Office 365

What is Office365?

Office365 is a cloud based email service provided through a partnership between the University and Microsoft using Microsoft’s Office365 service.

It will allow you access from anywhere to your Lincoln email, contacts, personal calendar and includes mobile access, file editing and sharing using office web apps. These key features are outlined below.

Key features:

Outlook Web App
Feature rich web browser access to your University email, contacts and personal calendar. 

  • 50 GB of mailbox storage
  • Schedule meetings quick and easily with other students.

Office Web Apps
Create and edit Microsoft Office documents in your web browser.

  • The Office Web Apps include Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote

 

OneDrive - 1TB of storage
Access your OneDrive via your Office 365 account

  • Easily upload documents via the web.
  • Create new office documents on your OneDrive.
  • Edit office documents in your web browser.
  • Share documents with your fellow students.

 

How do I access Office365?

Two choices:

 

Or

 

Getting the latest version of Office365 for FREE

As a Lincoln student, you are able to download, install and use Office365 on your personal device (Windows or Mac Operating System) while you are enrolled, for free.

  1. Login to Office365, and click on the ... in the top right-hand corner, and select Office.com
  2. That will take you to a Microsoft webpage, where you click on 'Install Office on your PC or Mac', and follow the instructions

 

Limitations

Please note your license to continue using Office365, OneDrive and Lync rely on your enrolment status remaining current. When you graduate or discontinue study at Lincoln there are changes to your use of these services.
Students will not have access to their OneDrive Documents (via Office365) after graduation and will need to copy/move the documents somewhere else. 

From 2015 your email account is also affected by your enrolment status, and you will be sent an email informing you when your access to this email account will be removed. 

 

Need help?

See the help pages for Office365

Also FAQs for Office365 and OneDrive

Want more information?

Contact: IT Service Desk
Email: ithelp@lincoln.ac.nz
Phone: +64 3 423 0100