Office 365 is a suite of cloud-based productivity and collaboration applications developed by Microsoft. The Office 365 applications are similar to Office 2019 but provide additional online features, and can be accessed on your personal device or through a web browser, and include software for note-taking, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. Popular cloud applications include Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and OneNote. 

Beloit College has a site license that allows current faculty, staff and students to utilize the online version of Office 365 or download the offline version on their College-owned or personally-owned computers or mobile devices.

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Office 365 is available to current faculty, staff, and students.  To get started with Office 365, use the following steps:  

1. Visit office.com and click Sign In at the top right corner of the page

2. Sign in with your Beloit College email address and password

3. Choose from any of the available apps on the Home Screen to work with Office products online

You can also download and install Office 365 apps on your computer to use offline. If you already have Microsoft Office 2016 2019 installed on your computer, please use those applications instead; Office 365 will take priority over Office 2016 2019 apps installed on the same computer.

To install Office 365:

1. Sign in to Office 365 with the steps above

2. Click the Install Office button at the top right corner of the Home Screen and choose Install Software

3. Click Apps & devices on the left side of the page

4. Click the appropriate platform (Mac, Windows, iOS, Android) to download the software installer

5. Run and follow the prompts to install the software

Below are a few helpful learning resources to get started on Office 365:

• Office 365 Training Center

• Office 365 Video Training