Faculty Use Guidelines
As a member of the MSDN Academic Alliance, the College of Engineering is authorized to provide you, a faculty member of the College of Engineering, with program software for use on your work and personal computer(s). To be in compliance with the MSDNA Academic Alliance program requirements, you must follow these usage guidelines when using the program software on your computer(s). You must also agree to the terms of the MSDN master end-user license agreement (EULA), the Amendment to the EULA, and any conditions required by the College of Engineering.
By installing, copying, or otherwise using the products available through the MSDNAA program, you agree to be bound by the terms of the EULA and the Amendment to the EULA. If you do not agree to be bound, do not install, copy, or use the products available through this license.
Authorization Guidelines:
- Faculty within the College of Engineering are automatically authorized to download program software through the electronic licensing management system (ELMS).
- Your login account name is your gatorlink email address ([gatorlink id]@ufl.edu). Your initial password will be emailed to your gatorlink address.
- The authorized faculty list is updated at the beginning of each semester. If you are a new faculty member and require access before you are automatically authorized please fill out this online form.
- If you are teaching a course which requires access to software available through the MSDNAA license, your students should be automatically authorized after DROP/ADD. Please contact software@eng.ufl.edu if your students continue to report authorization problems to you.
- You may not give copies of loaned software to anyone else. Other qualifying individuals must obtain software via the ELMS system.
- In order to install certain components of the product, you may need an Academic Alliance Product Key ("Product Key"). The Product Key will be assigned solely to download authorized software. You may not disclose the Product Key information to anyone else.
- MIS will maintain records of software downloaded from the server and/or checked out, and will provide those records to Microsoft upon request.
- You may use the software for non-commercial purposes including instructional use, research and/or design, and development and testing of projects for class assignments, tests, or personal projects. You may not use the program software for any for-profit software development.
- When you are no longer part of the College of Engineering you may no longer receive updates for your personal use computer. However, you may continue to use previously installed products on your computer, provided you continue to follow program guidelines.
- If you violate the terms of the EULA and the Amendment to the EULA, MIS will require confirmation of removal of the program software from your personal-use computer.
