Students and Staff can get free Office 365, 1TB (at eligible schools)

Fingleberries

Hi All,

Microsoft announced yesterday that students worldwide can now take advantage of an offer previously limited to students in the US and get free Office 365 Education for Students.

This entitles you to install the latest versions of Office on up to 5 PCs / Macs and also up to 5 mobile devices (Android, iOS, Windows).

You get 1TB of storage by default, but might be able to leverage another Microsoft offer to boost that to at least 10 Terabyte of storage - although I haven't been able to confirm that yet.

Since some schools allow alumni to keep their college e-mail addresses, it might be worth checking out even if you are not currently attending that school / college. The offer is also opened to teachers and staff also.

The only problem with the offer is that Microsoft doesn't seem to have published a list of the qualifying schools or colleges yet, so your mileage may vary.

Source:
Microsoft Office 365 Blog.

News Links (TechKnow Ireland):
Students to get free Office 365 and upgrade to Unlimited Storage
TIP: How to get unlimited cloud storage on OneDrive

peckerhead

I just tried email addresses from a few of the Irish universities/HEIs and it said they weren't "yet" on the list of eligible institutions. Will be great if it's taken up, but I suspect there'll be misgivings from the IT heads, who have to meet all sorts of compliance targets for networks security that will become more difficult if this takes off. As it is, I'm surprised just how much stuff I can "see" on my institution's network by using my personal OneDrive account. Basically any network resource — shared folders, etc. — that I add as a networked drive to my office PC (I have a staff account, admittedly; I don't know if this could be done from a student profile).

Sniipe

Cheers I signed up for unlimited as I already had office 365. TBH, I only have it for the storage and because I heard it was going to be unlimited.

caycro

Says UCD has been turned off by the institution. If anyone finds a work around would be grateful, was about to cave and buy a monthly sub.

Corholio

Anyone in UCC knows if this works for email addresses there?

s982102

caycro wrote: »

Says UCD has been turned off by the institution. If anyone finds a work around would be grateful, was about to cave and buy a monthly sub.

Same as NUI maynooth.

KCAccidental

Corholio wrote: »

Anyone in UCC knows if this works for email addresses there?

tried it with my ucc umail address, no dice.

68 lost souls

DO you know if this will be for a limited time (EG the cloud storage will only be available for 2 years)? I have a US university email address which should work.

Fingleberries

caycro wrote: »

Says UCD has been turned off by the institution. If anyone finds a work around would be grateful, was about to cave and buy a monthly sub.

s982102 wrote: »

Same as NUI maynooth.

I wonder is it worth sending off an e-mail to the IT departments - they mightn't be aware that the offer is available.

(Although more likely they're worried about non-IT department issued cloud storage).

Fingleberries

68 lost souls wrote: »

DO you know if this will be for a limited time (EG the cloud storage will only be available for 2 years)? I have a US university email address which should work.

The Microsoft blog seems to say "If you are eligible, you can use the plan until you graduate or are no longer enrolled at a qualified school. Student eligibility may be re-verified at any time. At expiration, the Office applications enter a reduced-functionality mode, which means documents can be viewed but it isn’t possible to edit or create new documents."

You can probably re-activate it with a normal Office 365 Sub (or buy a cheap tablet, the kind of which have been floating around Bargain Alerts recently, that also have a years Office 365 Sub included).

shruikan2553

Im pretty sure NUIG has had that offer for ages, or at least very similar.

georgewickstaff

DCU turned off aswell.

Fingleberries

georgewickstaff wrote: »

DCU turned off aswell.

Shame. That's UCD, DCU and NUI Maynooth that are out.

NUI Galway is 'possibly' in.

Waiting to hear from anyone from Trinity or any of the Institutes of Technology.

If they're not eligible, then it's probably best for the BA to be marked expired - as it may not yet be active or available in Ireland

Mods, could you help with that, please.

SureYWouldntYa

TCD turned off as well, disappointing

howardmarks

University of limerick works. Ty op

KCAccidental

seems to be a NUI problem then

shruikan2553

If you have some form of microsoft college email try:
Settings(little gear icon)->Office 365 Setting and along the left click Software

Should be something about installing office there.

TheDriver

My OneDrive seems to be 1Tb anyways??

KCAccidental

TheDriver wrote: »

My OneDrive seems to be 1Tb anyways??

did you buy one of the cheap tablets?

kc90

Fingleberries wrote: »

Shame. That's UCD, DCU and NUI Maynooth that are out.

NUI Galway is 'possibly' in.

Waiting to hear from anyone from Trinity or any of the Institutes of Technology.

If they're not eligible, then it's probably best for the BA to be marked expired - as it may not yet be active or available in Ireland

Mods, could you help with that, please.

I assumed everywhere had availed of it, I'm surprised to see so many can't access it. It does work in Ireland though. We had microsoft reps in a few weeks ago doing demonstrations.

