Microsoft 365 is an online suite of applications which includes office productivity, email, file storage, collaboration tools, and other specialist applications. It also allows University of Otago staff and students to download Office applications (including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) to both their work and their personally owned computers.
Staff and students have access to the following Microsoft 365 applications:
- Microsoft Office tools: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Publisher
- Microsoft Teams: a collaborative personal workspace that includes videoconferencing and instant messaging communication
- OneDrive: 100GB of online storage
When using Microsoft applications, off-campus users will need to verify their identity using multifactor authentication.
Further information
Guidance For Data Storage Locations (PDF 207KB)
Guidance For Classifying Information and Data at the University of Otago (PDF 458KB)
Multifactor authentication (MFA)