Thanksto ODU's campus agreement with Microsoft, we are able to offer Office 365 to all members of the ODU community at no cost, for as long as you are part of the University. We want you to have the tools you need to succeed, and we want to improve communication and collaboration across campus.
Office 365 is a family of products that includes cloud collaboration tools and applications that can be installed on PCs, Macs, tablets and smartphones. Microsoft designed these applications to work together to provide a seamless experience across all devices.
With Office 365 Pro Plus, you can install Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote on up to five PCs or Macs, plus install Office apps on mobile devices. You'll recieve the latest version of all software, and free software updates for as long as you are part of ODU.
Important: Office 365 Pro Plus is for use on personal computers only -- not for University-managed workstations. We have a separate license that covers Microsoft Office products on ODU-managed machines. If you have questions about which license covers your particular device, please ask the TSP for your college or department.
Office Online is a version of Office products you can use to create, edit and share documents from any modern web browser. Office Online uses the same interface as the Office software on your computer or mobile device. Files that you create or edit in Office Online can be opened in the Office programs installed on your PC, Mac, iOS or Android device. There is nothing to install or activate.
Create digital notebooks to capture ideas in whatever form they come. Take notes by typing, handwriting, sketching, clipping links and webpages, inserting photos and videos, embedding tables, and attaching files. Your notebooks travel with you across all of your devices. If you have Office installed on your PC, you should already have OneNote. If you're on Mac, iOS or Android, you must download OneNote separately from your app store. For the best OneNote experience, we recommend you connect your OneNote to your ODU Office 365 account and your ODU OneDrive for Business.
We recommend that you connect your OneNote to your ODU Office 365 account. The first time you launch OneNote on a new device, you'll be asked to create a Microsoft account or log in using an existing account provided by your University. Log in using your ODU email address and your MIDAS password to connect OneNote to your ODU Office 365 account and OneDrive for Business.
OneDrive is a cloud file storage application that works seamlessly with Office on any device, making it easy to create, edit, store and share things like class assignments and projects between devices. Start working on one device and easily switch to another device to continue working anywhere.
You can connect OneDrive to Office apps on any device, and access your files anywhere you have an internet connection. In most cases, OneDrive is automatically connected to Office apps by associating the app with your ODU Office 365 account. We recommend you connect your ODU OneDrive to all Office apps activated with your ODU Office 365 account.
Office 365 at ODU comes with 5TB of online storage in OneDrive for Business, which is different and separate from personal OneDrive accounts. In fact, you might have a faculty/staff OneDrive, a student OneDrive AND a personal OneDrive, all of which can be attached to Microsoft Office on your computer simultaneously. Just make sure you pay attention to where you save your files. Data generated as an ODU faculty or staff member should be stored in your faculty/staff OneDrive for Business, not in a student OneDrive for Business or a personal OneDrive account.
If you have a personal cloud storage account already, you may want to move your files from that account into ODU's OneDrive for Business. If you'd like help with this process, contact the TSP for your college or department.
Important: University employees must be careful to protect confidential or restricted data. Before using OneDrive to send, store or share University information, review the regulated data storage matrix.
You do have to use your ODU account to activate the Microsoft Office installation, and after activation, your ODU OneDrive will be visible within your Office software. However, you can add additional personal OneDrive accounts so you can open and save documents from either account.
Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Initially a marketing term for an office suite (bundled set of productivity applications), the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Over the years, Office applications have grown substantially closer with shared features such as a common spell checker, Object Linking and Embedding data integration and Visual Basic for Applications scripting language. Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line-of-business software under the Office Business Applications brand.
Office is produced in several versions targeted towards different end-users and computing environments. The original, and most widely used version, is the desktop version, available for PCs running the Windows and macOS operating systems. Microsoft also maintains mobile apps for Android and iOS. Office on the web is a version of the software that runs within a web browser.
Since Office 2013, Microsoft has promoted Office 365 as the primary means of obtaining Microsoft Office: it allows the use of the software and other services on a subscription business model, and users receive feature updates to the software for the lifetime of the subscription, including new features and cloud computing integration that are not necessarily included in the "on-premises" releases of Office sold under conventional license terms. In 2017, revenue from Office 365 overtook conventional license sales. Microsoft also rebranded most of their standard Office 365 editions as "Microsoft 365" to reflect their inclusion of features and services beyond the core Microsoft Office suite.
In October 2022, Microsoft announced that it was to phase out the Microsoft Office brand in favor of "Microsoft 365" by January 2023, the name continuing to be used for legacy product offerings.[16][17] However, Microsoft reversed this stance with the release of an Office 2024 preview build in November 2023.[18][19]
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