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The Dell Premier Page is where you will find the lowest prices available for Dell computers and Dell branded accessories. To get started, please visit Dell Premier and use the Shop tab at the top of the page. Once you have finished shopping go to your cart and “Print Cart” – PDF the resulting page. Be sure to attach the PDF to your order in Procurify before submitting.

The Apple Store for Education is where you will find the lowest prices available for Apple computers, iOS devices, and Apple branded accessories. To get started, please visit The Apple Store for Education. Once you have added your items to the cart, open it and PDF the page. Be sure to attach the PDF to your order in Procurify before submitting. Our procurement team will then submit the request to the Terrapin Technology Store giving you an extra 2% off your order.

TERPware is a software distribution service for University of Maryland students, faculty, and staff. TERPware offers a wide variety of software packages at no charge, including site-licensed products from Adobe, Microsoft, and other vendors. Software packages include programs for operating systems, office applications, and anti-virus. The university pays for the licenses through agreements with vendors; this allows students, faculty, and staff to use the programs available through TERPware free of charge. The TERPware server is regularly updated, so patches and upgrades for UMD-supported software are consistently available.

Procurify is a cloud based procurement software solution that helps manage our internal procurement process. This solution helps us streamline our internal purchasing process while reducing the dependency on paperwork. If you have an account, please visit Procurify to submit or manage a purchase request. If you do not have an account, or need help getting started, please visit meHELP.

G Suite for Education is a set of web applications for personal productivity and collaboration for use by faculty, staff, and graduate students. Provisioned automatically for faculty, staff and Graduate Assistants with active appointments. Students have access G Suite through TERPmail.

Applications include: Gmail for email, Contacts, Calendar, Forms, Docs for word processing, Sheets for spreadsheets, Slides for presentations, Drive for cloud storage, and Chat/Meet/Hangouts for real-time communication.

Save your work files to Drive and use Docs, Sheets, and Slides to edit them. You can share with co-workers and edit the same file at the same time, showing revisions and comments. Because Drive is integrated with Gmail, you can now save attachments directly to Drive. Plus, with unlimited storage, you never have to worry about saving or uploading too much.

All rights and responsibilities established in the UMD Policy on the Acceptable Use of IT Resources apply to this service.

Box is a cloud-based storage and collaboration system that provides a Web interface for uploading, downloading, sharing, and discussing files. It is designed to work on Macs, PCs, smartphones, and tablets, so it gives you access to your files from just about anywhere. Plus, with unlimited storage, you never have to worry about saving or uploading too much.

All rights and responsibilities established in the UMD Policy on the Acceptable Use of IT Resources apply to this service.

Webex includes integrated voice through your computer, on-campus dial-in at x50600 and through a global network of dial-in numbers. Webex enables faculty, staff, and students to meet with internal and external colleagues over the Internet using multi-party conferencing and screen sharing. WebEx is designed to work on PCs, Macs, smartphones, and tablets.

Webex provides three centers: Meeting Center is video conferencing in your personal virtual meeting room or in a scheduled room; Training Center provides lectures, labs and breakout sessions online; and Event Center is great for large “broadcast” events and webinars.

Instructors or room “owners” control how others can communicate within the room; modes include: voice, video, presentations, and chat. Proceedings of a WebEx session can be recorded and shared with students within the ELMS course space via a link to the WebEx service.

lynda.com is a leading online learning company that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Through our academic subscription, UMD students, faculty, and staff have access to the lynda.com video library of engaging, top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts. lynda.com is available whenever you’re ready to learn. You can even view it on your iPhone, iPad, Android phone or tablet, or other mobile device. Use it to develop skills in Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, leadership, project management, social media, video production, and a wide range of other topics.

Qualtrics is a web-based survey tool available for use by all University of Maryland faculty, staff, and students to support teaching and research on campus. Qualtrics allows you to create, test, and execute high-quality on-line surveys.  It provides a wide range of question types and formats, different strategies for distributing and following up with targeted respondents,  and a suite of analysis and reporting tools.