Microsoft 365 Quick Start Guide for Students

UFV students have access to Microsoft 365 (M365) including familiar productivity and collaboration tools such as Exchange Online, OneDrive, MS Teams, and Online Productivity Suite applications shown below.

ONLY eligible students will be provided with an M365 account for Email, MS Teams, and the MS Productivity Suite.  To be eligible, you must have been registered for a course in the last 3 semesters.

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Microsoft apps

M365 for Students provides students with a more robust set of tools, enhancing their remote learning experiences and creating more collaborative opportunities. The article is divided into the following sections:

M365 applications download and login

 Email on M365 - Outlook

 Training resources for M365 applications

 

M365 applications download and login

Download M365 applications

Students can access M365 Online Productivity suite application on the office web portal and also download M365 applications - Outlook, OneDrive, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Access (available for PC only) and  Publisher (available for PC only). For information on how to download applications on your PC check this Knowledge Base article - How to download and sign in to Microsoft 365 applications.

Using M365 Online productivity suite applications on the office web portal might be limited in features. For more advanced features, the downloaded version should be used.
Find out the
difference between using the application on the web portal and desktop application here on Microsoft web page.

The list of M365 applications available for students:

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Microsoft apps

Login to M365 applications

Students can access M365 Online Productivity suite applications on the office web portal and also download the M365 applications as shown in the above section. Once downloaded, you can sign in to the applications to start using it on PC. For information on how to login to M365 applications both ways, refer to the following articles:

Login to M365 applications on office web portal
Login to M365 applications downloaded on PC

 

 Email on M365 

UFV provides email services to students through Exchange Online (a cloud-based service that is part of M365). Exchange Online has replaced the previous student email platform, Zimbra. Exchange Online is a more modern platform that is mobile-friendly and provides enhanced cybersecurity and information protection.

  • Accessing UFV email (Students)

Students can access their UFV email (e.g. john.doe@student.ufv.ca) via two methods listed below

ITS only supports the Outlook application or Outlook Web Portal and recommends students to use it to access UFV provided email. More information on how to use the Outlook application here.

 

 Training resources for Microsoft 365 applications

The table below provides a list of useful information and training resources on M365 apps available for UFV Students. Note that many of these links in the table reference content on the Microsoft Office Support site.

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Microsoft 365 General

M365 for Students provides a more robust set of tools, enhancing their experiences and creating more collaborative opportunities.

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Outlook 

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SharePoint 

Microsoft SharePoint is used to create websites. You can use it as a secure place to store, organize, share, and access information from any device.

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MS Planner 

MS Planner provides a collective space for team members to create plans, organize and assign tasks to different users, and to check updates on progress through dashboards

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MS Teams

MS Teams is a collaboration tool that supports collaboration spaces, online meetings, audio, video, and file sharing.

All UFV Students can also create teams in the MS Teams application. Information on how to create and manage teams is linked below:

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OneDrive

OneDrive is Microsoft’s cloud-based file storage service. You can use it to store your files and share them with others; all files stored in OneDrive are private unless you decide to share them. When you use the applications in Microsoft’s Online Productivity Suite (see below), you can save your files in OneDrive, making your work accessible from anywhere and on all your devices.

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MS Project

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Microsoft powerpoint MS PowerPoint

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Microsoft bookings icon Microsoft Bookings

Microsoft forms icon Microsoft Forms

Microsoft Kaizala pro icon Microsoft Kaizala Pro

Microsoft stream icon Microsoft Stream for O365

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Microsoft to-do icon To-Do

Microsoft whiteboard icon Whiteboard

Microsoft yammer for academic icon Yammer for Academic

Microsoft insights by MyAnalytics icon Insights by MyAnalytics

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Microsoft power automate for office 365 icon Power Automate for Office 365

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