OVERVIEW
Target audience: Students, faculty, and staff
McGill's campus software program includes a wide range of software applications for use by the community.
In this article:
- Available software - includes who is eligible to use it, how to get it, and support information
- Additional references - includes related resources for software and links to help make content accessible for all users
Notes:
- For assistance installing software on this list, please contact the IT Service Desk.
- For support using the software, see the vendor's support links provided.
- The term "Faculty," used below, includes Professors Emeriti with an appointment.
- Important: To free up storage space, please delete any older, unused software versions. New software installations do not always remove older versions automatically, so you may need to uninstall them yourself.
Tip for faculty, staff, and researchers:
If you would like McGill to provide a specific software or cloud service, first verify that we don't already have an approved cloud solution that meets your needs. See McGill Approved and Rejected Cloud solutions. If no solution meets your needs, please submit a request via the Software or cloud service acquisition webform.
SOFTWARE |
WHO CAN ACCESS & HOW |
SUPPORT & OTHER INFO |
|---|---|---|
| ArcGIS Enterprise (Esri) | Students, Faculty, Staff Access through SSO from your web browser. |
For software-related issues, contact gicsupport@mcgill.ca |
| ArcGIS Pro (Esri) | Students, Faculty, Staff Access at many computer labs on campus, or download and install from the Software Download site on your own computer. Log in with your McGill credentials. |
For software-related issues, contact gicsupport@mcgill.ca |
| Camtasia Studio (Techsmith) |
Students Faculty, Staff |
For software-related issues, contact TechSmith. View Camtasia tutorials on the TechSmith website. See also Recording lectures with screen recording software (Camtasia). |
| ChemDraw |
Students, Faculty, Staff After you have been granted access to the ChemDraw portal:
McGill's Chemdraw license includes the free use of Revvity's SignalsNotebook, standard edition, a cloud based subscription service of an intuitive electronic notebook. |
For software-related issues, contact Revvity Signals |
|
EndNote (citation management) |
Student Faculty, Staff | For software-related issues, contact the library or EndNote directly.
Check the library for software update information. Note: Safari has known issues with EndNote; Mozilla Firefox is the recommended browser. |
| Endpoint protection for work computers | Faculty, Staff Endpoint protection software is installed on McGill-managed work computers and computers in public areas on campus. | We recommend that all McGill students, faculty, and staff members install antivirus software on their personal devices or use the antivirus protection that comes with their devices. |
| Gaussian software | Students, Faculty, Staff Download Gaussian for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Requires serial number provided in download file. |
For software-related issues, contact Gaussian. |
| JMP (SAS Institute) | Students, Faculty, Staff Download and install versions for Mac and Windows from the Software Licensing site. | For software-related issues, contact JMP. |
| LimeSurvey |
Faculty, Staff Students Limited to students working on a thesis or special project. Must be sponsored by a professor or a McGill staff member. Any other use of the survey tool will be denied. See the LimeSurvey Service description in the next column to request access to the tool. |
The LimeSurvey service description includes alternative survey tools, instructions to request access, training material, and documentation. |
| Mathematica (Wolfram Research) | Students, Faculty, Staff For Faculty and staff's home use, follow this link to request a home use license: Faculty/staff (for home use) - This option requires a no-charge order and may take a couple of days for the order to process. For staff and students's: download from Wolfram website by following these steps:
Once an activation key has been created, the license will appear on your Wolfram User Portal. | For software-related issues, contact Wolfram. |
| MATLAB and Tools (MathWorks) |
Students, Faculty, Staff Create a Mathworks account using your McGill email address. | For software-related issues, contact Mathworks support. |
| Office 365 ProPlus (Microsoft) | Students, Faculty, Staff (for use on personal computers/devices)
See the service description for access. | See notes on accessibility below. |
| Qualtrics (e-elections) |
Faculty and staff (Exceptionally students who are also staff.) This service can be used to hold elections using electronic ballots instead of a paper-based voting process. | *About Qualtrics service description and access instructions |
| REDCap |
Students, Faculty, Staff Limited for research purposes. Access to the software is subject to approval. | * About: REDCap service description and access instructions For questions pertaining to research software, contact Digital Research Services at drs@mcgill.ca. |
| Respondus (Respondus, Inc.) |
Students, Faculty, Staff |
Find documentation for Respondus in the Teaching and Learning Knowledge Base. For software-related issues, contact Respondus. |
| SAS (SAS, Inc.) | Students, Faculty, Staff Download from the Software Licensing site. Requires the provided license to install. |
For software-related issues, contact SAS Support (may require additional information from IT Services). If you need to renew the license:
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| SigmaPlot (Systat) | Faculty, Staff Download from the Software Licensing site. Requires the provided license to install. | For software-related issues, contact SigmaPlot. |
| Slido |
Faculty, Students | See About: Polling @ McGill for support and documentation. |
| SMART Notebook Software | Faculty, Staff This software is installed in classrooms that contain SMART interactive displays. Instructors wishing to use their own laptops in these classrooms may install the drivers and ink from the SMART Tech website. | See Classrooms equipped with interactive displays. |
| SnagIt (TechSmith) |
Students | For software-related issues, contact TechSmith. |
| SPSS Statistical Software | Students, Faculty, Staff Download from the Software Licensing site. SPSS can be installed on systems owned by faculty, staff, and students for teaching and non-commercial academic research. |
For software-related issues, contact IBM - SPSS (may require additional information from IT Services). |
| Toad for Oracle (Quest Software) | Faculty, Staff Access to the software is subject to approval. Please contact the service owner and provide the department, description of need, and usage details. Tool for Oracle Application Developers, more widely known as Toad for Oracle, is part of a toolset for managing relational and non-relational databases using SQL. It is aimed at database developers, database administrators, and data analysts. |
For software-related issues, please contact Quest. The software license agreement between McGill and Quest is valid until June 27, 2026, and does not extend to any installation on personal devices. This license agreement covers using the Base Edition and Database Admin Module. |
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES:
- All McGill users can visit the McGill Computer Store, which offers educational discounts for many software products.
- About Software Licensing (service description)
For guidance on accessibility with Microsoft Office and Adobe products, see: