Software

Protect your programs, files, and email from malicious software such as malware and viruses.

UMass offers two email services: Gmail, used by students and certain faculty and staff members, and Microsoft Outlook, used by most UMass Amherst faculty and staff. 

Canvas is UMass Amherst's official Learning Management System (LMS).

Moodle - Moodle is no longer available for teaching after the Spring 2025 semester, with students losing access on June 9th, and instructors losing access on July 1st.

Microsoft offers software powering database management, desktop publishing, email and calendar, operating systems, presentations, spreadsheets, word processing and more. 

*Please note the Microsoft Defined Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) courses. 

UMass Amherst students, faculty, and staff can use an enterprise version of Canva at no cost to make social media graphics, presentations, videos, and more.
Get started quickly with templates and graphic assets, and stay on-brand with the University Brand Kit.

Foxit PDF Editor is UMass Amherst's official PDF editing application. Along with the faster, more deployable and secure interface, Foxit works with existing PDFs and offers seamless integration with Microsoft and Azure services, ensuring that user data remains safe and secure.

Adobe Creative Cloud offers photo editing, desktop publishing, video production, and web design and development tools including Illustrator, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro.

For mixed-method and qualitative research, UMass offers the following software:

UMass offers multiple software for data manipulation, management and analysis, surveying, technical computing and more.