Description: Microsoft available free for students / staff
How LCC Students and Staff Can get Microsoft Office 365 for Free
Lane Community College students and staff can install a Microsoft Office 365 package for free using their LCC student/staff email. If you have activated your LCC email, use these instructions to set it up.
This package includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and OneNote. Outlook, Access and Publisher are also available if you click on the “other installs” link when you are at the installation page. Microsoft Office is no longer available at the Titan Store.
You are allowed 5 installs on personal desktop or laptop computers, tablets and smartphones. Supported operating systems include Windows 7 or later, Mac Os, Android, and IOs (Iphones). To verify that your computer or mobile device will work with Office 365, make sure it meets the system requirements.
The license for the free student version of Office 365 is valid for 4 terms after the last term you took credit classes at Lane Community College.
Downloading and installing Microsoft Office requires using your student/staff Microsoft Office account and then choosing and installing the software package that best fits your needs and the operating system on your computer or mobile device. Not all Microsoft applications will be available for all operating systems.
Accessing your Student or Staff Microsoft Office Account
1. Go to Office in Education
2. Enter your LCC email address (hint: It's the email address ending in lanecc.edu that you claimed in ExpressLane)
3. Press the green bar labeled Get Started
4. Press I'm a Student / Teacher
5. There will be a wait while Microsoft checks that the email address belongs to an approved school
Choosing and Installing the Software Package
1. The first screen after you set up the Microsoft account asks you to provide names for collaboration - you may press skip at the bottom
2. The next screen describes uses of Office 365 - press the arrow to the right to scroll through
3. You will now be at the install screen
4. Some things to consider before pressing the install button at the install screen:
- The standard install includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote
- The full install includes Access, Publisher and Outlook as well as Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote and is available if you press the Other installs link
- Not all applications will be available for all computer or mobile device operating systems. For example, MS Access is not available on Mac Os.
5. Decide which set of applications works best for your needs and operating system, then press the appropriate installer. The installer will download and install your software.
6. To learn more about using Microsoft Office 365, you can browse the Microsoft Office Tutorials page.
Changes to your Microsoft Office account using your LCC email address
Only accounts activated using an LCC email address (lanecc.edu) before March 2020 are affected. Other Microsoft accounts (accounts that don’t use your LCC email address) have not changed.
Your Microsoft Office 365 account has been renamed because of a licensing change at Microsoft.
Your renamed account can be accessed by logging in at https://office.com using your user name and a new domain suffix “@ExpressLanecc.onmicrosoft.com”.
For example, if you login using me@my.lanecc.edu you can login to the renamed account using me@ExpressLanecc.onmicrosoft.com.
We recommend that after logging in to the renamed account you share your existing content with your LCC account (me@my.lanecc.edu).
Below are links to Microsoft help on sharing the content from your renamed account with your LCC account.
OneDrive
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/share-onedrive-files-and-folders-9fcc2f7d-de0c-4cec-93b0-a82024800c07
SharePoint
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/share-documents-or-folders-in-sharepoint-server-5eec8604-e9d7-4f84-bee5-1c7d8e048d8c
Teams
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/share-content-in-a-meeting-in-teams-fcc2bf59-aecd-4481-8f99-ce55dd836ce8
Calendar
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/share-an-outlook-calendar-with-other-people-353ed2c1-3ec5-449d-8c73-6931a0adab88
More Details
Microsoft recently changed the licensing requirements for free Office 365 education accounts. This includes changes to the requirements for obtaining a free Office 365 account using your LCC email address and changes to accounts that were previously activated using an LCC email address. Microsoft’s new licensing terms require that LCC pre-register all email addresses in our Office 365 management portal before those addresses can utilize a free Office 365 Account.
Because of this change, everyone at LCC who had registered for a free Office 365 account using their LCC email address (lanecc.edu) prior to March 2020 has had their account renamed. This renamed account utilizes a generic Microsoft address (me@ExpressLanecc.onmicrosoft.com).
In order to retrieve your existing content (OneDrive, calendar, SharePoint, Teams, Tools, and applications) you must login in to the renamed account and move your content to your new LCC managed account. After the content has been transferred you should plan on abandoning the renamed account and accessing the account using your LCC email address.