Links for Brunel students and staff to use and/or install Matlab

Please note that the Brunel Matlab portal has just been created and any notes that I create to help you may be quite brief and may change as more testing is done. My understanding is that the portal will always have the latest version of Matlab which at the end of March 2020 is R2020A which is newer than the version installed in the Brunel labs. There are two releases per calander year.

To create an account, to download or use the online version

Getting an account and the portal

Click here for the Matlab portal for Brunel students and staff.

Directly to the online version

If your first attempt at using the portal is to go directly to the online version then you will need to select the create an account option and you will have to use your @brunel.ac.uk email. Afterwards you will use the @brunel.ac.uk email for the login and the mathworks password that you have created.

Please note that the following does not work with internet explorer. There is a list of browser which are supported. From the ones that I am able to try, the Windows Microsoft edge browser works and the google chrome browser on linux works

Click here to go directly to the online Matlab version.

Upload and Download comments

There is a MATLAB-drive but I do not have experience yet of ``syncing'' files in a folder on a local computer with files on the ``cloud server'' to be able to work in this mode. It is however worth doing the install for this. If the syncs are not working immediately then there is the possibility of using the upload and download bits in the top bar for the files you wish to use or retrieve. Relative to your home folder, the default name of the folder on the local computer is "MATLAB DRIVE" on windows and "MATLAB-DRIVE" on linux. You can also upload a zip file to get several files on the cloud server in one go. By running the command to create the zip file to eventually submit, and which was used in the getting started task, is a way of creating a file so that you only need to download one file.

Please note that I am learning the system and I can only offer limited advice.

Links for other information

The following links contain information from the mathworks web site to get started.

  • The Quick Start Campus-Wide License pdf for Faculty, Staff, and Students,

  • The Update your Campus-Wide license pdf.

  • A link to the available online self-paced interactive trainings at mathworks.

  • A link to the Teaching resources available at mathworks.