Tools, software and services
Access a range of digital tools to support your studies and work, including software, equipment and specialist support.
Featured tools
Accessible tools
Find out about our accessible facilities and assistive technology.
Equipment
Borrow and purchase equipment, including laptops, headsets and audio-visual kit.
Research computing
Enhance your research with high-performance computing and specialist facilities.
Training and skills
Learn new tools and harness technology with training courses, workshops and skills guides.
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- Accessibility
- Account
- Active Directory
- Agresso Finance
- Anti-virus software
- Apple Macs: students
- Applications
- Application deployment
- Application development
- Application training
- Associates Database
- Audio streaming
- Authorised Systems Registration tool
- Backups
- Bare-metal virtualisation
- Bomgar
- Business analysis - see Project management and business analysis
- Business Objects Reporting
- Buying computer equipment
- Calendar
- Campus Firewall
- Chat service: Slack
- China Connect
- Code version control
- ColdFusion
- Computer classrooms and study areas
- Connect on campus
- Contacts
- Courses
- cPanel Website Hosting
- Custom Groups Tool
- Database services
- Data centre hosting
- Data Warehouse (DWH)
- Departmental Computing Officers (DCOs)
- Deposit Service
- Digital skills framework for staff
- DocuSign: eSignatures
- Domain Name System (DNS)
- Doodle (event scheduling tool)
- DropOff Service
- Duo two-factor authentication
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- eduroam
- Email submission and relaying
- End-to-End IT (Staff only - york.ac.uk)
- Event scheduling (Doodle)
- e:Vision
- External network partnerships
- Facilities Management network
- Fault reporting
- Feedback
- File transfer
- Files and storage (Filestore)
- Firewall
- Formstack (online forms)
- FTP
- Games consoles
- Google Workspace
- Hardware support:
- Headsets
- Identity Federation (Shibboleth) - see single sign-on
- Incident reporting
- Information security
- Information and business systems
- Instant messaging
- Integrations (systems)
- IT accounts
- IT policies, regulations and guidelines
- IT security
- IT support
- IT training and skills
- JANET
- Keynotes
- Knowledge Base
- Kronos Time and Attendance
- LAN Database
- Laptop and PC repair service
- Laptops for staff
- Laptop loans
- LDAP
- Library and IT Help Desk
- Licence codes
- Linux
- Linux desktop: staff
- Linux desktop: students
- Linux server hosting
- Mac desktop: students
- Machine registration
- Mailjet
- Maintenance contracts
- Managed hardware service: classroom PCs
- Managed hardware service: staff devices
- Meeting scheduling (Doodle)
- MetaCompliance
- Men and Mice
- Microsoft 365 (formerly Office)
- Microsoft SQL database service
- Microsoft Teams
- Mobile devices
- Moves and changes
- My IT Account
- MySQL database service
- Network: description of the campus network
- Network connection - external partnerships
- Network connection - wired
- New users
- News
- Off campus users
- Office PCs
- OneDrive
- Oracle database service
- OS X desktop
- Overleaf
- OxMetrics
- Password change
- PC and laptop repair service
- Penetration testing
- People Database
- People Database Administrators
- Personal web space
- Photocopying
- PostgreSQL database service
- Print, copy and scan
- Project management and business analysis
- Prospective students
- Purchasing computer equipment
- Qualtrics survey tool
- Quota (filestore)
- Register new account
- Remote access - VPN
- Remote desktop
- Remote support tool: Bomgar
- Rented filestore
- Repairs: classroom PCs
- Repairs: personal laptops
- Repairs: staff hardware
- Research computing
- Restoring files from backup
- Revision control
- Room bookings (Planon)
- Salesforce
- Scanning
- SCP
- Security
- Security testing
- Server hosting - Windows, Linux or bare-metal
- Service status
- SFTP
- Single sign-on
- SITS student records
- Slack
- Software
- Software deployment
- Software development
- Software training
- Source control
- SSH service
- SSL certificates
- Staff list
- Streaming service
- Student Enquiry Screen (SES)
- Survey tool (Qualtrics)
- System integration
- Systems security review
- Unified Communications and telephony
- University information systems
- Unsupported machines
- Vault
- Virtual Desktop Service (VDS)
- Version control
- Video streaming
- Viking computing cluster
- Virtual server hosting - Windows, Linux or bare-metal
- Virus and malware protection
- Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
- Virtual Private Network (VPN)
- Web authoring and development
- Web page access control tool
- Web space (personal)
- Webcams
- Webfiles
- Wifi
- Windows desktop: staff
- Windows desktop: students
- Windows server hosting
- Wired network: Facilities Management devices
- Wired network: staff
- Wired network: students
- Working from home
- Worktribe (research grants management system)
- York wiki service
- Yorkshare
- Zoom (video conferencing)