What is it?
Office 365 is a suite of personal productivity tools that covers a broad spectrum of tasks: from professional document editing to managing spreadsheets and presentations, from email management to task planning and document sharing.
Who can use it?
Office 365 is available to all students regularly enrolled at the University of Bologna and can be accessed with institutional credentials (@studio.unibo.it) at portal.office365.com.
Upon termination of the relationship with the University, the student retains the ability to use only email.
With the end of studies, the validity of the licenses for Office products installed on personal computers through the agreement between the University of Bologna and Microsoft also ceases. To continue using the products, it is necessary to purchase a license according to the manufacturer's commercial conditions.
What does the license include?
The license includes:
- the ability to use the online version of the main Office applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook (mail, contacts, calendar, tasks);
- the ability to download and install the most up-to-date version of Office on your PC;
- access to OneDrive, a cloud storage space for documents, photos, videos, etc., which can be edited and shared even from different devices;
- Project, Planner and To-Do applications, to organize, plan and track projects and tasks;
- Power Apps, a set of apps and services for the simplified development of applications according to a “low-code” approach;
- Power Automate, a cloud-based service that offers a simple method for creating workflows to automate tasks and processes;
- Sway, an online program for creating simple slideshows;
- Teams: an integrated communication and collaboration platform that combines instant messaging, audio and video calls, and content and information sharing.
Support
The University of Bologna does not provide any technical support for downloading, installing and using of what is included in the Office 365 license.
For any information, please refer to the online documentation.
