If CCB pays for a subscription and administers permission lists, CCB faculty and students get professional developer tools and software from Microsoft via downloads.
STEM is "Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math".

Success! See our DreamSpark page with registration instructions.

Snapshot of our licensing status, just FYI

Cornell University - Chemistry and Chemical Biology - Microsoft Imagine Premium

Why should CCB do this?

• Any graduate student can get any version of Windows ($40-200) on their personal laptops, for free. They don't have to delete the software when they leave, since license is "Perpetual Rights". But they must get the software before they leave!
• Research labs, like Freed's, get expensive (price?) programming software for free. Ex. Visual Studio Pro 2012, $500 list (no academic pricing?).
• One Note for both researchers and students.
• May promote use of Visio (drawing tools) and MS Project, especially if staff can use it.
• Provides ChemIT staff (CCB representatives) 4 Technical Support Incidents and Priority Support in MSDN (MS Developer Network) Forums.

Administrative costs and possible process:

• If cover research areas: Add via updated lists coming from CCB Admin (Kevin or Sharon). And/ or add people ad hoc.
• If cover graduate students: Add via updated lists coming from Instruction (Pat) or from CCB Admin (Kevin or Sharon).
• Re: Undergraduates taking Chem classes: Too much work, and not enough academic reason, to add/ maintain/ support undergraduate students under this program, even if technically possible. However, might add students in a class if a professor is requiring use of a specific software package covered by this license.

Eligibility requirements

Institutional (all of Cornell University)

https://www.dreamspark.com/institution/subscription.aspx#TabbedPanelsContent2

Cornell does or can get DreamSpark Standard institution-wide.

https://www.dreamspark.com/Institution/Access.aspx

The only accounts showing up are for Premium, and it shows that license for all departments/ Colleges which have applied.

BUT, it also shows that license for the top-level University level:

Cornell University - University - DreamSpark Premium

Departmental level

CCB-level. Or A&S level, if they were "STEM", like Hotel and Management schools. :-)

We want DreamSpark Premium for CCB, at least. We can get it since we are a STEM department:

https://www.dreamspark.com/Institution/STEM.aspx

Costs and software licensed

https://www.dreamspark.com/institution/subscription.aspx

New Subscription Pricing Options

• Electronic Software Delivery (1 year): $499 USD
• Electronic Software Delivery (3 years): $1,025 USD
• Electronic Software Delivery + DVD (1 year): $799 USD
• Electronic Software Delivery + DVD (3 years): $1,437 USD

Renewal Subscription Pricing Options

• Electronic Software Delivery (1 year): $320 USD
• Electronic Software Delivery (3 years): $799 USD
• Electronic Software Delivery + DVD (1 year): $399 USD
• Electronic Software Delivery + DVD (3 year): $1,079 USD

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From: Andre Hafner
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 10:23 AM
To: James M Pulver; Oliver B. Habicht
Subject: Re: Anyone subscribed to MS's DreamSpark Premium service?

Hello,

I have a Dreamspark account. I'd be happy to give you any info needed. Thanks - Andre

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From: Fraker, Michael [mailto:mf89]
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 9:26 AM
To: Oliver B. Habicht
Subject: Dreamspark

Hi,

I am the Dreamspark administrator at the Hotel School.  We use Dreamspark for our Lab computers to have Project and Visio.  We also use it to give certain Faculty who want it access to Project, Visio, and Visual Studio that are not covered under the campus agreement.  In addition, for one class we give students access to it so they can have Windows licenses.

Michael Fraker
IT Systems Solutions Specialist
Cornell University School of Hotel Administration
145 Statler Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
607-254-5252

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From: Kevin Baradet
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 8:07 AM
To: Oliver B. Habicht
Subject: RE: Anyone subscribed to MS's DreamSpark Premium service?

I've set up DreamSpark for a class here at Johnson. Be glad to chat with you.

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Software licensing gurus,

If anyone is using Microsoft's "DreamSpark Premium" subscription service, please contact me off-list <oh10@cornell.edu> so I might learn more. Thanks!

Here's some info I found about this subscription:

https://www.dreamspark.com/institution/subscription.aspx

I want understand what it might mean administratively for our department (Chemistry) to "sponsor" this subscription.  And I want to make sure I understand the full "deal", including section 4, "USE RIGHTS" in the EULA:

https://www.dreamspark.com/licensing/basic-EULA.aspx

It seems that the service is a "Shibboleth Federated Partner", which makes me hopeful it represents low admin overhead:

https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/IDM/Shibboleth+Federated+Partners
      Shibboleth Service Provider URLs

But I see no mention of this option at CIT's software documentation pages, such as:

http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/software_licensing/about/other-software-sources.cfm
        Services > Software Licensing > About > Other Software Sources

Thanks for any real-work experience and info you can share with me!