About Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 is the contemporary way that Microsoft delivers the traditional Microsoft Office Products and a number of new collaboration and productivity solutions. With an Microsoft 365 subscription, we receive the latest Office apps—both the desktop and the online versions—and updates when they happen. And it's on all your devices - on your desktop, on your tablet, and on your phone.
You can access Microsoft 365 from anywhere at portal.office.com. As a member of the University, the Office application suite is also free to download on up to five devices using your UVID and password.
Outlook
Microsoft Outlook is an application used in conjunction with Exchange Online, the hosted email service from Microsoft, to provide email and calendaring functionality to faculty, students, and staff. Outlook enables Loyola University Chicago users to securely access email messages through a desktop application, mobile app, and web browser.
Forms
Microsoft Forms allows your users to quickly and easily create custom quizzes, surveys, questionnaires, registrations and more. When you create a quiz or form, you can invite others to respond to it using any web browser, even on mobile devices. As results are submitted, you can use built-in analytics to evaluate responses. Form data, such as quiz results, can be easily exported to Excel for additional analysis or grading.
SharePoint
SharePoint allows you to share files, knowledge, and manage content. It provides the ability to quickly find information and seamlessly collaborate with others. SharePoint allows you to build intranet sites and create pages, document libraries, and create lists. Manage your daily routine with workflows, forms, and lists.
Teams
Teams is a user-driven chat-based collaborative tool that provides a customizable teamwork space. As Teams is built on Office 365 Groups, whenever you create a team, it automatically comes with several additional Office 365 shared features: email, calendar, notebook with OneNote, file storage with OneDrive, Planner, SharePoint site and allows for chat and audio/video conferencing among team members.
Microsoft 365 is the contemporary way that Microsoft delivers the traditional Microsoft Office Products and a number of new collaboration and productivity solutions. With an Microsoft 365 subscription, we receive the latest Office apps—both the desktop and the online versions—and updates when they happen. And it's on all your devices - on your desktop, on your tablet, and on your phone.
You can access Microsoft 365 from anywhere at portal.office.com. As a member of the University, the Office application suite is also free to download on up to five devices using your UVID and password.
Excel
Excel offers the ability to organize and manipulate data in spreadsheets with sorting, calculations, graphing tools, pivot tables, and macros.
OneNote
OneNote provides a place to host notes, drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries and the ability to collaborate with others on these files.
Outlook
Microsoft Outlook is an application used in conjunction with Exchange Online, the hosted email service from Microsoft, to provide email and calendaring functionality to faculty, students, and staff. Outlook enables Loyola University Chicago users to securely access email messages through a desktop application, mobile app, and web browser.
Powerpoint
With PowerPoint, you can create presentations with images, videos, animation, and formatted text with templates or custom slide themes.
Word
Word is a word processing application in which you can format text, insert images and tables, and layout documents.
Forms
Microsoft Forms allows your users to quickly and easily create custom quizzes, surveys, questionnaires, registrations and more. When you create a quiz or form, you can invite others to respond to it using any web browser, even on mobile devices. As results are submitted, you can use built-in analytics to evaluate responses. Form data, such as quiz results, can be easily exported to Excel for additional analysis or grading.
Power Automate
Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Flow) is a service for automating workflows across a growing number of cloud applications without coding.
Delve
Use Delve to manage your Office 365 profile, and to discover and organize the information across Microsoft 365. Delve never changes any permissions, so you will only see documents that you already have access to. Other people will not see your private documents.
SharePoint
SharePoint allows you to share files, knowledge, and manage content. It provides the ability to quickly find information and seamlessly collaborate with others. SharePoint allows you to build intranet sites and create pages, document libraries, and create lists. Manage your daily routine with workflows, forms, and lists.
Teams
Teams is a user-driven chat-based collaborative tool that provides a customizable teamwork space. As Teams is built on Office 365 Groups, whenever you create a team, it automatically comes with several additional Office 365 shared features: email, calendar, notebook with OneNote, file storage with OneDrive, Planner, SharePoint site and allows for chat and audio/video conferencing among team members.
Zoom
While not part of Microsoft Office 365, Zoom is Loyola’s official video and voice conferencing solution. There are also plugins for many of the Office products which help integrate Zoom’s capabilities directly into those applications.
OneDrive
OneDrive gives you one place to store, share, and sync your work or school files. As part of the Loyola University Chicago Microsoft 365 service offering, you get 5 TB of storage and you can save your files in OneDrive and then work with them from almost any device.