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What is Office365?

Office 365 is essentially the Microsoft counterpart to Google's G Suite. In addition to the classic suite applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook), there are many other applications, such as Teams and OneDrive, which we will explore in due course.

Key Features of Office365:

Access classic Microsoft applications like Word and Powerpoint from any web-enabled computer or mobile device.
Easily share files with classmates and collaborate on them in real time.
Automatically have the most up-to-date version of all Office365 applications
A secure place to store and backup your files.
Use Teams for group chats, to join meetings, collaborate, share and store files with students and staff .

Accessing the Service

Only registered UCC students can access this service. As a UCC student you'll have access to this software 24 hours after you've completed Registration Part 2 and are a fully registered UCC student.

Important: Once you graduate you will no longer be able to avail of this service.

Task: Install Office On Your Computer

Log in to your Office365 account using your Student IT Account.
Click on the red grid icon in the top left hand corner.
Click on "Explore all your apps".
Click on Install Office Apps.
Start downloading your office applications!

Get Started!

Troubleshooting Installation Issues:

If you run into issues while installing Office, you can view Microsoft's troubleshooting resource.

Microsoft Teams

All students in UCC can also use Microsoft Teams to create ad-hoc digital collaboration spaces, to host meetings, distribute files, and collaborate in real time with other students, UCC staff, and even people from outside UCC. Team’s meetings can be scheduled in the Gsuite calendar and lecturers will use Teams for online classes.

A guide to using Microsoft Teams is available online at:

www.ucc.ie/en/media/support/itservices/TeamsQS(3).pdf (Links to an external site.)

You can download the desktop app here https://www.office.com

You can download the mobile app. iOS (Links to an external site.) Android (Links to an external site.)

Knowledge Check
Answer

Both Google Drive and Microsoft One Drive are similar cloud storage services which you have access to as a UCC student. What is the key difference between the two?

The key difference is that upon graduating from your course, you will no longer have access to your Office365 or One Drive accounts. Therefore, any files or content you wish to keep beyond graduation should be stored in your Google Drive account, as you will retain access to this after graduation.

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