NOTE: END OF LIFE COMING AUGUST 2025

We regret to inform you that Broadcom has unilaterally made the decision to initiate the end-of-life process for the VMware IT Academy and Academic Software Licensing programs effective August 15, 2024. As a result, customers will no longer be able to purchase new subscriptions in the VMware IT Academy store after 5:00pm E.T. on August 15, 2024. We understand that the IT Academy has been a reliable resource for many years, and we are disappointed to be delivering this message.

ACTIONS REQUIRED

If your current subscription has already expired or is due to expire before August 31, 2025, and you would like to extend your access until August 2025, we urge your institution to purchase a new subscription prior to 5:00pm E.T. on August 15, 2024.
Institution administrators must allocate subscription seats to students and instructors before 00:00am E.T. on August 31, 2024.
Institution administrators, instructors, and students must request all outstanding/unused software license keys (which are included in subscriptions purchased up to August 15) before 00:00am E.T. on August 31, 2024.

Instructors must allocate all outstanding/unused Pearson certification vouchers (which are included in subscriptions purchased up to August 15) before 00:00am E.T. on September 30, 2024.
We will continue to provide the services that you have already purchased. Customers with an active subscription will continue to have access to VMware IT Academy learning materials and resources through D2L Brightspace until their subscription expires (365 days after the subscription purchase date). Software license keys and Pearson certification vouchers will expire on the dates documented in the emails students and instructors received when they were allocated to them. The processes and support around these services will remain in place for the duration of your subscription. 

If you require additional software license keys after August 31, 2024, or will not be able to redeem your subscription seats, allocate software license keys, or allocate Pearson certification vouchers prior to the cut-off dates indicated above, please contact ECS CIT for additional assistance. 

We appreciate your understanding through this change and thank you for being a valued part of the IT Academy community.

Sincerely, 
The VMware IT Academy Team

UNTIL AUGUST 2025

There are three steps in this process. To obtain access, you must:

Your Professor Must Request Access On Your Behalf

Complete Registration Process

Obtain Software Products & Licensing Keys

All steps are detailed below.

Your Professor Must Request Access On Your Behalf

Select classes offer a ONE YEAR license to select VMWare Software via VMware IT Academy Program / D2L Brightspace. (This program was formerly known as MS Imagine Fusion or OnTheHub.) Since enrollment in a specific class grants access to this software, in order to be enrolled in this program, please have the professor of your course make an enrollment request on your behalf through ecscit@syr.edu.

After enrollment, you will need to complete the steps detailed below:

Complete Registration Process

Obtain Software Products & Licensing Keys

Complete Registration Process

Once ECS CIT activates your account, you will receive an email requesting that you complete the registration process.

Enter the data requested

Click "Create Account"

YOU MAY NEED TO LOG OUT, AND LOG BACK IN AGAIN TO HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR NEW PRIVILEGES

Obtain Software Products & Licensing Keys

NOTE: INSTRUCTIONS TO DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE WILL COME WITH YOUR REGISTRATION KEY!!!

Login to https://itacademy.brightspace.com/d2l/login with the account created in the previous step

Exit out of the Introduction pop up

Click "Software Products & License Keys"

In the  bottom of the "Direct Links for Software Download" square, click "To request software license keys click here."

Choose your desired software

Click the button REQUEST

You should receive the following message