The Google suite: free and available on most internet enabled devices
Docs - Equivalent to Word
Slides - Equivalent to Powerpoint
Sheets - Equivalent to excel
Forms - an app that connect to sheets easily, used for collecting data, questionnaires.
Sites - A method for making simple easy to construct websites within our domain.
Drive - google drive - our cloud based storage center that makes accessing document at home easy.
News - An app that collects news from the internet based on shown interests.
Classroom - this interface helps us manage tasks and lessons, links to drive and parents can get notification emailed to them.
On College based devices:
The Adobe creative cloud suite.
Logic
Final cut pro
Maya
Inventor
Free software that students can get and works well!
Image manipulation:
Gimp - raster /photo editing online or installed. https://www.gimp.org/
Inkscape - Vector/logo and illustration - https://inkscape.org/en/
Rawtherapee - photo management and RAW photo editor - http://rawtherapee.com/
Non linear video editors:
Davinchi Resolve 12.5 - by black magic (like final cut pro) free for students.
Fusion - like after effects but node based (nuke is better but this has some great features.
Nuke - like after effects but SOOO much more! Advanced users will love this.
3D animation/ 3D modelling
Autodesk - this has Maya, mudbox, inventor, autodesk, 3ds max and loads more. All free for students, when you sign up it will ask for the college URL (website address).
Vectorworks - http://www.vectorworks.net/ this is used to produce models in production technology, students can request full licence.
Substance Painter - https://www.allegorithmic.com/education - plugs into Maya, professional level procedural texturing.
Desktop Publishing:
Scribus - https://www.scribus.net/
For Media and Graphic Design students a subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud is a worthy investment, we have no way we can make a licenced purchase of this for students to use off site. LINK