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What systems and tools have you used for managing your university's Trimble software licenses? 

Here at The Ohio State University we are still in the process of setting things up so we are still discovering things we did not understand or were not prepared for. I'm wondering on behalf of the OSU IT folks what other TTLs are doing when it comes to providing access to software for students? Are other TTLs giving students Trimble IDs and attaching those Trimble IDs to subscription packs, or are the Trimble IDs generic and shared among students that need access for the class or project that they are in? 

Any advice that others have about managing student access to the subscriptions would be very helpful. We can still modify our approach since we do not have one yet. 

What systems and tools have you used for managing your university's Trimble software licenses? 

Here at The Ohio State University we are still in the process of setting things up so we are still discovering things we did not understand or were not prepared for. I'm wondering on behalf of the OSU IT folks what other TTLs are doing when it comes to providing access to software for students? Are other TTLs giving students Trimble IDs and attaching those Trimble IDs to subscription packs, or are the Trimble IDs generic and shared among students that need access for the class or project that they are in? 

Any advice that others have about managing student access to the subscriptions would be very helpful. We can still modify our approach since we do not have one yet. 

What systems and tools have you used for managing your university's Trimble software licenses? 

Hi Ben,

At the University of Auckland we've integrated our campus single-sign-on with the Trimble ID system, so students don't require a separate username/password... entering their university email into any Trimble login page bumps them to our university login page for authentication.

As for connecting the IDs to software licenses, it depends on which software package we're talking about. SketchUp Pro, for example, uses a pool license, so a student logging in is granted a license from the university-hosted license pool, which is then returned to the pool when the student logs out (or it times out). 

For software packages that use Named User licenses, e.g., SketchUp Studio Bundle, our IT team manages the assignment of licenses to the students based on staff requests (as in, if a single class needs the software, they will send a list of students to IT to have the licenses assigned to those students). We had a conversation a while ago with Trimble about improving that license management portal (bulk assignment works, but bulk removal of licenses wasn't available), but it stalled a bit. Need to pick that one up again.

Finally, we do have some generic Trimble logins being used by a research lab for their set of Trimble devices (TDC600s). So we do use that use case, but only sparingly (our IT department doesn't like having logins not connected to individuals).

Happy to talk about it more if you want to hop on a call sometime.

Cheers,

Mark

mark.jeunnette@auckland.ac.nz

Here at The Ohio State University we are still in the process of setting things up so we are still discovering things we did not understand or were not prepared for. I'm wondering on behalf of the OSU IT folks what other TTLs are doing when it comes to providing access to software for students? Are other TTLs giving students Trimble IDs and attaching those Trimble IDs to subscription packs, or are the Trimble IDs generic and shared among students that need access for the class or project that they are in? 

Any advice that others have about managing student access to the subscriptions would be very helpful. We can still modify our approach since we do not have one yet. 

What systems and tools have you used for managing your university's Trimble software licenses? 

Hi Ben,

At the University of Auckland we've integrated our campus single-sign-on with the Trimble ID system, so students don't require a separate username/password... entering their university email into any Trimble login page bumps them to our university login page for authentication.

As for connecting the IDs to software licenses, it depends on which software package we're talking about. SketchUp Pro, for example, uses a pool license, so a student logging in is granted a license from the university-hosted license pool, which is then returned to the pool when the student logs out (or it times out). 

For software packages that use Named User licenses, e.g., SketchUp Studio Bundle, our IT team manages the assignment of licenses to the students based on staff requests (as in, if a single class needs the software, they will send a list of students to IT to have the licenses assigned to those students). We had a conversation a while ago with Trimble about improving that license management portal (bulk assignment works, but bulk removal of licenses wasn't available), but it stalled a bit. Need to pick that one up again.

Finally, we do have some generic Trimble logins being used by a research lab for their set of Trimble devices (TDC600s). So we do use that use case, but only sparingly (our IT department doesn't like having logins not connected to individuals).

Happy to talk about it more if you want to hop on a call sometime.

Cheers,

Mark

mark.jeunnette@auckland.ac.nz

Here at The Ohio State University we are still in the process of setting things up so we are still discovering things we did not understand or were not prepared for. I'm wondering on behalf of the OSU IT folks what other TTLs are doing when it comes to providing access to software for students? Are other TTLs giving students Trimble IDs and attaching those Trimble IDs to subscription packs, or are the Trimble IDs generic and shared among students that need access for the class or project that they are in? 

Any advice that others have about managing student access to the subscriptions would be very helpful. We can still modify our approach since we do not have one yet. 

What systems and tools have you used for managing your university's Trimble software licenses? 

G'day Mark,

We are about to commence our TTL. We are looking at using a similar set up. Some network licenses for labs, SSO for geospatial students and some researchers. I would support the ability to bulk remove licenses. Our IT is also apposed to device accounts. Is it possible for the TDC6's to work on SSO?

Any advice about setting up the SSO's would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Rob Keane

Hi Ben,

At the University of Auckland we've integrated our campus single-sign-on with the Trimble ID system, so students don't require a separate username/password... entering their university email into any Trimble login page bumps them to our university login page for authentication.

As for connecting the IDs to software licenses, it depends on which software package we're talking about. SketchUp Pro, for example, uses a pool license, so a student logging in is granted a license from the university-hosted license pool, which is then returned to the pool when the student logs out (or it times out). 

For software packages that use Named User licenses, e.g., SketchUp Studio Bundle, our IT team manages the assignment of licenses to the students based on staff requests (as in, if a single class needs the software, they will send a list of students to IT to have the licenses assigned to those students). We had a conversation a while ago with Trimble about improving that license management portal (bulk assignment works, but bulk removal of licenses wasn't available), but it stalled a bit. Need to pick that one up again.

Finally, we do have some generic Trimble logins being used by a research lab for their set of Trimble devices (TDC600s). So we do use that use case, but only sparingly (our IT department doesn't like having logins not connected to individuals).

Happy to talk about it more if you want to hop on a call sometime.

Cheers,

Mark

mark.jeunnette@auckland.ac.nz

Here at The Ohio State University we are still in the process of setting things up so we are still discovering things we did not understand or were not prepared for. I'm wondering on behalf of the OSU IT folks what other TTLs are doing when it comes to providing access to software for students? Are other TTLs giving students Trimble IDs and attaching those Trimble IDs to subscription packs, or are the Trimble IDs generic and shared among students that need access for the class or project that they are in? 

Any advice that others have about managing student access to the subscriptions would be very helpful. We can still modify our approach since we do not have one yet. 

What systems and tools have you used for managing your university's Trimble software licenses?