Microsoft Office 365 Pro Plus is available to students at the University of Wismar via a campus contract with Micosoft. Please note the following before installation:
- You are purchasing Office 365 Pro Plus, which means you can install your Office on up to 5 different devices (Windows PC, Mac, iPad, Android)
- Your Office version is linked to your university identity and can only be used while you are a registered student at the Universityof Wismar and as long as the University has a valid contract with Microsoft
- Your office installation will be linked to your personal data and your files will possibly be stored in a Microsoft cloud (albeit according to the GDPR)
- The annual fee of 4,99 € is charged for the license management provided by the company DrVis Software GmbH)
- Office 365 Pro Plus includes the following applications:
- Word
- Excel
- Powerpoint
- Outlook
- Onenote
How do I install Office 365 Pro Plus?
1. Open the following website: https://bildung365.de
2. Enter "Wismar" into the search field and select Hochschule Wismar
3. Follow the instructions
Free MS Office alternatives
Please note that there are some good and free alternatives to Microsoft Office. We would also like to point out that using MS Office 365 may result in your personal data being stored in a Microsoft cloud.
Application | Purpose | free alternative |
MS Word | Textprocessing | Textmaker (reads and writes MS-docx-Format, free for commercial use, for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS) |
MS Excel | Spreadsheets | Planmaker (reads and writes MS-xlsx-Format, free for commercial use, for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS) |
MS Powerpoint | Presentations | Presentations (reads and writes MS-pptx-Format, free for commercial use, for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS) |
MS Outlook | PIM | eM Client (Emails, Calendar etc., free for non commercial use, Windows and Mac, eM Client is working with the university mail servers - Anleitung hier) |
Adobe Acrobat | PDF-Processing | FlexiPDF Basic (create and process PDFs and Forms, free for commercial use, Windows Version) |
MS OneDrive | Personal Cloudstorage | HS Wismar CampusCloud (works like a DropBox but your data is stored on the servers of the university, client-side encryption also available) |
MS Visio | Creation of diagrams and BPMN-models |
Draw.io Desktopversion (Windows, Mac, Linux) -- Onlineversion reads and writes visio files (vsdx) |