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    Digital Store launches

    Vanier Students and Employees can now purchase software at much-reduced educational rates, including landmark suites such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Cloud, SPSS Statistics, EndNote reference manager, virtual machine software from Parallels and VMware, and more. Vanier IT Support Services is pleased to unveil this Digital Store, available at store.vaniercollege.qc.ca which provides these reduced-cost titles to the Vanier community as a service, ensuring that all at Vanier have access to the latest and most efficient software at home in addition to what they have on campus.

    Improve Display on Dell Optiplex 9020

    If you’re using one of the new Dell Optiplex 9020 (or similar Dell All-in-One), you can make some quick adjustments to the display to make your screen provide more accurate colours, while reducing the glare of the display.

    Autodesk for Education

    Autodesk, the renowned publishers of technical software such as AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, Inventor, and many more, makes available their software for free for educational use. Vanier ITSS is pleased to promote this to students and employees who are using or are interested in exploring their industry-standard applications.

    Non-Credit Student (Mia) Vanier Login

    If you’re a student in a non-credit class, whereby you utilize Mia instead of Omnivox, your login process for Vanier resources (such as printers, computers, and the WiFi) is now different. You must login using “m” followed by your student ID number for your username, and “van” followed by your birthday mmddyy.

    e.g.: Username: m1234567; Password: van121368 for December 13, 1968.

    Office 365 for Students

    Vanier IT Support Services is very pleased to unveil a new cornerstone offering, taking advantage of our campus licensing with Microsoft to provide the Office 365 service to all students. As part of this, students will be able to download and install Microsoft Office for Windows, Mac, or iPad for free, in addition to gaining 1TB of cloud storage on Microsoft’s OneDrive, accessible from any mobile or desktop device. Most notably however, students will now have their own Vanier College email address, formatted as their student number @edu.vaniercollege.qc.ca. This will allow them not-only 50 GB of email storage, but a education-standard email service, linked to their educational institution, which can then be utilized on other services to leverage the frequent discounts and services available exclusively for students – ranging from software to services, such as the New York Times subscription at half-price.

    Vanier Map gets better!

    The Vanier interactive map which launched at the beginning of the Fall 2014 semester has gotten even better with its first major update. We’ve heard the suggestions from the Vanier Community, and have eagerly implemented some of them into the map. We are making every effort to grow this interactive map to meet the needs of new and current students alike, as well as the entire Vanier community, who, in the first week of classes alone used the interactive map over 1000 times.

    FAQ for Omnivox Finance & Purchasing System

    Vanier’s Finance Department has come up with a list of questions and answers for members of the community designed to help you navigate through the Clara/Omnivox Finance and Purchasing System.
    Should you require any additional information you can send an e-mail to accounting@vaniercollege.qc.ca