Colby provides a variety of software for faculty, staff, and student use on personal computers. Faculty and staff may also request the purchase or licensing of software not currently available for use on Colby owned computers. In some cases, ITS may be able to recommend existing software to meet stated requirements. Software purchases may receive limited or no ITS financial or technical support, however, the acquisition, license management, and installation of requested software will be coordinated by ITS.
To request software, submit a software request form from the button on this record. ITS will review available purchasing or licensing options for the requested software and then contact you with cost details. Should you wish to proceed with the purchase, you may be asked to provide more information including the account number to charge and the location(s) of the Colby owned computers where the software is to be installed.
Administrative software requests will be reviewed to evaluate breadth of institutional use and may need to be approved by the IT Steering Committee. In general, the cost will be borne by the requesting department.
Colby funds may be used to purchase or license software only for College owned computers.