The OnTheHub Web Store is an independent retailer Dawson College partners with to provide software purchases, such Adobe Creative Cloud, for faculty, staff, and registered students (excluding non-credit students) on their personally-owned machines. Product selection is determined by agreements between Dawson College and its software providers, or OnTheHub and its software partners. To sign into […]

Standard machines come with Windows 7 and Microsoft Office (Pro) 2013. More software, mostly open source, is available in the Sandbox (shortcut on the desktop) : VLC, Gimp, OpenOffice, etc. There are also applications for Accessibility executed remotely from a terminal server (shortcut on the destkop in labs). You can find more software to install […]

You may create shortcuts to SharePoint which will then be available from File Explorer or within applications. Network location To add a network location, right-click inside the Computer window, choose ‘Add a network location’ and follow instructions. The location is the URL of a SharePoint site or library. For example: https://sp.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/ https://sp.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/Policies https://sp.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/managers Map Network […]

SharePoint is the College document collaboration platform, hosted on the College servers. There are departmental sites, as well college-wide libraries such as policies, memos (all-dawson), etc. SharePoint can be accessed in a variety of ways: through a Web browser, File Explorer, Outlook or an iPad. To set up new sites or libraries, please contact Ekaterine […]

The icon below on your desktop points to a network folder (/software/sandbox) which contains various applications that you can run without needing to install on your computer: These applications may be copied to your local drive, or USB key for offline use. Launch menu Because some packages may include more than one application, a menu […]

  Introduction Read & Write is a user friendly toolbar that makes the web, documents and files more accessible and assists with everyday tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work. Installing Read & Write Check your home computer meets the following minimum requirements before installing the application. […]

Office 365 ProPlus is a version of Office that, thanks to our contract with Microsoft, the College employees and students can use at home or on their personal device. What it includes For PCs and Macs, full versions of Office 2016: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, Skype for Business. For iOS and Android tablets, Word, […]

Harmon.ie is an Outlook Add-In that provides easy, full-featured access to SharePoint content, e.g. to save an email message or its attachment to SharePoint. It may be installed from the Application Catalog. If you don’t see ‘Install/Upgrade Harmon.ie’ in the Available Software, contact the Helpdesk. Configuration The installation adds a side-bar to your Outlook window. […]

The Application Catalog is an inventory of applications that users can install by themselves. It can be found at https://appcatalog.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/. Some of these, for example Harmon.ie and Antidote may not appear on your list if you have not been granted a license yet. Contact the helpdesk.

In addition to various Accessibility software available in the dedicated labs, two applications may be executed remotely from anywhere in the College: Antidote French and Read & Write Gold. In labs, they can be accessed via the desktop shortcut: If the shortcut does not appear, or from an office machine, just browse to https://dc343.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/RDWeb. Normally […]