Student Support

Humanities Technology is happy to support undergraduate and graduate students during their educational journey. You can stop by our Learning Lab (2118 Rolfe Hall) should you need assistance.

Helpful Guides

• Connecting to a class or an instructor using Zoom

• Podcasting Basics for Students

Suggested Software

While there are a lot of different tools available, the following represent a short list of good, mostly free (or limited cost) software applications.

Audio

• Adobe Audition – (MacOS, Win) Free for UCLA students

• Audacity – (Linux, MacOS, Win) Free

• Garageband – (iOS, MacOS) Free

Design

• Adobe InDesign – (MacOS, Win) Free for UCLA students

• Affinity Designer for Mac  – (MacOS) approx. $50

• Affinity Designer for Windows – (Win), approx. $50

• Pages – (MacOS) Free

Photo/Images

• Adobe Lightroom – (MacOS, Win_ Free for UCLA Students

• Adobe Photoshop – (MacOS, Win_ Free for UCLA Students

• Affinity Photo for Mac – (MacOS), approx. $50

• Affinity Photo for Windows – (Win), approx. $50

• Gimp – (Linux, MacOS, Win) Free photo and image editing tool.

• Photopea – Free photo editing in a web browser.

Video

• Adobe Premiere Pro – (MacOS, Win_ Free for UCLA Students

• Adobe Premiere Rush – (MacOS, Win_ Free for UCLA Students

• iMovie – (iOS, MacOS) Free

• Shotcut – (Linux, MacOS, Win) Free