What products are covered under the CLA and who can use them?
This varies by whether you’re a faculty/staff member, or a student. Generally, both subsets of the user community have access to the Basic Desktop – this includes an upgrade to the most recent operating system, the Office Suites (for both Intel and Macintosh systems), and client-access-licenses (CALs) which allow a computer to interact with a variety of server-based products – some of which are deployed already at LSU and some which may be in the future. Beyond the Basic Desktop: Faculty/staff have access to FrontPage (a webpage development tool), Visual Studio (a collection of programming tools), and OneNote (a note-taking tool). Students have access to OneNote only, as this was the choice of products the students selected to be paid for by STF at this time. The faculty/staff package is what has been deployed at LSU, for participating departments, for the past several years and ITS felt it best to maintain availability of this toolset as it was expanded across campus. The decision to
