The UofL community has access to all online Office 365 suite of products (sign in using your UofL userID email address) plus downloads on up to 5 devices. Adobe Creative Cloud (sign in using your UofL userID email address) for active employees and registered students. Plus, you can request a CardBox account for unlimited collaboration and online storage. For more info on software, see our dedicated page.

Additionally, our online software hub has free and discounted specialized software for students and employees.

UofL's license to MATLAB and Simulink includes access to software, tools and online learning resources. Faculty, staff and students can analyze data, create visual mathematical models, sun simulations and much more.

Access and support is available on UofL's MATLAB gateway.

Everyone in the UofL community has access to the online O365 suit of products. Just signing in to your UofL Outlook email via outlook.office.com allows free access to the O365 system on up to 5 devices. Look to the upper left 3x3 dot favicon, click to see available products for download.

All employees are eligible to use Adobe Sign. You do not need an Adobe Sign account to sign documents. If you have an active UofL email address and password for the Office365 system, you may request an Adobe Sign account using the account request form in order to send and create documents for signature.

Online signatures, electronic signatures, or e-signatures refer to any electronic process that indicates acceptance of an agreement or a record. The term "digital signature" is frequently used to refer to one specific type of electronic signature.

Typical e-signature solutions use common electronic authentication methods to verify signer identity such as an email address, a corporate ID, or a phone PIN.

Multifactor authentication is used when increased security is needed. The best e-signature solutions demonstrate proof of signing using a secure process that includes an audit trail along with the final document.

Digital signatures use a specific type of electronic signature. They use a certificate-based digital ID to authenticate signer identity and demonstrate proof of signing by binding each signature to the document with encryption. Validation is done through trusted certificate authorities or trusted serived providers. Additional rules and approvals are required prior to adopting true digital signatures.

Yes, Adobe takes the security of your digital signing experiences very seriously. Adobe Sign is certified compliant with the world's most rigorous security standards, such as ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, and PCI DSS used in the payment card industry. It complies with a wide range of privacy regulations including HIPPA, GLBA, and FERPA in the U.S.

Adobe Sign also employs Adobe Secure Product Lifecycle (SPLC) practices, a demanding set of over 1,000 specific security activities spanning software development practices, processes and tools, and integrated into multiple stages of the product lifecycle.

Adobe Sign is FDS compliant and Validated to be compliant with 21 CFR Part 11 when using the approved procedures, enabling researchers to use it for e-signatures on all research records required for FDA-regulated research. Adobe Sign is not approved for PHI (protected health information) but is expected to be in the future.

Yes, electronic signatures are legally valid and enforceable in nearly every industrialized country around the world, and even less-developed countries are beginning to enact e-signature laws. In 2000, the United States passed the ESIGN Act, making e-signatures legally for virtually all uses. In the European Union, the Electronic Identification and Trust Services Regulation (eIDAS) took effect in July 2016. Other countries have enacted similar laws as well. To learn more, visit Adobe's e-signature legality page.

All enrolled students and all employees now have access to Adobe Creative Cloud. If you have an active UofL email address and password for the Office 365 system, your email address is your username and your password is the same.

If you already have a Persona Account with Adobe for Creative Cloud, signing up for this one will start a separate UofL (Company or School) account.

If you are paying on or have paid for another license, you can decide whether or not to continue with your personal account. However, once you stop payment on a Personal Account, your data/files connected to that account will not be accessible. It is highly recommended that anyone with a personal account and with files stored on the Adobe Cloud back-up all of their files stored on the Adobe Cloud back-up all of their files on a local drive (or a cloud location like CardBox or OneDrive) before switching their accounts. This includes any Behance or Portfolio sites and Spark pages.

Adobe does not provide refunds for overlapping service or discontinues accounts.

Planning ahead for graduation or leaving is required. Your Adobe account is directly connected to your status at UofL so all data/files connected to your UofL account will not be accessible once you are no longer a student or employee.

It is highly recommended that you back-up all of the data/files/fonts/pages stored on your Adobe Cloud on a local drive (or a cloud location) prior to leaving. This includes any Behance or Portfolio sites and Spark pages.

Another option would be to follow Adobe's directions for migrating your assets (files, data, etc. ) to an Adobe Creative Cloud Personal Account. This action requires you to set up and pay for an account serperately.

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