Dreamspark Programs
The CIS Department has agreements with both Microsoft and VMWare to provide our students with their software free of charge.
Microsoft Dreamspark
Our licensing with Microsoft allows us to give students software and licenses to install software on their own computers. Software may be obtained from the MSDN Academic Alliance Software Center. At the beginning of each semester, we update the online database with a list of all students currently enrolled in a CIS class. When we do this, you will receive an email from the DreamSpark Premium Webstore which contains a link that you will need to click to activate your account and set a password for it. Zimbra mail will sometimes flag this as spam, so if you don't see it in your Inbox, please check in your Spam/Junk folders to see if it is filtered there.
If your account is currently active or previously added but you never activated it, you will not receive an email. If you previously had an account that had been deactivated (accounts are deactivated automatically after one year from their creation), you will receive an email saying your account has been reactivated. If you don't remember your password in either of these cases, click on the "Forgot you password?" link on the site login page. Your username will always be <your_eid>@ksu.edu.
Once your account is confirmed, you can login to the webstore any time at the following URL:
You are free to download any software available on this site. You must use MS Internet Explorer to download software from E-Academy. Software available from E-Academy includes development tools and suites, operating systems, and some MS Office component applications, but not the Office suite or core applications such as Word, Excel, or Powerpoint. If you would like your own copy of the Office quite, you may purchase it from the Union Computer Store at a student discounted priced.
Remember, this is for you own personal use as a CIS student. You are not legally permitted to download software for your friends or families. Doing so will break the terms of the MSDNAA agreement. Distributing illegal copies of software is against state and federal laws and the policies of this university.
Your initial password is automatically generated when your account is added. You should change it as soon as possible by clicking on the "Your Account" link at the top of the page once you login.
VMWare Dreamspark
Our licensing with VMWare, via the VMware Academic Program, allows us to give students software and licenses to install software on their own computers, for a period of 12 months at a time. Software may be obtained from the VMWare webstore. At the beginning of each semester, we update the online database with a list of all students currently enrolled in a CIS class. When we do this, you will receive an email from "Kansas State University, Manhattan - Computing and Info. Sciences" which contains a link that you will need to click to activate your account and set a password for it. Zimbra mail will sometimes flag this as spam, so if you don't see it in your Inbox, please check in your Spam/Junk folders to see if it is filtered there.
If your account is currently active, or was previously added but you never activated it, you will not receive an email. If you previously had an account that had been deactivated (accounts are deactivated automatically after one year from their creation), you will receive an email saying your account has been reactivated. If you don't remember your password in either of these cases, click on the "Forgot you password?" link on the site login page. Your username will always be <your_eid>@ksu.edu.
Once your account is confirmed, you can login to the webstore any time at the following URL:
You are free to download any software available on this site. Software available for students from the VMware Academic Program includes desktop applications, such as Fusion (for Mac OS), Workstation (for Linux and Windows), and Player (for all platforms). You can also get a discount code for enrollment in the VMWare Certified Professional program. Software for faculty includes all of these plus vSphere and vCenter products, as well as ESXi and ESX.
Remember, this is for you own personal use as a CIS student. You are not legally permitted to download software for your friends or families. Doing so will break the terms of the agreement. Distributing illegal copies of software is against state and federal laws and the policies of this university.