The School of Computer Science has subscriptions to Microsoft and Visual Pardigm Academic Partner Program. These subscriptions provide free or heavily discounted software to students taking courses delivered by the college. This software is distributed through online portals. Other software such as VMware Workstation Pro and Cloud based services are often available for free or free credit for University students. Additionally the School has the facility to offer hosted websites, databases, apps, virtualised and docker environments. Please contact the technical team for further info support@cs.universityofgalway.ie  

All student of the School of Computer Science will receive, or may already have received, e-mails from portals indicating that an account has been created for you on these online stores. Follow any instructions in the email to access you account.

Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching 

 https://azureforeducation.microsoft.com/devtools

VMWare Products 

Run Windows, Linux and other virtual machines with VMware Workstation Pro for Windows and Linux or VMware Fusion for Mac, the industry standard desktop hypervisors. Both are now available for free for personal use.  https://www.vmware.com/products/desktop-hypervisor/workstation-and-fusion 

For Cloud based Products and Services 

Azure / AWS Educate / Google Cloud / Google Firebase

If you have any issues with this facility then please email the technical staff in the School support@cs.universityofgalway.ie 


National University of Ireland Galway is provided with the use of VP for educational purpose by the Academic Partner Program from Visual Paradigm.