Microsoft 365 for Education is a suite of cloud-based applications and collaboration tools that are free of charge to most students and staff at the University.
What you get
How to access it
Log into office.com using your University Microsoft account.
Username: [Your CRSid]@cam.ac.uk
Password: Your University account password (formerly called Raven)
Students
All students of the University have access to these tools free of charge.
Staff
All staff at the University are covered under the University's Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES) agreement except those in the following institutions, which have their own separate agreement with Microsoft:
- Cambridge Assessment/Press
- Cambridge Enterprise
- Clinical School of Medicine
- The Judge Business School
- Theological Colleges
- Christ's College
- Churchill College
- Clare College
- Corpus Christi College
- Downing College
- Emmanuel College
- Gonville & Caius College
- Hughes Hall
- Jesus College
- King's College
- Lucy Cavendish College
- Murray Edwards College
- Pembroke College
- Peterhouse
- Sidney Sussex College
- St John's College
- Trinity College
- Trinity Hall
- Wolfson College
If you work in one of these institutions, please contact your local IT support to find out how to access the tools available to you.
Types of Office 365 licence
The 3 levels of Microsoft licence give varying access to Microsoft software and varying storage quotas.
Office 365 bolt-ons
Some Microsoft 365 products are costed extras to the standard Microsoft Office EES licence. This includes:
- CoPilot
- Power Platform (Including PowerBI)
- Project
- Teams Room
- Visio
- Visual Studio
We keep a small supply of these licences for immediate issue to users.
The CHEST Software Subscriptions Fund will no longer cover these additional licenses. Institutions must now bear the cost. The annual costs for the most popular products are:
- Clipchamp Standard: £33.12
- Clipchamp Premium: £76.84
- CoPilot: £354.96
- Planner & Project Plan 3: £60.34
- Planner & Project Plan 5: £110.59
- Power Apps Plan 1(Single App per user): £41.47
- Power Apps User Plan (Single user unlimited apps): £94.75
- Power Automate Premium: £88.70
- Power BI Pro (Per user): £22.61 - PowerBI Pro is included in the A5 license bundle
- Power BI Premium (Per user uplift over Pro): £24.05
- Teams Premium (Per Meeting Organiser): £21.46
- Visio Plan 1 (Online client only): £10.80
- Visio Plan 2 (Full-fat client): £23.62
- Visual Studio Pro: £60.91
If you want to order any of the above, please complete a Microsoft 365 bolt-on service request.
Getting help
Microsoft has a training centre for all the relevant apps and services.
For enrollment-related issues, please contact the UIS Service Desk.