I wonder if it has anything to do with the college email provider, there's maybe some bargaining going on? TCD email was hosted by gmail when I was there, and I see someone mentioned it can't be used. Whereas the IT is microsoft. Anyone know who NUIM/UCC/UCD are with?

TheDriver

KCAccidental wrote: »

did you buy one of the cheap tablets?

Ah that's it

AmilcarAlho

DIT working, will try the upgrade to unlimited later. Thanks OP

KCAccidental

kc90 wrote: »

I assumed everywhere had availed of it, I'm surprised to see so many can't access it. It does work in Ireland though. We had microsoft reps in a few weeks ago doing demonstrations.

I wonder if it has anything to do with the college email provider, there's maybe some bargaining going on? TCD email was hosted by gmail when I was there, and I see someone mentioned it can't be used. Whereas the IT is microsoft. Anyone know who NUIM/UCC/UCD are with?

sounds about right. UCC are with gmail.

uck51js9zml2yt

AmilcarAlho wrote: »

DIT working, will try the upgrade to unlimited later. Thanks OP

I'll be signing up for a course in a few weeks in DIT

Fingleberries

Phew. Glad it's working for some.

Corholio

KCAccidental wrote: »

sounds about right. UCC are with gmail.

This offer won't work with Gmail so?

thegift06

works for me on UCD account

wingnut

Had a look at setting it up for our school but the institution has to pay a per student fee.

ice.cube

Works for NUIG.

creambun

Thank op i got in with the waterford institute login

errlloyd

UCD has had this since September... Just go through this link and you should be able to get everything. I think it launched September 14th, and I paid 70e for it on September 10th...

http://www.ucd.ie/itservices/itsupport/office365/

Mister Robinson

Works for ITB!

ibFoxer

Working with LIT student mail addresses.

TheDriver

will this work with secondary schools email addresses I wonder?

kaizersoze

TheDriver wrote: »

will this work with secondary schools email addresses I wonder?

Do many secondary schools provide students with emails?
None that I know.

Fingleberries

kaizersoze wrote: »

Do many secondary schools provide students with emails?
None that I know.

How about staff? The offer is open to staff also, but I would doubt many secondary schools would have the budget for it.

Supercell

Not working for DIT here

polydactyl

I have office for free from UCD anyway but not the storage I don't think

Rockin

anyone know if it is possible for lets say a NUIG student and their friend to both get licences from the student's account?

TheDriver

kaizersoze wrote: »

Do many secondary schools provide students with emails?
None that I know.

We do, easy out when you have google for education and your own domain name.

Fingleberries

Rockin wrote: »

anyone know if it is possible for lets say a NUIG student and their friend to both get licences from the student's account?

With this offer, you should get to install Office on 5 PCs or Macs. If one of your PCs that you install the software on is one that your friend uses a lot, then cest la vie, eh?

T-Bird

I installed it from my college last year. Have it running on PC, 2 Windows tablets and a mini pc (similar to the tablets but without display). License says that it's only installed on the PC, so still have 4.

The linx tablet came with licence for office, but it's unactivated. Going to wait and see what happens when I finish college this year.

bidiots

At the moment, once you finish college, and you lose your college email address, you will lose this offer.

Fingleberries

Did anyone try to register for the unlimited storage after registering for the Office 365 offer? (https://preview.onedrive.com/)

Did it add you to the waiting list, or give an error?
It can take a couple of weeks for the storage to actually be added - just curious whether it's possible to register for it.

Kevin!

Just tried it, the portal it brings you to requires login with a microsoft account and will not accept a student e-mail that I used to sign up to the 365 promotion.

Fingleberries wrote: »

Did anyone try to register for the unlimited storage after registering for the Office 365 offer? (https://preview.onedrive.com/)

Did it add you to the waiting list, or give an error?
It can take a couple of weeks for the storage to actually be added - just curious whether it's possible to register for it.

bidiots

Its not working with UCC (at the moment anyway :mad:).

bidiots wrote: »

At the moment, once you finish college, and you lose your college email address, you will lose this offer.

When I was in NUIG you lost your email but with UCC you keep your university email for life.

bidiots

UCC gmail/outlook or in house?
Some may allow email for life, some may not. This deal is for students/staff, not sure whether it will work for students for life, doubt it.

Furzy

Corholio wrote: »

This offer won't work with Gmail so?

UCD are gmail and it seems to work with them so doesn't appear to be a gmail issue.

bidiots

bidiots wrote: »

UCC gmail/outlook or in house?
Some may allow email for life, some may not. This deal is for students/staff, not sure whether it will work for students for life, doubt it.

UCC student email is gmail, UCC staff is in house. I have both and neither work.

Rockin

Melany Wailing Pellet wrote: »

UCC student email is gmail, UCC staff is in house. I have both and neither work.

Anyone know if it's working for UCC students now?

Rockin

Rockin wrote: »

Anyone know if it's working for UCC students now?

Not working with my student email address anyway.