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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).

Context

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.

-Oliver Habicht
 ChemIT, Arts and Sciences

Subscription site for software administrators

http://www.dreamspark.com/Institution/Subscription.aspx

Notes

  • You will need a Microsoft account to register.
    • To preserve your unit's access to your subscription, you will want to create one for your group instead of using someone's personal Microsoft account.

Cornell's DreamSpark codes and Agreement number

The DreamSpark Premium promo code is restricted. (If link doesn't work, contact CU Software Licensing Support <cusoftware@cornell.edu>.)

The Microsoft Campus Agreement license number is restricted. (If link doesn't work, contact CU Software Licensing Support <cusoftware@cornell.edu>.)

  • Put this number under enrollment's section called, "OVS_ES, EES / Campus, or School Agreement #"

Notes

  • 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

ChemIT has not had to renew, so no information to share on that process.

However, another group on campus wrote to tell us that if you let your 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.

This information was collected as part of ChemIT's DreamSpark investigation project page.

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