Office 365

Office 365 is Microsoft’s latest web-based email and collaboration suite. With Office 365, students, faculty, and staff can access the same great tools that businesses around the world use every day to stay productive and on top of their work.  

• 50GB Email storage   
• You will continue to use Microsoft Outlook Web App or Microsoft Outlook to view and send mail
• From within the myUSD portal, you can use the Email channel to read your email
• Office 365 allows students and faculty to easily share documents and use other collaboration tools
• With Office 365 email, users receive advanced features like mobile access on devices such as the iPhone, iPad, Android and other popular smartphones
• Collaborate Anywhere Anytime: 
  • With Office 365, users get web-enabled access to email, documents, contacts, and calendars regardless of whichever device or browser they use. This accessibility enables unified collaboration
• Stay Up and Running ALWAYS: 
  • By running your applications in the cloud and storing your data there, too, you’ll ensure all your business documents and applications, such as email, will always be available
• Security: 
  • Office 365 has built-in security and continuous compliance. You always know where your data is and who has access to it. 
• Get Organized: 
  • When you use Office 365, email, calendar and contacts are all synchronized. You can also access the same data from any device or save a document on your PC and continue working on it on your smartphone or tablet.
• Real-time Collaboration: 
  • Teams can collaborate with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Users can see real-time edits or additions their colleagues are making to a document. It also saves each version automatically, so you can revert to older versions easily. This ensures a quicker and simpler collaboration between employees and departments, resulting in improved productivity.
• Intelligent writing assistance:
  • Write with confidence across documents, email, and the web. With features that help strengthen your spelling, grammar, and style, let Microsoft Editor be your intelligent writing assistant.

Students, Faculty and Staff

This service is available at no cost.

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