{"id":48,"date":"2021-01-19T18:19:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T18:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/lindseymeredith\/?p=48"},"modified":"2021-03-25T18:34:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T18:34:39","slug":"work-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/lindseymeredith\/2021\/01\/19\/work-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Work at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U of L faculty and staff can benefit from a new software package made possible by an agreement between the University of Lethbridge and Adobe Systems Inc.<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/it-services\/files\/2014\/03\/Adobe-Creative.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-641\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/it-services\/files\/2014\/03\/Adobe-Creative.jpg\" alt=\"Adobe Creative Cloud\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The enhanced Adobe Creative Cloud for education agreement provides a full suite of software, free of charge, for use at work. The agreement also offers a work-at-home package for only $11.25 per year for personal Windows and Apple computers.<\/p>\n<p>The Creative Cloud suite includes, but is not limited to Photoshop, InDesign, Adobe Edge Animate, Acrobat XI Pro, Illustrator, and a variety of other Adobe products. \u201cThe retail value of these products is enormous,\u201d says Chris Robinson, Client Services Manager. \u00a0\u201cPhotoshop alone is around $700 and up, depending on the version.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IMPORTANT: For University-owned computers, faculty and staff should contact the Solutions Centre to request installation.<\/p>\n<p>To purchase Creative Cloud for home computers, there are some important details interested buyers should know ahead of time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The work-at-home software is for personal and professional supplement purchases only, then if you have some remote staff it is a very good idea to use some monitoring software so that you can see what they are doing. We have used this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workpuls.com\/work-from-home\">working from home software<\/a>\u00a0to check on employees and it&#8217;s just brilliant as you not only see what they are doing but it also improves productivity nicely.<\/li>\n<li>To download, go to\u00a0https:\/\/www.uleth.ca\/information-technology\/store<\/li>\n<li>Click on\u00a0<strong>Take Me to the IT Store\u00a0<\/strong>button. You will be required to log in using your U of L username and password.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the<b>\u00a0Kivuto\u00a0<\/b>button.<\/li>\n<li>Click on\u00a0<b>Start Shopping<\/b>. The Adobe Creative Cloud icon can be found under the Adobe tab.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both the download and installation steps can take up to one hour each. It is recommended that the download take place on campus if home internet bandwidth is not high-speed.<\/p>\n<p>These days,\u00a0work-from-home\u00a0arrangements made necessary by the COVID-19 pandemic have made it harder and harder for professionals to maintain routines and structure. This disruption of the regular\u00a0working\u00a0experience is\u00a0causing\u00a0increased, ongoing\u00a0stress\u00a0for many that are now\u00a0working from home, experts recommend to use the CBD and THC products you can find at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/best-delta-8-carts\/\">Laweekly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best options are to either bring their laptop onto campus to download the software, and then proceed with the installation at home or, if they have a desktop computer at home, download it onto their work computer and copy the installation file onto a 32GB USB key that has a minimum of 16GBs of free space,\u201d says Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>I came across an interesting blog a few months back, and saved the link, thinking it would turn into a great blog post. Little did I know, it would not only turn into a (hopefully) great blog post, but it also served as an anchor when I hit my own mini-crisis. 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