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Everyone at Cornell can access "DreamSpark Standard" for free. STEM use for research and teaching can also get "DreamSpark Premium" for free, under Cornell's MS site-license agreement (versus $499 enrollment + annual renewal fee). ChemIT's subscription expires 2017-10-16. |
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Hopefully CU Software Licensing Support will make the information below available centrally, provide more elegant access to the Cornell-only promo codes (linked below), and correct any of my errors. :-) In the meantime, I hope the information I collected below helps others at Cornell save time and money.
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Cornell University - Astronomy - DreamSpark Premium
Cornell University - Chemistry and Chemical Biology - DreamSpark Premium
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- When I went through this process, I heard back from Microsoft (MS) within days. However, there was a recent report from another IT Admin attempting to sign up their department as a DreamSpark Premium subscriber, and after two weeks still not having yet heard back from MS. If this happens to you, CU Software Licensing Support <cusoftware@cornell.edu> recommends contacting our DreamSpark contact. (The link to that contact is restricted, so if it doesn't work, contact CU Software Licensing Support <cusoftware@cornell.edu>.)
- In the "DreamSpark Membership Selection" window, you must choose the type of membership delivery. Note that you don’t have to pay anything for download delivery (to you or eligible participants). You only have to pay to get physical delivery of physical media. I suspect most departments won’t pay for the physical media (versions changes, anyone?), and a department/ individual can press their own media from the download of select packages, if really needed.
Renewals
Campus experience in renewals
Bez Thomas in Astronomy summarized his renewal process, with screenshots, which I've posted here:
In August 2016, ChemIT renewed for the first time, using notes from this site.
ChemIT has not had to renew, so no experiential information to share on that process.
Snapshot of our "
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Eligibility" as of 3/15/16:
You are a member of (or have requested membership in) the following groups:
| Organization: | Cornell University - Chemistry and Chemical Biology - DreamSpark Premium |
| User Groups: | Lab Installers |
| Verification Method: | Added by administrator |
| Status: | Verified (Expires: 2017-10-16) |
However, Note that before we had renewed the first time another group on campus wrote to tell us that if you let your subscription expire for more 30-days before renewing, you'll have to apply as if it were a new account. So that's what they did.
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