WHAT IS MCL OFFICE 365?
  • Microsoft Office 365 for education will deliver the power of cloud productivity to educational institutions, helping to save time and money while increasing student and faculty productivity. Office 365 for education will combine the familiar Office desktop suite with online versions of Microsoft’s next-generation communications and collaboration services. Office 365 for education will be simple to use and easy to administer—all backed by the robust security and guaranteed reliability you expect from a world-class service provider.
Office 365 Features
  • Email and calendars
    • Students will have access to Outlook Web App with 50GB mailbox per user, and can send attachments up to 25 MB.

  • Web conferencing
    • Host online meetings with audio and video using one-click screen sharing, HD video conferencing, and virtual whiteboard. Excellent for distance learning.

  • Instant messaging
    • Connect with others via instant message and let people know your availability with your online status.

  • File storage and sharing
    • SkyDrive Pro gives users 25 GB of personal storage that syncs with their PC for offline access. Easily share documents with others through Office or SharePoint.

  • Team sites
    • Work together on projects, in study groups, or in clubs with team sites that help keep related documents, notes, tasks, and conversations organized together. Up to 300 subsites.

  • Office Web Apps
    • Create and edit Word, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Excel documents from any modern browser.

  • Mobility
    • Sync email, calendar, and contacts; access SharePoint sites; view and edit Office documents with Office Web Apps using a browser on Windows Phone, iOS, and Android devices.

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Stay connected to your learning community
  • Simplify the way you work together with powerful communication tools.

  • Keep people connected. Connect even more easily with a unified contact card that brings together SharePoint, Facebook, and LinkedIn updates and lets you start an IM, call, or video chat with just a click.

  • Online Document Storage. Provide IT-managed online storage to everyone at your institution with SkyDrive Pro. Store documents in the cloud and share with others—even outside your organization.

  • Hold multi-party meetings. Work together anywhere with conferencing that includes advanced sharing, note taking, and annotations.

  • Help protect your data. Get peace of mind with a 99.9% uptime SLA, continuous data backups, robust disaster recovery capabilities, globally redundant data centers, and no scanning of email or files for advertising.
Experience Office virtually anywhere
  • Provide students, faculty, and staff with the Office applications they know, optimized for their devices, so they can work their best wherever they happen to be.

  • Office Web Apps. Free enhanced Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote Web Apps allow students to work across multiple devices, right from a browser. Multiple users can work on the same document together.

  • Get Office fast. With the new streaming Office, you don't have to wait for Office installs or stop working to receive Office updates. Plus, the new Office can be installed side by side with previous versions of Office.

  • Roaming settings. Your recent documents, settings, and custom dictionaries follow your Microsoft account, so you can quickly pick up where you left off from any device.
Run it the way you want
  • Office 365 provides the flexibility you need to run your educational institution the way that works best for you.

  • Unified admin experience. Easily manage Office 365 services from any browser, while still having advanced PowerShell commands available for automating management tasks.

  • Free up valuable resources. Reduce costs and free up time associated with deployment, maintenance, and management of on-premises servers, providing more time for IT to focus on education-related workloads.

  • Take advantage of new apps. With the new cloud app model you can build scalable, and flexible cloud apps that integrate with users’ documents. The new corporate catalog app helps you manage apps available in your institution.