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Flinders systems (A-Z)

Find the name of the service you want to request access, and find training materials and user guidance. 

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Adobe Acrobat Pro

Adobe Acrobat Pro is a PDF software with full editing and publishing capability. It is available on shared student computers and within VirtualApps for use on personal devices.

Available for: Students

Similar to: PDFElement, PDFForge, PDF Reader Pro, Nitro Pro

Learn more


Adobe Creative Cloud

Adobe Creative Cloud is a set of applications and services from Adobe Systems that gives subscribers access to a collection of software used for graphic design, video editing, web development and photography.

Creative Cloud subscription includes Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Audition, Animate, Encore, Flash, InCopy, Muse, Premier, Fireworks and many others apps. Licenses can be purchased at a discounted price directly from Adobe for an annual fee, and are not managed by Flinders University.

Available for: All students

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Adobe Creative Cloud Express

Adobe Creative Cloud Express (was Spark) for web and mobile makes it easy to create social graphics, collages, flyers, videos and animations that look professional in just a few taps.

Available for: All staff and students

Learn more


Camtasia

This screen recording and video editing software enables you to record onscreen activity, audio and web cam video and narrate existing PowerPoint presentations. It also enables the upload and edit video footage captured on mobile devices and digital recorders.

With Camtasia you can customise and edit content both on Mac and Windows platforms, and share your videos with viewers on nearly any device.

Camtasia is available on all student computers managed by Flinders.

Staff can install via the IDS Support Portal on your computer.

Similar to: Ffsplit, CamStudio

Available for: All staff and students on campus and for home use on request.

Learn more

Request home use licence


CellOPark

CellOPark is a parking payment application for smartphones that allows users to instantly start and stop a paid parking session in a CellOPark zone. The application is cloud based and provides users with secure access to their parking history, as well as the ability to produce reports and control parking payments online.

Available for: Anyone

Learn more

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ChemDraw Prime

ChemDraw Prime is a complete entry-level drawing program that provides the tools to create chemically intelligent, publication-ready chemical structures and reactions, laboratory notes and experiment write-ups. As well as a full set of chemical structure essentials such as rings, bonds, chains, atoms and functional groups, ChemDraw Prime includes chemical and lab equipment templates and handy TLC and Gel Electrophoresis Plate drawing tools.

Available for: Staff and students

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Compass

Compass is where you can access content and systems you use on a regular basis from one single, online location. 

Log in for personalised timetable, course and topic information.

Available for: All students

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Dell discount offer for student purchasing. 

Enter your .edu email to receive up to 25% discount on selected products.

Available for: Students (models and offers vary each month)

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EndNote

EndNote is a bibliographic database and reference management application. It allows you to coordinate your activities and collaborate more effectively with your team. EndNote ensures that the manual work of collecting, formatting and curating research materials is reduced, and it gives you greater ease and control in coordinating with your colleagues.

Available for: Everyone

Learn more / download


FlinSafe

FlinSafe is the Work Health and Safety reporting and data management system used by Flinders University.

There are different ways to use FlinSafe according to your task, your role or the information needed.

  • The FlinSafe public portal is used to report hazards, accidents and incidents and is available to all Flinders staff, students, contractors, volunteers,visitors, work experience students, labour hire workers and others.

  • The FlinSafe application is used to find and manage health and safety data by moderators, the Work Health and Safety unit and area, division and college and portfolio management

  • The FlinSafe field trip system is used by all staff and students involved in field trips run by Flinders University.

Using FlinSafe centralises the storage of health and safety data, allowing more consistent data recording, more efficient reporting methods, better analysis and monitoring of trends and work health and safety key performance indicators.

Available for: All staff and students

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Flinders Learning Online (FLO) 

Most topics supply learning materials online via Flinders Learning Online (FLO), which can be accessed via your Flinders dashboard.

The use of FLO varies from topic to topic. Your topic coordinator should make this clear to you at the beginning of the topic. You should normally have access to your topics in FLO one week before teaching begins.

Available for: All staff and students  

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Handbook

Handbook provides up to date information on all courses and topics offered at Flinders and replaces the course rules and topic information pages for all curriculum offered in 2022 and beyond.

Available for: All staff and students

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IBM SPSS Statistics

IBM SPSS Statistics is a computer application that supports statistical analysis of data. It allows for comprehensive data access and preparation. The software has extensive capabilities in analytical reporting, graphics and statistical modelling.

Available for: All staff and students

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iEnrol

iEnrol is a web based application that supports the administration process of enrolling in professional development courses at Flinders University.

Available for: All staff and HDR students

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Inspire

Inspire is a candidature management tool for higher degree by research students, their supervisors and related support staff. You can use Inspire to submit degree management forms for recommendation, assess your research skills, plan your research training and book into available training courses.

Available for: Staff and HDR students

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InPlace

InPlace Placement Management System is an application that Flinders uses to manage Work Integrated Learning (WIL) activities or 'placements’.

Available for: Students (who have placements managed in InPlace)

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Mathematica

Wolfram Mathematica (Mathematica) is a symbolic mathematical computation program, sometimes called a computer algebra program, used in many scientific, engineering, mathematical, and computing fields. The Wolfram Language is the programming language used in Mathematica.

Available for: All staff and students

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Matlab

MATLAB is the high-level language and interactive environment used by millions of engineers and scientists worldwide. It lets you explore and visualise ideas and collaborate across disciplines including signal and image processing, communications, control systems, and computational finance.

Available for: All staff and students

Learn more

Access MATLAB portal


Microsoft Office

Current Flinders University students can obtain Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus through their Flinders account.

Office 365 ProPlus comes with a full version of Office and familiar Office applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote and more. Office 365 ProPlus is a user-based service and allows students to install on up to five PCs or Macs, and five tablets. Students will also be able use OneDrive for Business (cloud storage).

