I wasn’t sure what the best sub to post this in would be, but I wanted to get the word out! My wife is a teacher and is required to have Microsoft Office on her laptop. We bought her a new laptop for the school year and, while at Best Buy, the salesman was telling us that the only way to get Office was through the yearly subscription. I thought that didn’t sound right, so I decided to do some digging. Sure enough, if you go to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/office and have a valid school email address you can get Microsoft Office free, for the duration of your schooling or teaching career!
Hope this helps all the teachers and students out there!
Edit: A few people have also recommended LibreOffice, which is another free program, thought I’d go ahead and provide the link to that as well!
https://www.libreoffice.org/
My campus has all classes going online. There are a bunch of other weird services but as a TA I felt being proactive and making a twitch account to help my students would be best.
I do however want to tutor on twitch as well as the medium is perfect IMO. It’s hard to find an educational channel without a directory for it. Just chatting doesn’t quite cover it
Edit: If twitch wants to get involved and brainstorm with me chemtutortwitch@gmail.com I have so many ideas lol
Edit2: chemtutor is the twitch channel if you are a student there’s a survey I’d love more data for !
I'm repeatedly amazed at how students have a hard time wrapping their heads around the concept of office hours. I tell them repeatedly in class, and I have it in my syllabus: This is a block of time that I am available to meet with students. No appointment necessary, just walk on in. Then every week it's the same thing--my office hours are completely dead. But then of course I'll get a dozen emails from students asking questions, and I'll tell them, "come to my office hours so we can discuss this." And either they won't reply, or they'll reply, "okay, are you available at 1:30 today?" No, I am not. My office hours are available on the syllabus. If I say come to my office hours, I mean come to my office hours. But it's like students don't even see the word "hours" and think I'm saying "come to my office." And of course, if a student is not available during my regularly scheduled office hours, then I'm happy to arrange an alternate meeting time, but it's grating that students don't recognize "office hours" as a designated time that I've set aside for their questions.
Well if you are a university student you are probably facing this problem, but I got two solutions for you.
PS: This tutorial is for beginners like me. Probably users will say a lot of things against ms office, but if you are a student you have to adjust with your local library set doc format, which will be dependent on ms office. So, take a deep breath and lets start.
First option: WPS office. Why? Well, its the one which best suited me in many aspects which are more similar to ms office and doesn't unset the doc format.
Step one: download and stall: https://www.wps.com/
Steps two: open your Linux terminal and type this commands:
sudo su
sudo apt install msttcorefonts
Thats it, your docs will probably be very similar to office ms. But if you still have some problems, see the seccond option. If you need more help on these steps check this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3R58a0cg0Y
Seccond option: Office 365 online.
Why? Well, it`s free for students and you will have no problems at all with unset formats. Even better, your documents will always be on cloud, so its always saved for you. Believe me, you can adapt to use office on your browser and having everything on cloud is safe from losing it on crashed pendrives. Lets start:
Step one: Make an institutional email on your educational institution. You will need it to prove that you are an actual student.
Step two: put your institutional student email and log in with it to this ms link: https://www.microsoft.com/pt-br/education/students
step three: Wait for ms office email you, normally it took less than 24 hours.
Well, it's simple, but these simple steps took me from fully migrating to Linux for almost a year when I finally discovered all these possibilities. I wish it help you someway.
Cya
(You'll likely find that there are very few messages that can't wait 1 more hour for a response.)
EDIT: the word is "monopolize." I feel really dumb for forgetting it lol.
- Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US:
~$1000 USD (in the us) but this flexible
- Are you open to refurbs/used?
No - How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life?
performance->build quality->battery life, 2 in 1 is unnecessary - How important is weight and thinness to you?
Lighter/thinner is a plus since I bring to and from school, but not a deal breaker - Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A.
~15 inches - Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run.
No gaming. Will be photo editing, bioinformatics and data analysis software eg IPA, graphpad - If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want?
not gaming - Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)?
num pad, backlit keyboard, enough usb slots (usually use a second monitor, flashdrive, and phone charger), touch screen is a plus - Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.
I tend to open a lot of tabs and windows when doing work/looking at different journal articles/making presentations/having netflix on on a separate monitor so something that can handle that would be great since that's the problem with my current laptop (hp envy x360). so probably want an ssd too.
Thank you!! :)
It seems like Warren's students are really cool elected officials (*cough* Katie Porter *cough*). Who else is in office or running for office?
Just sharing this for all the new students that might have missed it in the flood of new information. I personally like using OneDrive for PC to back up all my stuff, but our Google Drive storage is also unlimited sooooo just don't lose your stuff!
https://it.cornell.edu/software-licensing/licensed-software-students
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was struggling to complete an assignment on the mac numbers app and learned that rutgers students can get microsoft office for freeeeeee !!!
https://oit-nb.rutgers.edu/node/460
sorry in advance if this is common knowledge but i thought i'd share just in case
Yikes!
You got caught ditching! (High schooler)
All you need is to go to the link below and use the email address with your school to get free access to Microsoft Office programs plus other useful tools!
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/office
I don’t work at Microsoft- I am a teacher. I found out a year ago that the entire Microsoft suite is free with a valid school email. Cheers! Microsoft office for schools
Am I the only one that seriously didn't know that Microsoft office 365 is free for students using both windows and Mac. All you have to do is go to www.office.com type your KSU email and password and install it.
