Use these resources to build your curriculum, set up software environments, and give your students access to the tools they need.
Create your curriculum
Academic Initiative Courseware Repository
The Courseware Repository has over 70 Rational and Telelogic courses that are available to Academic Initiative
members at no charge. We recommend these foundation courses that cover each stage in the software development lifecycle,
but be sure to explore all the topics and skill levels that apply to your classes.
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Foundation courses
- (RP523) Essentials of IBM Rational Method Composer
- (RR611) Mastering Requirements Management with Use Cases
- (RD585) Mastering Model Driven Systems Development
- (RP601) Mastering the Management of Iterative Development
- (RT101) Rational Principles of Software Testing for Testers
- Teaching with Rational Team Concert
Academic Initiative Courseware Repository: Rational and Telelogic courses
More resources
You can also find helpful material with these resources.
Set up the environment
There are several ways that you can get Rational software and make it available to your students for labs, workshops, and team projects.
Academic Initiative Software Catalog
Academic Initiative members can download full versions
of Rational products from the Software Catalog. There are hundreds of Rational products for a wide variety of
purposes. You can search the Catalog by software brand, part number, or text string. To help you get started,
we recommend a few products for use in teaching and academic curricula and provide their part numbers.
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Recommended Rational downloads
The quickest way to locate these products in the software catalog is to use the "Find by Part Number" option and then type, or cut and paste, a part number into the search field. If a product is packaged as an eAssembly, choose the components that apply to your configuration.
- Rational Software Architect (CR7NWML)
- Rational Application Developer (CR7NPML)
- Rational Method Composer (CR7WIML)
- Rational Requirements Composer (CR81YML)
- Rational Team Concert (CR7V9EN)
- Rational Quality Manager (CR8GNML)
- Rational Developer for System z (CR7SGML)
- Rational Developer for System i (CR6QNML)
Download from the Jazz community site
The Rational products that are developed as part of the Jazz initiative are available to everyone in trial and beta versions.
It's a good way to evaluate and familiarize yourself with a product before downloading the fully licensed version,
or to look ahead and participate in the development of next release.
Inspire your students
These resources can help students to explore on their own for independent research or team projects and apply their knowledge to real-world situations.

