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Q:How do I activate my expiring MATLAB license for the next academic year?
Your MATLAB license will expire each year on July 1. You will need to re-activate MATLAB using a new Activation Key (see below).
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Getting Help
Support for MATLAB installation is available from the MathWorks. Visit MathWorks Support for more information. The MathWorks may ask for your License Number (see below).
Before You Start
- Please note: The new MATLAB key will be saved once you activate it. Your MATLAB installation will use the old key until it expires, then it will switch to the new key.
- Make sure you have made a note of your License Number and Activation Key.
- You can find both of these through IS&T's MATLAB page.
- You should already have a mathworks.com account from the last time you activated or installed MATLAB. You will need your mathworks.com username (should be your MIT e-mail address) and password (not your Kerberos password).
Instructions
Note: Release R2010a is illustrated; adjust appropriately for a different release.
- Launch MATLAB, and run Help > Licensing > Activate Software.
You may also run the Activation Wizard manually:- Linux: /usr/local/matlabr2010a/bin/activate_matlab.sh
(Location may vary if you did not accept the default settings during installation.) - Mac: Open the Applications folder. Right-click on MATLAB_R2010a, and choose Show Package Contents. Double-click on the Activate icon.
- Windows: Start Menu > Programs > MATLAB R2010a > Activate MATLAB
- Linux: /usr/local/matlabr2010a/bin/activate_matlab.sh
- The activation wizard will start. Click Next.
- You will be prompted to log in to your MathWorks.com account. Click Next.
- You will be prompted to select the license to associate with. Select the Total Academic Headcount Campus license, and click Next.
- Enter the activation key, and click Next.
Don't have the activation key? Scroll back to the top of the page and re-read the "Before You Start" section.
- Enter the username of the user who will run MATLAB. You should usually accept the default value, unless you normally log in to this computer with a different username than the one you're currently using. Click Next.
Note: This is your username on your local workstation. It is not necessarily your MIT Kerberos username. If you need to run MATLAB as a different user, you can re-activate it as that user.
- The activation wizard will prompt you to confirm the information you have entered. Click Next.
- The activation wizard will finish and offer to start MATLAB. Click Finish. After a few moments, MATLAB should launch automatically. MATLAB will now also be available in the Start Menu and on your Desktop.