbished computers to schools and non-profits in Northeast Ohio.

CWRU's YouTube Channel is a formidable component of the mobile learning suite of services that students increasingly expect and rely on for academic exploration and excellence. From public lectures to lab demonstrations to research seminars and more, students can access 26 playlists with hundreds of videos on the CWRU YouTube channel. Selected content from CWRU events is also posted on a Case branded YouTube channel, viewable by anyone worldwide for free and a powerful way to showcase our campus

A list of data privacy and data management principles that are followed by UTech staff when bringing university data into the data lake (data hub).

Case Western Reserve University's Acceptable Use Policy requires computers on the University's network to have antivirus software.

University Technology operates electronic information displays in each residence hall and in selected academic buildings across campus. Members of the campus community may upload event fliers as well as photos of the campus and community to the information boards. More information about this, guidelines, as well as submitting items can be found at photos.case.edu.

The Faculty Information System (FIS) is a university-wide, secure hub of faculty appointment, demographic, teaching, research and scholarship, and service information for CWRU faculty.

The HoloAnatomy Software Suite is now available for download on the Software Center. More information can be found at case.edu/holoanatomy.

Through the UTech Care Center in KSL, UTech can provide short or long term laptop loans to students. There is a limited supply of these machines.

There are multiple ways to print to the Law School printers, and the easiest is to use Papercut Mobility Print.

You may upload your documents (Microsoft Office or Adobe PDF) to the PaperCut website and print from there.

MediaVision provides top-notch audio and video production, videoconferencing support, graphic design, animation, technology training, content creation, editing, and communications strategy to the Case Western Reserve University campus in support of UTech customers.

MyApps provides a virtual desktop environment with access to run all of the software licensed to any CWRU community member based on program of study, course enrollment or role at the university, without the need for installation on a computer.

Users have personal storage space within MyApps through the H Drive or can utilize Box or Google drive.

This article provides some information on troubleshooting MyApps issues.

CWRU has partnered with Dell and Apple to offer attractive educational discounts to faculty, staff and students on computers for personal use. For the best value on pre-configured premier systems built for high performance, reliability and ease of connectivity at CWRU, purchase your new Dell or Apple machine through the CWRU eStore.

The CWRU Software Center serves the needs of its faculty, staff and students by providing essential computing software for PC, MAC and some Linux machines. Numerous software packages are available for free while other are at significantly reduced cost. Most titles offered to faculty and staff are for use on institutional machines only - see license details for each product for more information.

This article describes how to log into the Tableau data portals to access university data reports and dashboards. This will require multi-factor authentication and some cases VPN as well.

Our team is committed to making your analytics experience in Tableau as accessible as possible, including to those with visual impairments. We're constantly working towards improving the accessibility to ensure equal access to our community of users (both internal and external to CWRU). This article provides resources for Tableau viewers if they should need accessibility assistance.

This article describes where to find resources to help identify what dashboards individual employees have access to as well as where to find a list of all published dashboards on the server.

This article provides basic information on requesting assistance for the Tableau environment. It includes important information to include when submitting a help ticket for issues or requests. There is information within the article for both viewers and creators in Tableau.

This article describes the Tableau license types supported at the University as well as the Tableau environment on campus.

This article describes how viewers can manage their own content, including favorite dashboard on the Tableau data portals.

This article describes the process of connecting to the Tableau Server (data.case.edu) and publishing dashboards from the Tableau Desktop application for Tableau Creators.

This article describes how to request a new Tableau creator license, how to activate your new license, and how to renew your license for staff that are using university funds to purchase a creator license for business purposes.

What is Tableau?

The article describes how faculty and instructors can obtain a group of Tableau analytics software licenses to use in courses. Licenses are directly available from Tableau through the Tableau for Teaching program.

Tableau for Students makes the software available to students free of charge. “Students (K12 and postsecondary) at accredited academic institutions worldwide are eligible for a free one-year license to activate Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep.“ Students must complete the request for (https://www.tableau.com/academic/students-> Get Tableau for Free) to receive an activation code.

The Technology Enhanced Classroom (TEC) initiative at Case Western Reserve University enables instructors and students to access tools and resources available beyond the four walls of the classroom.

Use these instructions to uninstall Symantec Antivirus.

Wēpa is a growing cloud printing network that enables anyone with an internet connection to upload documents and then print them anywhere a wēpa kiosk is located. Additionally, the wēpa kiosk can print documents directly from a USB thumb-drive or popular cloud services such as Google Drive.

OpenSolver is an Excel VBA add-in that extends Excel’s built-in Solver with more powerful solvers.