SAS^® OnDemand for Academics

After you have created a course (if you are an instructor) or registered for a course (if you are a student), return to your SAS^® OnDemand for Academics home page. From the course table, find the row for the course that you have created or registered. In the appropriate row, click Download Client or Get Software and then follow the instructions.

See Step-by-Step Setup Registration and Installation Guides for more information.

Refer to the appropriate Instructor or Student manuals. Each manual has a section dedicated to the available software applications:

• Instructor User Guide
• Student User Guide

An Internet browser is required to use the SAS^® OnDemand for Academics Control Center (registration, course selection, and so on), to download SAS^® OnDemand for Academics software, and to use the SAS^® Web Editor client. We recommend Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (or greater) for Microsoft Windows systems. Safari and Mozilla Firefox might be appropriate for Macintosh systems. While other browsers might work with the offering, they have not been fully tested.

Note that SAS^® Web Editor has specific Internet browser requirements. See SAS^® OnDemand for Academics: Web Editor Commonly Asked Questions for more information.

While virtual machines might work for SAS^® OnDemand for Academics software applications, SAS does not officially support their use and they are not guaranteed to work.

A SAS Profile is an account that you can create to access specific information and resources from the SAS Web site. If you are a current SAS user, you might already have a SAS Profile. If you are a new SAS user, a SAS Profile will be created for you when you register for SAS^® OnDemand for Academics.

If you forget your SAS Profile password or are concerned about whether it meets expected password strength criteria, see What should I do if I forget my password?

To determine the status of your SAS^® OnDemand for Academics account, do the following:

This is not advised. If you are using the software to process your SAS programs, you should wait for your program (job) to run before exiting the software. Once you exit from the software, the connection to your program might end.

An employee of a university can download SAS^® OnDemand for Academics software with the intent of installing it on university lab machines (per the legal click license that must be accepted when registering for SAS^® OnDemand for Academics).

After the software is installed on the lab machines, only registered users of SAS^® OnDemand for Academics have the right to use it; these users must log on to the SAS Server using the credentials that were provided to them when they registered for the service.

Your SAS^® OnDemand for Academics Home Page is part of the SAS^® OnDemand for Academics Control Center. The Control Center is used by students to register for and view course information. The Control Center is used by instructors to register, create courses, view course information, edit course information, and delete courses.

For step-by-step instructions, refer to the appropriate usage manual on the SAS^® OnDemand for Academics Support Site.

There are a few common reasons why you might not be able to connect:

• You might have a brand new account. Your account will be activated within 15 minutes of registration, and then you'll gain access to the SAS Server.
• The SAS Server might be temporarily down for maintenance.
• You might need to reset your SAS Profile password.
• Your account status might be Pending. See Checking Account Status for more information.
• Your SAS Profile password might have expired. This password must be reset after 180 days (approximately six months). For more information, see Resetting your SAS Profile Password.
• Your SAS Profile password might be too weak. See What is a SAS Profile? and Resetting Your SAS Profile Password for more information.
• Your account might have expired. Student accounts are valid for the duration of the registered course (plus a grace period to ensure that assignments can be completed).

The SAS Server might be down at certain times for maintenance, testing, or enhancements. If you are unable to connect, make sure that you have a working Internet connection. If you do and you still cannot connect, please try again at a later time. For more details, see Current SAS Server Status.

Instructors have the ability to store data files on the SAS Server. Other types of files (such as program files, course notes, or directories) are not allowed. Once a data file has been stored on the SAS Server, students and instructors can access it using an appropriate LIBNAME or FILENAME statement. Instructors are provided with a unique LIBNAME and FILENAME statement for each course that they teach in case they decide to use the SAS Server to store data file(s).

For more information, refer to the SAS® OnDemand for Academics: Usage Guide for Instructors.

Please be sure that the SAS data set that you uploaded is named using all lowercase letters and that there are no spaces in the file name. Our hosted servers use Unix; they do not recognize mixed or uppercase letters or spaces in file names. If you have uploaded a SAS data set that uses mixed or uppercase letters or has a space in the file name, then simply rename the SAS data set to use all lowercase letters (with no spaces in the name) and then upload the SAS data set again.

For more information, refer to the SAS® OnDemand for Academics: Usage Guide for Instructors.

