MS Office 365

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 download Office 365 for free. 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. Provide your student email address: e.g; janedoe@cmail.carleton.ca not jane.doe@carleton.ca

  2. Provide your MyCarletonOne password

  3. To download the MS Office suite,

    1. Click on the words ① “Office 365” in the upper let hand corner of the web interface, and then ② “Install Office 2016”

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