

Office Online provides WAI-ARIA support for assistive technologies (WAI-ARIA stands for Web Accessibility Initiative-Accessible Rich Internet Applications). You can also use the browser controls to zoom, to change text size, and to control screen colors. However, all the keyboard shortcuts and other accessibility features that you know from the browser work in Office Online. For example, keyboard shortcuts might not be the same and the page layouts are different. This makes its accessibility features work a little differently than Office desktop programs. Please note that student email will remain on Gmail at this time. The University is not taking any existing service offline as a result of bringing Microsoft Office 365 for OSU online. The University is not requiring any employee to use any Office 365 service. Please refer to the security policy on what specific information may be stored. The offered Office 365 Apps are covered under an agreement with Microsoft, so you may use these apps to store University data and conduct University business. The version of Office that students can download from Office 365 is Office 2016 Pro Plus. Office 365 is the name for a suite of online collaboration services, and is not a new version of Office.


Office 365 for students includes: five (5) free licenses to download and install Office, Office Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive. All these services are included in the current contract for no additional charge. Office 365 for Education is free for Students OSU is not paying Microsoft beyond our standard annual campus license agreement. Office Online provides the ability to create, edit and collaborate real-time on documents in native Office formats within a web browser, without having to convert the files. OneDrive is particularly exciting as it offers 1TB of online storage. Share your documents easily via email, web, blogs, and OneDrive.
