Altium/altium-education.md

# Altium Education
Altium Education is a program to provide Altium licenses to students to use in their studies.
Details at https://education.altium.com/

# Getting a student license
1. Go to https://www.altium.com/education/students
1. Click on the "Enroll for Free" button
1. Fill out the verification form with your RU email address
![Verification signup form](Graphics/signup-1.png)
1. Click "Start Verification"
1. You will start the verification process with proxid.
![Proxiid verification start](Graphics/proxid-start.png)
1. Proxiid will ask for your instituion: "Reykjavik University"
![Proxiid institution query](Graphics/proxid-institution.png)
1. Proxiid will need your institution email:  "username@RU.IS"
![Proxiid email query](Graphics/proxid-email.png)
1. Proxiid will then submit the request, then send you an email
![Proxiid request](Graphics/proxid-request.png)
1. You should get an email (you may need to check Spam) from `request@proxi.id`.  Notice that this is the same domain as where Altium sent you.  Click on the "Continue" button or cut and past the link at the bottom of the email(a safer choice).
![Proxiid confirmation](Graphics/proxid-confirmation.png)
1. In the browser, it should ask you to complete verification
![Proxiid complete](Graphics/proxid-complete.png)
1. This should return you to the Altium site where you can then sign up for the Lab.
It will force you to scroll through the privacy policy near the end before you can check the box.
![Student Lab enrollment](Graphics/enrollment.png)
1. After completing the form, your enrollment is complete.  You will need to wait up to a few hours to receive your license in email.
![Student Lab enrollment complete](Graphics/enrollment-complete.png)