Office

Office 365 is Microsoft's subscription-based enterprise tools package. You'll find that you might want to use all or maybe only a few of these in class this year. Certain of these tools are a standard that you might use throughout university and in later jobs, such as Word for word processing, Excel for spreadsheets, Outlook for mail/scheduling etc. Others, like Teams and Whiteboard are relatively new products that might stick around or might not.

For our class, we are going to use Microsoft Teams, so be sure to download it also, install it and test it out before class starts.

How to Install MS Office 365 for free from Carleton

Carleton's Information of Technology Services has a webpage outlining how to register and install Office 365 for free (as long as you are a student). To do so, you need to know what your full Carleton email is (for student Joan of Arc, it would be something like "joanarc@cmail.carleton.ca").

Their instructions are as follows:

1 - Go to https://products.office.com/en-us/student/office-in-education

2 - Provide your student email address: e.g; janedoe@cmail.carleton.ca not jane.doe@carleton.ca

3- Select I’m a student

4 - Click Sign in

5 - Sign in using your email address (firstnamelastname@cmail.carleton.ca) and your MyCarletonOne password

6 - Click Start to accept the terms and conditions of use and enable the license on your account

7 - Click Skip (no extra user invitations are required) [Follow any introductory notices while you are logging into the Office Portal home page]

8 - Top right corner, click Install apps > Microsoft 365 apps link to download and install the software

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