Software Provision

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