Software licensing

Learning and Teaching Scotland has negotiated agreements with a number of leading software publishers, including Microsoft, Apple and Adobe, to sell their products through software licensing schemes. These are unique to Scottish education and can help you make substantial savings.

Benefits of licensing schemes

There are a wide range of benefits to be had from purchasing under these schemes, including:

• educational software at considerably reduced prices
• no minimum quantity required in order to purchase
• flexibility to purchase additional licences as and when required by you
• opportunity to purchase licences and not having to purchase excess numbers of CD-ROMs and manuals
• gives you the opportunity to purchase replacement media when it is lost in the school - yes, it does happen!

Given the range of licensing schemes and different publishers, software licensing can become confusing. All of the schemes operate in a different way and each can have a different 'set of rules' that must be followed. For example, a school may be able to purchase software under one scheme whereas the local authority education department may have to purchase under a different scheme. You may want to purchase for use at home and you can with some schemes but not with others.

Contact us

Help is always at hand and LTS has highly trained and helpful staff who can help you with licensing issues. You can contact Customer Services on 08700 100 297 on Monday to Friday 08.30 to 17.00.