Buying Additional CD s for school use
Schools with a single user CD often contact us for advice when considering whether or not to purchase more stand-alone CD s.
This can be a cost-effective way of extending use of our programs in a very small school, or in schools that do not yet have networked computers.
We advise that you contact Sales first, and explain exactly which disk(s) you already have:
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Some older releases, and all older versions, are not compatible with our current releases. It is not possible to “mix” both version 3 and version 4 on the same computer. In some cases we can provide further copies of the same release. Otherwise, we can quote for upgrades of older disks.
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Some schools place the program student data store (wordshark-shared or numbershark-shared) on the server, so that although they have a single stand-alone CD, it is possible to access a student’s work from any one of several machines, almost like a network version. This is NOT advised if you use more than one CD at a time: File sharing violations are possible, as you are trying to share a single user data file on more than one machine.
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Purchasing several more CD s will often be more expensive than buying a network version.
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For these reasons, if you have a network it is almost always technically and educationally preferable to trade up from the CD to the school network version rather than buy more copies of the CD.