Software

Service Description:

The Pitzer College Office of Information Technology has several software packages available for Pitzer-owned computers including the classrooms and computer labs on campus. There are currently many packages available for person computers as well.

Available to:

Everyone

How to access the service:

For Maple, SPSS, and Stata, please complete: Software Request form

Please contact Pitzer IT Help Desk for requests by other 5C students or for software not listed.

The following is a list of software solutions offered:

Solution

Supported Software

Available for

Faculty Staff Students Document Creation – Word processing, document mark-up and annotation, making PDFs Acrobat Pro DC (Adobe CC) √ √ √ Google Docs – – √ Microsoft Word (Office 365) √ √ √ Presentations – Create lectures, slideshows, draw on-screen, virtual whiteboards Acrobat Pro DC (Adobe CC) √ √ √ Google Slides – – √ Microsoft PowerPoint (Office 365) √ √ √ Windows Ink (PC ONLY) √ √ √ Zoom Whiteboard √ √ – Screen Recording – Recording your screen/presentations along with voiceover capabilities QuickTime (MAC ONLY) √ √ √ Loom Pro √ √ √ Microsoft Teams (Office 365) √ √ √ OBS √ √ √ Windows 10 Built-in (Hold down Win+G) √ √ √ Video/Films – Watch, share, distribute films and recorded lectures securely Box √ √ √ Google Drive – – √ Streaming Video √ – √ Vimeo Basic √ √ √ Youtube √ √ √ Zoom – – – Chat/Conversation – Converse via text, messaging, or video in specified groups (e.g. by course, class) Google Meet √ √ √ Microsoft Outlook (Office365) √ √ – Microsoft Teams (Office365) √ √ √ Zoom √ √ –

Time Scheduling Applications – Assisting with setting up times for meetings and appointments Outlook Poll Scheduling √ √ – Calendly √ √ √ Doodle √ √ √

Clould File Storage – Store and share files securely Box √ √ – Google Drive – – √ Surveys / Polls – Quickly and accurately collect data, input, and feedback from people Qualtrics √ √ √ Google Forms – – √ Microsoft Forms (Office365) √ √ √

Academic Software Description Available For

Computer Labs, On-Campus Computers Personal Devices Adobe Creative Cloud Suite Acrobat Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, etc. √ √ ArcGIS Desktop Windows-Only desktop version of the geographic information system for working with maps; typically used in EA courses. Download from the Claremont Colleges Library √ √ ArcGIS Online Browser-based version of the geographic information system for working with maps; Typically used in EA courses. Login via the Claremont Colleges Library √ √ HeartMath / Freezeframer Device and software for measuring heart rhythms and patterns, used in XYZ course. √ Class Enrollment HyperResearch Qualitative analysis; used in XYZ courses √ Class Enrollment Kurzweil3000
√ √ Maple Symbolic and numeric computing environment as well as a multi-paradigm programming language; used in XYZ courses √ √ Mathematica Modern technical computing system for neural networks, machine learning, image processing, geometry, data science, visualizations, etc; used in XYZ courses √ √ Matlab Multi-paradigm numerical computing environment that allows for matric manipulations, plotting of functions and fata, implementation of algorithms, etc; used in XYZ courses √ – Microsoft Office 365 Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. √ √ SPSS
√ √ Stata
√ √

Peer-Recommended Tools
Software that, though not fully supported by Pitzer IT, our community has found useful Audacity Audacity is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application for Windows and MacOS Mango Mango is a non-commercial software for viewing, editing and analyzing volumetric medical images Praat Praat is a free computer software package for speech analysis in phonetics R R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing Skype Skype is a telecommunications application that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, and mobile devices Slack Slack is a proprietary business communication platform that offers many IRC-style features Survey Monkey Online survey tool that allows you to launch any kind of online survey project