
Microsoft Office 2021 comes in two flavors: Office Home and Student 2021 and Office Home and Business 2021. This is under review and any changes will be documented on this page.Microsoft Office 2021 (Image credit: Microsoft) Pricing and availability

Some Office 365 services, such as Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, Skype, and others are not enabled as they duplicate services available via the campus standard Google services.Īs of Winter 2022 we cannot enable Office Add-ins for UCSC Office accounts at this time due to a combination of technical and policy/standards reasons. If you need to store and share data, please contact the Support Center to find out more about Google Apps or other secure file-sharing services. ITS does not enable Office 365 online services, including OneDrive, for faculty and staff. Student access is provided by Microsoft facilitated by ITS. Office 365 is provided to all active faculty & staff at no cost via a campus funded site license.


Office 20 users can use Office without signing in, but sign in will enable more functionality.

University-Owned Computers ITS will continue to provide/install Office when setting up new computers, by request, and via local self-service options (BigFix & Jamf Pro).OneDrive cloud storage is not enabled for faculty and staff UCSC uses Google Apps for email, calendar, and cloud file storage.Students can access Microsoft’s cloud services (including cloud storage through OneDrive).Students, Faculty, and Staff can install Office 365 software on up to 5 computers, 5 phones and 5 tablets.New student Office 365 accounts activate at the start of the academic quarter.
