Office 365 free for teachers

monaghanmissus

Hi, I was of the opinion from here that teachers and students are entitled to Microsoft Office free. Great. However I'm having trouble downloading and installing the software and I'm not sure what the problem is. Has anyone made use of this offer before?

gctest50

You could try libreoffice :


https://www.libreoffice.org/

Victor

Is your school registered with them? Do you have a school email address?

monaghanmissus

Hi gctest, I wasn’t aware of that before, I must have a look into it.

Victor, I have a school email address which I’ve used to sign up. We don’t use it in school if that’s what you’re asking?

evolving_doors

Tis the devils work.
Google stuff is better.

verycool

evolving_doors wrote: »

Tis the devils work.
Google stuff is better.

I think that's the "between a rock and a hard place" argument! :pac:


Double check the FAQ at the bottom of this page;


https://products.office.com/en/student/office-in-education

gctest50

verycool wrote: »

I think that's the "between a rock and a hard place" argument! :pac:


Double check the FAQ at the bottom of this page;


https://products.office.com/en/student/office-in-education

They're worse than drug dealers - here, have some stuff - we charge everyone else but you get it for free

RHJ

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monaghanmissus

Ah lads I couldn't be without MS Word :pac:

evolving_doors

'office'
Nuf said

Postgrad10

Somebody working during the holidays. Tut tut.

monaghanmissus

Wishful thinking Postgrad :pac: Just trying to access Word but having no luck

Postgrad10

Currently using word to type something myself, and it's not for school ( for a change:)

TheDriver

monaghanmissus wrote: »

Hi gctest, I wasn’t aware of that before, I must have a look into it.

Victor, I have a school email address which I’ve used to sign up. We don’t use it in school if that’s what you’re asking?

Is your school email address "mrsmurphyteacher@gmail.com" or jmurphy@holyghostschool.ie?
Having an email address for school purposes but on a private/free system isn't accepted as a school email address by most companies.

monaghanmissus

TheDriver wrote: »

Is your school email address "mrsmurphyteacher@gmail.com" or jmurphy@holyghostschool.ie?
Having an email address for school purposes but on a private/free system isn't accepted as a school email address by most companies.

No it’s teacher@school.ie which is why I can’t figure out why it’s not working. Not sure if the fact that I’m using a Mac is part of the problem?

RHJ

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gctest50

monaghanmissus wrote: »

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. Not sure if the fact that I’m using a Mac is part of the problem?

This will let you get on with it in the meantime :


https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/?type=mac-x86_64&version=6.0




being a mac you can just uninstall it again easily without having to sell your soul or smth

spurious

I just use Open Office and save as .doc.

killbillvol2

I think it's only "free" if your school has a MS account.

monaghanmissus

killbillvol2 wrote: »

I think it's only "free" if your school has a MS account.

Ah! Therein lies my problem! Thanks!

Heebie

Microsoft (and probably Google, too) offer educators their online office products gratis, because they can mine all kinds of useful information about teachers and students from the data you store on they're servers.
M$ is an evil company. Always has been, always will.

Get Librroffice instead. It runs locally on your own computer, and you can encrypt any data you "upload to the cloud" for backup purposes so it doesn't automatically strip you and your students of privacy and turn all of you into consumers to be sold to rather than office software users.

Victor

Heebie wrote: »

Microsoft (and probably Google, too) offer educators their online office products gratis, because they can mine all kinds of useful information about teachers and students from the data you store on they're servers.
M$ is an evil company. Always has been, always will.

Just don't upload stuff.

evolving_doors

Victor wrote: »

Just don't upload stuff.

Just using email is uploading stuff.
It's all moving to cloud based storage anyhow.
But I suppose there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Is it ok to use meta data without GDPR consent?

verycool

Jaysis, I thought MY tinfoil hat was bad! :pac:

For those of you complaining about M$ or Google, do you still have a Twitter or Facebook account? Even LinkedIn? Because if this is the case, I wouldn't say you're in a great position to argue privacy policies / personal data protection.

Do you use Firefox instead of Chrome? Tor? VPN?
Do you use password managers and 2FA?
Do you use an adblocker (ublock origin) / decentraleyes / privacy possum / https everywhere / multi account container addons?

I think we're I'm getting away from the point here.

I know certain third level institutions like Trinity use Google as their backend, whereas Maynooth use Office 365.

You can still create an office account and use the web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Albeit with limited functionality (for example, you can't create a multi column document in Word Online).

EDIT: If you still want Office functionality / compatibility you can download and install Libre Office (which can read, edit and save files in .docx .xlsx .pptx formats).

https://www.libreoffice.org/

monaghanmissus

verycool wrote: »

I know certain third level institutions like Trinity use Google as their backend, whereas Maynooth use Office 365.

You can still create an office account and use the web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Albeit with limited functionality (for example, you can't create a multi column document in Word Online).

EDIT: If you still want Office functionality / compatibility you can download and install Libre Office (which can read, edit and save files in .docx .xlsx .pptx formats).

https://www.libreoffice.org/

THanks for the reply! My school doesn’t use MS so don’t think I’ll be entitled to the free version and I’m not a huge fan of their online versions. I’ll have a look at some of the free programs mentioned here, cheers!

Heebie

Victor wrote:

Just don't upload stuff.

I'd you edit it with office 365, they have a copy of every revision.

spurious

monaghanmissus wrote: »

THanks for the reply! My school doesn’t use MS so don’t think I’ll be entitled to the free version and I’m not a huge fan of their online versions. I’ll have a look at some of the free programs mentioned here, cheers!

Really, you won't notice any difference (unless you are a very advanced user) between Libreoffice, Open Office and Office.
You will wonder why anyone bothers paying.

https://www.howtogeek.com/187663/openoffice-vs.-libreoffice-whats-the-difference-and-which-should-you-use/