Office 365 access for students, faculty and staff
April 19, 2024
Did you know that the University of Alaska provides all current students and staff
their own license for Office 365?
If you鈥檇 like to claim your license, type portal.office.com into your browser, then
type in your UA email address and click 鈥渘ext鈥.
Then enter your UA password, the same one you use for UAonline, Blackboard, and all our other services. Click
鈥淪ign in鈥 and you鈥檒l now have access to all of the features of Office 365, right from
your preferred browser. Don鈥檛 always have access to the internet? No sweat! Click
the 鈥淚nstall Office鈥 button at the top right corner and then 鈥淥ffice 365 apps鈥 to
download the entire Office 365 package to your computer.
Office 365 contains the popular Office programs, like Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint,
all for free. If you鈥檙e an avid Office user, OIT recommends saving your homework in OneDrive. OneDrive
is a cloud storage service that can hold as much as five terabytes of data, completely
free.