Apps Anywhere is the software streaming service provided by the university to staff and students on Windows devices. We’ve had Apps Anywhere since the pandemic and it continues to be our main software delivery platform for all sorts of software.
In the mid-semester break this October, we are undertaking a major upgrade to Apps Anywhere. The work is scheduled in for Wednesday 25th October, 12-2pm. The work is being undertaken by the supplier. Apps Anywhere will be unavailable while the work is underway.
So what’s coming in the new version?
- Users now have the ability to customise their experience. This will allow them to not only select their theme (Dark/Light/System), but also how many apps they want displayed on their home-screen. Moving from a default of two rows of 3 apps, to rows of 4 in this version, the user can now set in the browser how many apps they would like to display from 0 (if they prefer search) up to a total of 20 on the home-screen.
- For new students, a default “Apps” collection will be displayed ensuring that an A-Z of available apps will be viewable (up to a maximum of 20) on first log-in. This ensures that there will be some apps visible to the users to launch from day one until they start building their smart collections through usage.
- A user’s session will now memorise which collection they have selected on log-out. When the user logs back in they will land on the same collection; meaning that if ‘Favourites’ is their preferred collection for example, they will land back where they left off.
- over 70 changes to the user portal to address a variety of accessibility needs making AppsAnywhere 3.1 the most accessible version of the product yet.
- We now provide the following languages out of the box with the highlighted ones being new:
- Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
- Welsh
- English (UK)
- English (US)
- Danish
- Catalan
- Spanish
- German
- French Canadian
- Norwegian
If you have any questions about Apps Anywhere, please contact the Information Centre as usual