
With access to the same professional applications used outside of Penn State, students can prepare for the future by developing the digital fluency skills needed for successful careers. The wide range of Office 365 tools make it easy to boost productivity in the classroom and workplace. With many companies outside of Penn State preferring Office 365 for their own email, writing, and design needs, the University’s move to Office 365 will allow all University members to expand communication with businesses, researchers, and others outside of Penn State. Applications including Yammer, Teams, and Video provide more opportunities for communication through online chats or video conferencing. Office 365 includes fifteen plus applications with a similar look and feel meaning Penn Staters will not have to learn new software to work together.

With more than fifteen applications-including the Microsoft Office Suite products you’re familiar with-you have more ways to unleash your productivity than ever before.īy connecting Penn State through one system, students, faculty, and staff members will be able to seamlessly explore new ideas, share projects, join conversations, and gather information between campuses. Through Office 365, you can seamlessly schedule meetings, create and share documents, and collaborate in one secure and consistent platform. Afterward, anything not backed up will be lost permanently.Microsoft Office 365 empowers you to create, collaborate, and innovate through a host of email, calendaring, and premier applications that can be accessed from anywhere in the world, at any time, on any device. Please contact Penn State IT to facilitate any data retrievals. Microsoft can retrieve data from these accounts within 30 days after access has expired. We encourage anyone who is leaving the University to backup all files previously saved in these applications to avoid losing their data. These access limitations are being implemented to help Penn State IT to ensure compliance with our Microsoft contract.

See the "I’m Leaving or Have Left the University" section at for more details.) (When your Access Account expires depends upon your affiliation. You will continue to have access to your Outlook Web Access and your inbox until your Penn State Access Account expires. Students, faculty, or staff that leave Penn State will lose access to all work and files saved in applications like Teams, OneNote, OneDrive, SharePoint and all other Office 365 apps other than Outlook Web Access 14 days after their departure.
