TechConnect

• Loyola University Chicago Apple Store Home

Although Loyola University Chicago does not require students to have a personal computer, it is recommended. Whether you purchase a laptop or desktop computer, tablet or other productivity devices, it is important to balance quality and performance with cost. This store is customized by Apple in order to provide educational discounts for a variety of Apple products. Consider these recommendations/minimum requirements as reviewed by ITS:

• Loyola University Chicago Lenovo Discount Store

Although Loyola University Chicago does not require students to have a personal computer, it is recommended. Whether you purchase a laptop or desktop computer, tablet or other productivity devices, it is important to balance quality and performance with cost. This store is customized by Lenovo in order to provide educational discounts for a variety of Lenovo PC hardware and software.

While there are many PC manufacturers to select from, consider these recommendations/minimum requirements as reviewed by ITS:

• B&H EDU Advantage

B&HPhotoVideo offers a wide array of multimedia equipment, tools, and technologies like cameras, camcorders, lighting, and so much more.

• Students can sign up directly on the website with your @luc.edu email and verify their status through Unidays process.
• Faculty and Staff can register or sign-up at on-campus events or email kathh AT bhphoto DOT com from your @luc.edu account to request an EDU account for personal discounted pricing.

Loyola University students, faculty and staff are eligible for discounts on personal devices and plans.

• AT&T Discounts for Loyola University Chicago students
• AT&T Discounts for Loyola University Chicago employees

If you already an AT&T Customer and would like to enroll in these discounts, visit att.com/discounts to register. Enter your cellphone and email address. The employee or student is required to be the primary line on the account for validation process. The discount is available to AT&T customers who are using AT&T Wireless postpaid offers. If you don't have a Loyola email address, visit your local AT&T Corporate retail store.

• Verizon Discounts for Loyola University Chicago employees

Loyola University faculty and staff are eligible to get service discount from Verizon on personal devices and plans. Click on the Validate by Paystub link from Verizon's page to begin this process.

• T-Mobile Discounts for Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University faculty and staff are eligible to get service discounts from T-Mobile on personal plans.

• Faculty/Staff switching to T-Mobile: Take advantage of the Work Perks offer which is a savings of up to $200 on T-Mobile's most popular rate plan, Magenta MAX.
• Faculty/Staff currently with T-Mobile: call T-Mobile’s Business Direct Telesales at 877-334-7099 and ask about how you can participate. One new voice line required, with verification of employment within 30 days of new line activation.

• Visit the Microsoft 365 pages to learn more.

All students, faculty and staff have the ability to download and install Microsoft Office desktop applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, etc) on up to 5 personal devices. Microsoft Office365 also affords numerous online suite of resources like OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams and more.

• Loyola University Chicago OnTheHub Store

Loyola University Chicago students can take advantage of academic pricing for software from Varsity Buys including other Microsoft products such as Windows 10.

• Adobe Creative Cloud pricing for Students & Teachers
• Adobe Creative Cloud Express

Loyola University Chicago students can take advantage of academic pricing for software from Adobe directly from their Adobe Creative Cloud Student & Teachers plan. Additionally, Adobe offers Adobe Creative Cloud Express as a free set of online tools with design and image editing in mind.

Adobe offers several free, web-based tools to convert files from one file type to another including:

• Adobe PDF to Word converter
• Adobe PDF to Excel converter
• Adobe PDF to PowerPoint converter
• Adobe "Convert to PDF" which works for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or image files.
• Adobe Compress PDF size

• Loyola University Chicago OnTheHub Store

Loyola University Chicago students, faculty and staff can take advantage of academic pricing for software from OnTheHub including various Statistics applications including products from IBM SPSS, Minitab, NVivo, JMP, EViews, and more.

Mathematica is the world’s most powerful global computing environment. Ideal for use in engineering, mathematics, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, and a wide range of other fields, it makes possible a new level of automation in algorithmic computation, interactive manipulation, and dynamic presentation—as well as a whole new way of interacting with the world of data.

In order to obtain Mathematica 10 for Loyola Faculty and Students, follow these steps:

1. Visit the Wolfram User Portal and register with a valid Loyola email address (@luc.edu).
2. This will create an automated email which requires a response to validate the portal account.
   
3. Once you have validated your Wolfram Portal Account, login and complete the Wolfram Activation Key Request Form.
4. Complete the form with all required information including your name, email and department. Select a product and platform and click Submit.
   
5. Upon completion of the form, your personalized Activation Key will be presented in order to activate the full application license.
   

SPSS is a full-featured data analysis program that offers a variety of applications including data base managements and reporting, statistical analysis, and graphics.‌

• Click here for Student and Faculty at-home information

Hierarchical Linear Modeling and Non-Hierarchical Linear Modeling software from SSI, International is available to students for use on their personal computers at no cost. The student edition, while free, limits the size of the model you may analyze and technical support is not available. Faculty who wish to try out HLM on their personal computers can download a free trial version which is good for 15 days.

• Click here for more information on discounts and availability

Lisrel is a Structural Equation Modeling software from SSI, International is available to students for use on their personal computers at no cost. The student edition, while free, limits the size of the model you may analyze and technical support is not available. 

• Click here for more information on discounts and availability

Comprehensive statistics package to analyze data and improve products and services.

• Click here for more information on discounts and availability
• Manufacturer homepage

NVivo is software that helps you to work with unstructured information like documents, surveys, audio, video and pictures—so that you can ultimately make better decisions.

• Click here for more information on discounts and availability

SAS provides a technology platform for market-leading analytic applications. Although there is no free trial, through SAS Fellowship Program, students can apply for research grant from SAS to use software free for their research projects for 6 months.‌

• Click here for more information on discounts and availability

A statistics and statistical graphics software package.

• Click here for more information on discounts and availability

Visit the University Information Security Office (UISO) page to learn more about Anti-Virus software applications here.

Prey is a complete anti-theft application that lets you track and locate your lost or stolen iPhone, iPad and Mac laptop. Locate and recover your device with geolocation and many more features.

• Prey Project Device Security, Tracking and Protection
• iTunes App Store link
• Android App Google Play link

Absolute Home & Office helps businesses and individuals track, manage, secure and recover computers. Remote data and device security features to prevent use of a lost laptop, protect privacy remotely and map a laptop's location. This service includes a dedicated theft recovery team that works with local law enforcement to track a stolen laptop.

• Absolute Home & Office Product Page

Track and locate laptops, smartphones and tablets. Prevent asset theft and data breaches with anti-theft countermeasure including hard drive lockout, out-of-band file encryption and full disk encryption PIN revocation.

• EXO5 Product Page