Office 365: Online Access

Office Outlook Word Excel Access Online Email Student Employee

Access to Microsoft Office is only available to current Columbus State Students and Employees. When you are no longer enrolled in CSCC courses or stop receiving a CSCC paycheck, the Office 365 applications installed on your device become inactive

Access Office 365

You can also install Microsoft Office 365 on a Personal Computer.

Open a web browser, such as Chrome or Firefox
Navigate to https://portal.office.com
Once you are on the Sign in screen, log in using your email address and password (same password that you use for CougarWeb and Blackboard)

Student - username@student.cscc.edu
Employee - username@cscc.edu

Click the Office application icon that meets your needs on the left side of the screen. If you don't see what you're looking for there, click the All Apps icon on the bottom left.

Word: document creation
Excel: spreadsheets and calculations
PowerPoint: presentations
Outlook: office email and appointment scheduling
OneDrive: file storage and collaboration

View of the Office 365 portal with links to Outlook, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint, Teams, and more

Switching between Apps

In any Office 365 application, click on the Waffle icon () on the top left corner of the screen:
Click the Office Application link that you wish to switch to