What's covered
The full office and collaboration suite, a citation manager, the statistics and modelling packages your courses assume you have, and antivirus — all free to install on personal devices while you're enrolled. Specialty design and engineering software is available at steep education discounts rather than free.
The catch
These are enrolled-student licences: they check in periodically and stop working after you graduate or withdraw. Plan to buy your own copy of anything you'll need after, or switch to a free alternative — the portal notes which tools have one.
In and around Porter Falls
The Technology Help Desk is on the first floor of the Jarvis Technology Center. One student identity signs into MyPorter, the learning environment, campus Wi-Fi, printing and the library.
The practical details
Free while enrolled: The office suite, a reference manager, statistical and CAD packages for relevant courses, security tools. Discounted: Design and engineering suites at education pricing through the campus store. Get it: The software portal in MyPorter; licences deactivate after you leave. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Technology Help Desk (Jarvis Technology Center, Room 105). Call (715) 555–0120 or email helpdesk@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.