Eligible staff can download popular Office programs to their personal devices thanks to a new agreement between the University and Microsoft.
The agreement allows more than 10,000 members of staff to download Office 365 ProPlus – a package of popular programs including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher and Outlook – to their personal devices.
The applications can be downloaded at no cost and installed on up to five personal desktop or laptop computers, five tablets and five smartphones (15 devices in total) through the University’s Enrolment for Education Solutions Agreement with Microsoft. The software will be available for the duration of people’s employment, after which they will have ‘read only’ access to files - unless they choose to purchase their own Microsoft licence to continue using the software.
Staff also have access to OneDrive for Business through the arrangement, providing them with one terabyte of online storage for their personal files on the Microsoft cloud.
Office 365 ProPlus is available to all University staff who are paid through CHRIS or CUFS and work for more than 200 hours per year, except for staff whose computing services are supplied by the Clinical School Computing Service or the Judge Business School, who already have access to Office 365 ProPlus through their own pre-existing departmental arrangements.
Staff can find out if they are eligible for the software on the University Information Services (UIS) website, where they can also find instructions on how to download the software.
Those who require Microsoft Office 2016 on their work computers can download Windows and Mac versions of the software at no cost from the University’s software distribution catalogue.