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Software Licenses for Students
ESRI, Inc. offers a 1-year license for students of universities with a site-wide license (FIU has a site-wide license). The use of this software is limited to educational purposes, and no commercial use is allowed. Please contact us at (305)348-0150 or via email at gisrs@fiu.edu to get a copy of the software (one copy and activation code per student).
IMPORTANT: You will need to activate the authorization code using your ESRI Global Account before it can be used.
Before you install ArcGIS for Desktop
- Check our system requirements to make sure your computer has the hardware and software required for the trial.
- The software cannot be installed on a computer that has a previous version of ArcGIS Desktop or ArcGIS Server installed; if necessary, uninstall previous versions of ArcGIS Desktop or Server. It’s OK if the computer has ArcGIS Explorer installed.
- Install an image (ISO) extractor program such as 7-Zip.
- Activate your authorization code
- Visit www.esri.com/EducationEdition and choose “I have an ArcGIS Education Edition authorization code”
- Log in using your Esri Global Account, or create a new account, if necessary.
- Enter the authorization code and click submit
- Install and authorize the ArcGIS for Desktop software
- If you are installing from an ISO image, unzip the ArcGIS for Desktop ISO using 7-Zip. In other words, click on the link provided above, and “Save File”. Then, extract using an extractor program such as 7-Zip, or WinZip.
- Run Setup.exe (or ESRI.exe) to install ArcGIS for Desktop
- The Authorization Wizard will prompt you for a product to authorize; select “ArcGIS Desktop – ArcInfo (Single Use)”
- The Authorization Wizard will prompt you for an authorization code; enter your activated code.
Support for the ArcGIS Desktop Education Edition is available at esri.com/evalhelp.