Medieval Europe
  • Welcome to the Medieval World
  • How to Join the Online Class
  • Teaching in a Pandemic
    • On Apathy and Historical Thinking
  • Syllabus
    • Your Professors
      • Dr. Marc Saurette
      • Professor Sarah Keeshan
      • Vanessa Finney (TA Extraordinaire)
    • Learning Outcomes
    • Communication
      • The Digital Classroom
      • Digital Office Hours
      • Discussion Groups
    • Textbooks
      • Social Annotation
    • Coursework
      • Participation
      • Critical Reflections
      • Critical Analyses
      • Peer Feedback
      • Process Letter
    • Assessment
    • Deadlines
  • Digital Tools
    • MS Office 365
    • MS Teams
      • (really) Short Guide to MS Teams
      • Streaming Lectures
    • Virtual MacOdrum Library
    • Poll Everywhere
    • Zotero
    • Hypothes.is
    • Trello
      • Managing your Time
      • Using Trello to Plan Work
    • cuLearn
    • cuPortfolio
  • Weekly Schedule
  • Exercises
    • Icebreaker
    • Background Survey
    • Anatomy of a Primary Source
      • Sources Schematic
      • The Problem of Primary Sources
      • Reading Cluny's Foundation Charter
      • Charter Translation Exercise
    • Anatomy of an Academic Article
      • The Research Process
      • Understanding Research Articles
    • Keeping Track of Assignments with Trello
    • Transcription Exercise
  • FAQ
  • Prologue to the Middle Ages
    • Prologue
  • Module 1. What are the Middle Ages?
    • When are the Middle Ages?
    • Where are the Middle Ages?
  • Module 2 - The Late Antique World
    • The Late Roman Empire
    • The Transformation of Empire
  • Module 3 - the Post-Roman Mediterranean
    • Successor Kingdoms
    • The Eastern Roman Empire
    • The Rise and Spread of Islam
  • Module 4 - Early Medieval Society and Culture
    • Faith and Learning
    • Cities and Countryside
    • Power Structures
    • Social Structures
  • In closing
    • The End of the Early Middle Ages
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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.

You may already have Office 365 installed on your computer using a non-Carleton ID. You will need to make sure that you are signed into Office with your CMAIL account in order to take advantage of its integration with Microsoft Teams which we will be using to communicate by text or videoconferencing.

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. Go to products.office.com/en-ca/student/office-in-educationoffice.com/getoffice365

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

  3. Provide your MyCarletonOne password

  4. To download the MS Office suite,

    1. Log into the web interface of student email

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

You may have already installed Microsoft Office before arriving at Carleton. It is important that you authenticate with Microsoft with your Carleton email even so, because many tools for collaborating in class (such as Teams) only work with people who belong to our institution.

If you need help with installing any Microsoft tools, you can consult the ITS help page or (easier) get in touch with the ITS (Information Technology Services) help desk.