EligibilityĪll UCSC students, faculty, and staff are eligible to use Office 365. Campus support is provided Monday-Friday, 8AM to 5PM through the ITS Support Center. If the sign in page loops back to sign-in, please reset your Gold password here: CruzID Manager.Use your CruzID Gold account and password.Office 365 requires user sign in to activate the software.Personally-Owned Computers The Office 365 portal provides access to software downloads of the Office 365 product suite for self-installs. Use CruzID Gold to sign into the portal - select Work/School account if prompted.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.