No. The SAS Server is unable to access or recognize the local drives of your PC. If you write a LIBNAME statement or a FILENAME statement that references a local directory path, you will receive processing errors. If you are using SAS® OnDemand for Academics: Enterprise Guide, then you can upload the SAS data sets that you want to work with to the SAS Server. For more information, refer to the appropriate usage manuals available from the SAS^® OnDemand for Academics Support Site.

When you try to open certain SAS Libraries using SAS Enterprise Guide or create a data source using SAS Enterprise Miner, some of the available SAS Library icons might be colored white and others might be colored yellow. All of the SAS Libraries are available for use.

The color simply identifies whether the SAS Library was pre-assigned by the system (yellow libraries) or whether the library will be assigned after it is selected (white libraries). White libraries that are selected for use will become assigned and will turn yellow for the remainder of your session.

Instructors are responsible for communicating their intent to use SAS^® OnDemand for Academics to their students. If desired, instructors can access a sample message by performing the following steps:

1. Log on to your SAS^® OnDemand for Academics home page.
2. Find the appropriate course in the Course Table.
3. Click Info.
4. Review the sample message text. The message text can be copied or edited as needed.

For more information, see the SAS® OnDemand for Academics: Usage Guide for Instructors.

Please send your request to support@sas.com. Be sure to specify that you are using SAS^® OnDemand for Academics and provide any other useful information about your issue.

You need to use a password to log on to the SAS^® OnDemand for Academics Control Center (the registration application) or the available software applications that you use in your course.

If you have forgotten your SAS Profile password, then follow these steps:

1. Access the My SAS Profile page.
2. Click the Forgot Password? link and then follow the steps to access or create a new password.
   • The password can not be the name that you used to register or exceed two consecutive characters from that name. For example, if you registered as 'Jonathan Smith', you could not use either 'Jonathan' or 'Smith' and you could not include three consecutive characters such as 'jon' or 'ith'.
   • The password must be at least eight characters in length.
   • The password must contain characters from three of the following four categories:
     • English uppercase characters (A through Z)
     • English lowercase characters (a through z)
     • Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
     • Non-alphabetic characters (for example, !, $, #, %)
3. When appropriate, use your updated SAS Profile password (along with your SAS Server User ID) to log on to a SAS^® OnDemand for Academics software application.

SAS^® OnDemand for Academics: Enterprise Guide 4.3 is designed for use and has been tested on Microsoft Windows XP Pro, Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium and above (32 or 64-bit), and Microsoft Windows 8 (64-bit). We recommend that these operating systems are run on a physical CPU as virtualized environments are not guaranteed to work.

Beginning in late June, 2013, SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 will be replaced with SAS Enterprise Guide 6.1. SAS Enterprise Guide 6.1 is designed for use with and has been tested on Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium and above (64-bit) and Microsoft Windows 8 (64-bit). 32-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems are not supported. We recommend that supported operating systems be run on a physical CPU as virtualized environments are not guaranteed to work.

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Notes

• The Macintosh operating system is not supported
• Microsoft Windows Media Center is not supported
• Microsoft Windows XP (or any other 32-bit Microsoft Windows operating system) will no longer be supported after the spring semester of 2013 (June, 2013).

Microsoft Windows XP is currently supported, but will no longer be supported after the spring semester of 2013 (June, 2013). No 32-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems will be supported after this date.

Refer to the appropriate Instructor or Student manuals. Each manual has a section dedicated to the available software applications:

• Instructor User Guide
• Student User Guide

You can access default sample data, sample data associated with SAS course materials, or data that has been uploaded by a professor for your course (if applicable). To learn how to access this data, see Selecting Data from SAS^® OnDemand for Academics: Enterprise Miner^TM.

Refer to the appropriate Instructor or Student manuals. Each manual has a section dedicated to the available software applications:

• Instructor User Guide
• Student User Guide

Some instructors choose to use JMP^® software to access the SAS^® OnDemand for Academics hosted servers. JMP^® 10.0.2 (available by January, 2013) or greater is required if you are using Microsoft Windows 8.

If you have a copy of JMP software that you are using for your course, you can use SAS® OnDemand for Academics to access the SAS Server. For more information, see Working with JMP^®.

Refer to the appropriate Instructor or Student manuals. Each manual has a section dedicated to the available software applications:

• Instructor User Guide
• Student User Guide