Office 365 Upgrade for my.anokaramsey.edu
Starting Wednesday August 7th,
the my.anokaramsey.edu email system will be upgraded
from Live@Edu to
Microsoft Office 365. The upgrade process is
expected to take 5 to 7 days. You will still
have access to your email account during the upgrade
process, but email passwords will not be updated
until the upgrade is finished.
Office 365 for
Education Features
Office 365 for education
includes email, instant
messaging, group video and voice chat, and online
document viewing and editing.
With Office 365, students, faculty, and staff can
access the same great Office 365 tools that
businesses around the world use every day including:
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Email and
calendars
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Cloud-based
email and calendars
powered by Microsoft
Exchange Online
using your domain
name.
25 GB storage
per user
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Web
conferencing
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Rich online
meetings with audio
and video, desktop
sharing, and virtual
whiteboard.
Excellent for
distance learning
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Office Web
Apps
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Create and
edit Microsoft Word,
Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft
PowerPoint, and
Microsoft OneNote
documents using your
favorite web
browser.
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Tour Office 365 Features
With Office 365, you will
now have two separate accounts:
1. Office 365 account.
Email.
You will continue to use Microsoft Outlook Web App
or Microsoft Outlook to view and send email from
your school account, but you will sign in at
http://webmail.my.anokaramsey.edu or
http://mail.office365.com using the same
user name and password.
File sharing.
Office 365 uses Microsoft SharePoint Online for
sharing files and Microsoft Office Web Apps for
creating and reading documents.
Instant messaging and
online meetings. Office 365 uses
Microsoft Lync Online for both instant messaging and
online meetings.
2. Personal Microsoft account.
This personal account will give you access to all
existing SkyDrive content, Messenger, and other
Microsoft services. You will use the same user name
and password that was used to access Live@edu. Note
that Anoka-Ramsey Community College no longer
administers this account. As a result, we cannot
reset the password for you. Use
https://account.live.com/ResetPassword.aspx
to reset the password for your personal account
after the upgrade.
Sign into SkyDrive using your
Live@edu user name and password
Bookmark SkyDrive:
https://skydrive.live.com
If you use Internet Explorer
7 or earlier, you will need to upgrade to a newer
version of Internet Explorer.
IIf you use Microsoft Outlook
to read your email and use Microsoft Office 2003 or
earlier, you will need to upgrade to Outlook 2007 or
later to continue using Outlook.
For more information about
the upgrade, see the
Checklist for students.
If you have questions or
need help, contact the IT Helpdesk at
it.helpdesk@anokaramsey.edu or 763-433-1510.
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