Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-based suite of productivity applications that allows for seamless access and collaboration.
Welcome to Office 365
Log in to Office 365 Web Apps (employees and students)
Login to Student Email Log in to Employee Email
What is Office 365?
Office 365 is a cloud-based suite of productivity tools from Microsoft. It empowers you to create, collaborate, and innovate through a host of email, calendaring, and premier applications that can be accessed from anywhere in the world, at any time, on any device. Whether working from campus or on the go, Office 365 is available wherever you are.
Office 365 Services includes Exchange email and calendaring (Outlook), messaging and collaborations (Skype for Business), One Drive, file sharing and content management (SharePoint Online), online version of Office applications, along with the traditional Office applications of Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and many other business productivity applications.
Through Office 365, you can seamlessly communicate using email, schedule meetings, create and share documents, and collaborate in one secure and consistent platform. With more than fifteen applications – the Microsoft Office Suite products you’re familiar with – you have more ways to unleash your productivity than ever before.
Benefits of Office 365 are:
- More Storage - 100 GB of email storage per user with enhanced security features
- Updated calendar – email reminders for events, improved search, birthday calendars, etc.
- New Outlook on the Web – a new look of web access, better browsing capability, etc.
- Better integration with other Office 365 services, like OneDrive and SharePoint
- 1 TB of cloud storage on OneDrive for business
- Improvements to document collaboration
- More comprehensive spam detection
- Additional out of office options
- Increased level of security by applying multi-factor authentication when accessing these services
- Increased reliability and redundancy with disaster recovery capabilities
Frequently Asked Questions about Office 365
Office 365 services includes email and calendering (Exchange Online), communication and Collaborations (Skype for Business), document sharing (SharePoint Online), personal cloud storage (OneDrive for Business), an online version of Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access), and a traditional Office 365 applications version (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) that can be installed on 5 different devices.
Yes, but please keep in mind security of the data. The College is moving to Office 365 so that information can be better protected when communicated through College's email and calendaring within the college community. Please do keep in mind that protected information should never be shared out of the College. Please see OneDrive for more information about sharing data.
Yes. Office 365 is accessible using most devices, anywhere with an Internet connection. This includes smartphones and other mobile devices. Access to the new Office 365 environment will require additional configuration to allow for increased security in access to calendars and email. Please see Multifactor Authentication page for additional information.