FAQ's-4077

Academic institutions that are Microsoft customers and license Office for all faculty/staff are be eligible to offer Office 365 to their Students at no additional cost. Students can take advantage of free Office 365 ProPlus by accessing the Boyertown's Office 365 Portal,

Microsoft is committed to the success of each student and educator. Microsoft believes this offer will help students thrive in their educational endeavors by providing Microsoft’s best productivity solution at no additional licensing cost.

If your school qualifies and has allowed self-sign up but you don’t currently have Office 365 at your school-

1. For PC and Mac:

a. Visit our Office 365 Portal

b. Sign in using District credentials <your username> and <your password>

c. Install the Office Suite on up to 5 compatible PCs and Macs, plus 5 tablets.

2. For iOS and Android:

a. Download from your app store

• iPad: Word, Excel, PowerPoint

• iPhone

• Android

b. Sign in with your school credentials for full editing capability

c. For IOS and Android installations, your child will need <their school email address (username@student.boyertownasd.org)> and <password> to sign in.

In addition to having access to the Office ProPlus client which has application like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, which work across your PCs and Macs, you can active the clients on your iPad, iPhone, and Android Phone, giving you access to edit and review your homework on the go. You also get 1 TB of storage through OneDrive for Business to ensure you access to all of your documents whenever you need them. If you using a computer that doesn’t have Office installed, don’t worry you can edit or review those assignments in Office Online in any browser.

Office supports PCs and Windows tablets running Windows 7 or higher, and Macs with Mac OS X 10.6 or higher. Office for iPad can be installed on iPads running version 7.0 or higher. Click the link for information about mobile devices.

Use Office Online for free

The online version of your favorite Office applications where you can share and simultaneously work on your documents with classmates and friends. No need to merge different versions later.

Download the OneNote app for PC, Mac, mobile & tablet

Purchase either:

Office 365 University (best for University students)

Office 365 Home Premium

When you graduate, your Office 365 subscription through your institution ends upon graduation. You may enroll into other consumer or commercial offers available. If you have Office 365 Education at your school, you should make sure to transfer all your files from your school OneDrive to your personal OneDrive prior to graduation.

Office 365 ProPlus comes with a full version of Office and familiar Office applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote and more. Office 365 ProPlus is a user-based service and allows each student to install on up to five PCs or Macs, and five tablets (iPad) and access Office mobile applications on iPhone and Android phones. (Office Mobile applications are included with all Windows phones). More information here.

Yes, this would count towards the limit of installing it on 5 tablets. Just install the applications and sign in with <their school email address (username@student.boyertownasd.org)>.

Office 365 University includes 60 minutes per month of Skype premium.

Office 365 ProPlus includes additional organizational applications such as Lync and a number of added technologies for organizational uses (Information Rights Management as one example) that are not available in Office 365 University. When schools combine the Office 365 ProPlus benefit with Office 365 Education, students get access to more advanced collaboration tools such as Outlook and Lync.

No. The Office purchased is a consumer offering and students can continue to take advantage of the purchased offer.

The office client supports having both an Office 365 personal account (used when you signed up for Office 365 University) and a school account (login provided by your school), students will be able to remain signed in with both. Office install will have both your personal and institution ID associated with it after the installation.

If you are having issues installing Office, visit Install Office on your PC or Mac with Office 365 for business for installation instructions.