Currently, Missouri State University has a small pool of SPSS licenses for "At-Home" usage of the software. These licenses are given out on a first come, first served basis.
Usage
This guide is for Faculty/Staff/Employees trying to download "At-Home" SPSS licenses for personal machines only. At-Home licenses are for personal machines where the software is being used for creating Teaching/Academic Coursework, or to assist with research that will be freely published in an academic journal. Qualifying faculty/staff/employees members can submit an SPSS License Request.
University-owned machines do not qualify for the “At-Home” license codes.
If it is a university-owned machine, the user should put in a TeamDynamix ticket to appropriate support staff for their college/area (DUSS, for academic area faculty/staff; the Service Desk for administrative areas). The support personnel will install the software from MEMCM and then authorize it as a concurrent license that points to our SPSS licensing server.
Students seeking to complete academic coursework should click here to get a copy of SPSS.
Alternatives to SPSS
If you do not qualify for SPSS, or cannot run it on your machine, we recommend using one of the following free software:
JASP or
R-Studio.
Step-by-Step Guide
After you have submitted an SPSS request and have been given access to the SPSS download, you will need to download the correct version per the Operating System that you are using. "At-Home" SPSS versions come in two flavors: SPSS for Mac, and SPSS for Windows.
- Choose the link for the appropriate version of the Operating System you are running once you have received the confirmation email for your request. The link will open in your default browser.
- Type in your BearPass ID and password into the prompt, and hit Log In.
- See the instructions in the following sections to begin the installation once the download is complete. Depending on your current desktop settings, your SPSS installation files will most likely be saved automatically under your Downloads folder on either Mac or Windows.
Once the SPSS media has been downloaded, you will need to unpack the items in the downloaded .ZIP file, and then begin the installation.
- Locate the downloaded .ZIP file, as referenced in Downloading SPSS above.
- Right-click on the downloaded .ZIP file and choose Extract All from the menu.
- Choose the location where you want to unpack the .ZIP contents. The location will default to the same folder that the media was first downloaded to. Then click Extract.
- Open the newly created folder after the media has finished unpacking, locate IBM SPSS Statistics (version).exe and double-click. This will begin the installation.
- Select Authorized user license and click Next on the first dialogue page.
- Accept the first license agreement and click Next.
- Enter your User name and Organization, then click Next.
- Choose any language versions that you want to install (English is default and not optional), and click Next.
- Click Yes if you are a JAWS user to install and setup screen reading. Otherwise choose No, and then click Next.
- Select Yes if you want to install the Essentials for Python redistributable, otherwise select No and click Next.
- Accept the license agreement if you selected to install Python on the previous step.
- Accept the second SPSS license agreement and click Next.
- Click Change to change the install location of SPSS, or accept the default install location, and click Next.
- Click Install to install SPSS.
- Upon installation, you will receive notice that the install is complete, and then another notice stating that a reboot is required.
- Open the downloaded installer package from Downloading SPSS steps above.
- Double-click SPSS_Statistics_Installer.
- Click Open at the security warning telling you it's a program downloaded from the internet.
- Authenticate the install by signing in with your computer's administrator credentials.
- Select your language, and click OK.
- Click Next.
- Choose Authorized user license and click Next.
- Accept the Software License Agreement and click Next.
- Enter Your Name for the User Name and Missouri State University for the Organization. Click Next.
- Select any additional languages you might need for the Help menu and click Next.
- Select No for installing Essential for Python and click Next.
- Choose your install location or simply use the Default and click Next.
- Click Install at the summary screen.
- Click Done.
Please Note: Once SPSS is installed, you must complete the following steps to update the SPSS license.
- Open the Start menu (Windows) or Applications folder (Mac) after installation and a reboot, and search for IBM SPSS Statistics (Version) License Authorization Wizard. The Application Wizard can also be found by clicking LAW.exe in the SPSS installation folder.
- Click on the authorization wizard listing, and the following screen will open. Click Next.
- Choose License my product now, and click Next.
- Enter the Authorization Code as provided by Student Computing via email, and then click Next.
- Click Next after the authorization wizard contacts IBM to associate the given Authorization Code with your computer.
- Click Finish when you see a notice stating that the license has been applied. You can now start the main SPSS program from the Start menu.
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