Available for: All staff and students

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NVivo

NVivo is software for qualitative research and analysis. Licenses are available for post graduate students to install on a privately owned computer. Under graduates can only access NVivo on University owned/supported computers.

Available for: All staff and students

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Okta dashboard

Okta is the new way of logging in to each of your University IT applications. It reduces the need for you to login to applications separately.

Available for: All staff and students

Learn more

Access


OneDrive

Microsoft OneDrive is an enterprise cloud-based document storage platform available to all staff and students, allowing you to:  

  • Store and access documents from any desktop/laptop computer or mobile device; and
  • Share and collaborate securely with other University staff and external users.
  • Work on group assignments by inviting other students to co-author a document.
  • Submit an assignment to FLO from your OneDrive for Business storage space.

Available for: All students

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Qualtrics

Qualtrics is an easy to use survey tool that can be used to set up questions for simple or complext data collection. Qualtrics is especially good for academic research activities and is a widely used tool across the education sector, which means it is easy to collaborate with colleagues from other institutions.

Available for: All staff and students with approval

Learn more

Request access


REDCap

REDCap is a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. While REDCap can be used to collect virtually any type of data (including 21 CFR Part 11, FISMA, and HIPAA-compliant environments), it is specifically geared to support online or offline data capture for research studies and operations. The REDCap Consortium, a vast support network of collaborators, is composed of thousands of active institutional partners in over one hundred countries who utilize and support REDCap in various ways.

Available for: All staff and students

Learn more

Request access


Remote Support

Remote Support is a product that allows our support staff to remotely connect to your computer and view, but not control your device. Support staff can annotate your screen and display symbols such as arrows to provide additional direction.

Available for: All students

Learn more


ResearchNow

ResearchNow creates a shared digital space for managing and reporting on Flinders research, including publications, collaborations, grants and projects.

Available for: All researchers

Learn more


Service One

Service One provides a single pathway for staff and students to request a service in one place, find the right service request within one minute, and complete one streamlined request for each service.

Service One directly connects staff and students who need to request a service with staff who fulfil the service request.

Available for: All staff and students

Learn more

Log in


Snagit

Snagit is an image and screen capture software that enables you to capture images and videos and easily customise your screen captures with effects, or highlight important information with Snagit’s mark-up tools.  

Download on University computers via the IDS Support Portal.

Similar to: Screenrec, Snipping Tool, Greenshot

Available for: All staff and HDR students

Request home use licence


Student Evaluation of Teaching

The Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) system enables the distribution, collation and reporting of student evaluation surveys. The primary purpose of the system is to host the surveys, which will provide staff with valid and reliable information to assist in making informed decisions about improving student learning outcomes.

Available for: All staff and students

Learn more

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Student System

The Student System is where you can:

  • view and update your personal details such as your address, citizenship and residency and cultural and disbility details
  • accept and defer your offer
  • enrol and register in classes
  • view and pay fees
  • view your timetable
  • view exam details
  • apply for scholarships
  • see topic results

Learn more

Go to the Student System


VirtualApps

VirtualApps is an application virtualisation platform that allows users to stream University applications to any devices, in any location, at any time of day. The only requirement is a compatible device connected to the internet.

Available for: All staff and students

Learn more


WebEx

WebEx is an online video and audio enabled meeting place that allows you to meet with anyone, anywhere, in real time by using a web browser on your computer or mobile device, including iPad, iPhone or Andriod.

Anyone with a compatible device can attend a meeting including external parties and students. They will just need a URL provided by the host.

Available for: All staff (hosting & participating) and students (as a participant)

Learn more

Software for your personal device

Some Flinders software licenses allow students to download and use software on your personal devices. ‘Home use licenses’ are available to all currently enrolled students.

Note:

  • The right to use “home use licences” is only available to currently enrolled students.
  • Technical support for "home use" installations on private computers is not available. 

 

Home use licenses for students

Microsoft Office 365 keyboard_arrow_up

Current Flinders University students can obtain Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus through their Flinders account.

Office 365 ProPlus comes with a full version of Office and familiar Office applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote and more. Office 365 ProPlus is a user-based service and allows students to install on up to five PCs or Macs, and five tablets. Students will also be able use OneDrive for Business (cloud storage).

Follow the steps below:

  • Log into your Flinders dashboard (Okta) 
  • Select the ‘Office 365’ button on the Okta Dashboard
  • You will be redirected to Office 365 online with an Install Office link at the top of the page. Select this and then Office 365 apps.
  • Office will being downloading on your device
  • When you open an Office application for the first time, you will need to log in. Your email address should be entered as your FAN@flinders.edu.au and you will be redirected to an Okta login window where you can enter your FAN and password

When you graduate, your Office 365 subscription through Flinders University will cease. You may enrol into other Microsoft consumer or commercial offers available.

Antivirus software keyboard_arrow_up

Security software such as anti-virus and anti-malware is an important means of ensuring computers are properly protected.

If you connect your computer to the campus network you are responsible for ensuring that you have anti-virus software installed, enabled and up to date to protect your computer and other computers on the campus network.

There are number of free anti-virus software solutions available depending on your operating system. 

Windows

Apple Mac OS X

Linux

  • Microsoft Security Essentials (Windows 7)
  • Microsoft Windows Defender - built in (10)
  • MalwareBytes(Windows 7/8/10)
  • Avast AV (Windows 7/8/10)
  • ClamXav (Apple OS X 10.6+)
  • AVG for Mac (Apple OS X 10.6+)
  • ClamAV (Versions for major distributions available)
  • Commodo Antivirus(Versions for major distributions available)

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