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Microsoft Office 365 Education FAQ

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Questions

What is Office 365 Education?

Microsoft Office 365 Education for students, faculty and staff is a service that enables access to a suite of Office 365 web based software, 1 TB of cloud storage through OneDrive, and access to download and install of the full Office Productivity Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and more. The software can be made available on up to 5 personal devices.

Do i qualify for an Office 365 Education account and how do i get one?

The only requirement is that you are a Oakland University faculty, staff, or student with an OU email address. See the instruction for creating an account here

I have an account, how do I log in to office 365 for Education

Log in at https://portal.office.com

What is included in Office 365 Education at Oakland University?

Office 2016 Download

Install the Office 2016 suite on up to 5 of your PC, Mac, or mobile devices.

Word Online

A web based document editor.

Excel Online

A web based spreadsheet editor.

PowerPoint Online

A web based presentation tool.

OneNote Online

A web based collaborative note taking tool

Forms

Assessment and survey tool

more info on forms

SharePoint Online

Platform to store, organize, share, and access information for projects and teams.

Delve

Delve is a feed for keeping track of updates for Office 365 Education documents and SharePoint sites.

more info on Delve

Newsfeed

Newsfeed aggregates conversations in SharePoint Online groups.

more info on Newsfeed

Sway

A online presentation tool

Yammer

An internal social media site

Video

An internal video hosting solution for posting and sharing videos.

What is not included in our instance of Office 365?

TEAMS

By default, Microsoft Teams is off by default for the education Suite. Status: no review requested

How can new features be added?

The feature must have a use case identified and emailed to [email protected] to begin the review process.

What is the difference between The traditional Office suite and and Office 2016 from Office 365

Traditional Office validates is license to a computer, Office 365 is licensed to a user and requires a login.

Will all my Office documents be stored in the cloud?

You can choose where to store your data locally or in the cloud.

How much space do I get in !OneDrive and is it encrypted?

You get 1 TB of storage space, and the data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

What will happen to my account and Data after I graduate or leave OU?

You will lose you and any information stored in OneDrive the same day you lose your netid.

What type of information should I store in OneDrive?

OneDrive is appropriate for personal or education use, but not official university business.