Microsoft 365 (former Office 365)
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Microsoft 365 is a collective work environment that provides versatile tools as a cloud service. You can use M365 service independently or by utilizing several tools in teaching and studying. Most tools are also available as a desktop apps.
How to login to M365
Go to HAMK web page www.hamk.fi -> Then go to the bottom of the front page and click “Log in to m365-services”. A login window opens where you sign in with your HAMK username and password. Write “User Name” in following format:
- Students: username@student.hamk.fi
- Staff: username@hamk.fi
After login you can use all M365 online services (Outlook, Calender, OneDrive, Viva Engage etc.), found in the app menu.
HAMK’s M365 services
You can navigate easily to services mentioned above through app menu, top left corner.
- Bookings: a personal booking page where others can schedule one-on-one meetings with you.
- Delve helps you discover the information that’s likely to be most interesting to you right now – across M365. Delve also lets you view your colleagues’ profiles, or edit your own.
- Forms is an easy way to create quizzes or questionnaires.
- Loop: a platform for organizing work
- Office Online is a collection of tools that you can use through your Web browser. Apps include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote Online -tools.
- OneDrive for Business is personal online storage space.
- OneNote is for digital notes
- Outlook WebApp and calendar in online versions.
- Planner helps you to manage your and our team’s tasks.
- SharePoint is a place for informative intranet sites and workspaces.
- Sway is a rich content creation tool.
- Teams is a new platform for teamwork.
- To Do. Use your Tasks folder to keep track of things that you need to do but don’t necessarily want to put on your calendar.
- Viva Engage is a social conversation, messaging and networking platform.
- Whiteboard: digital canvas
Microsoft 365 Mobile App
You can use M365 applications easily with your mobile phone. See more from Microsoft Support for Mobile app.
Microsoft Office Online
Most Microsoft Office tools, such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, can be used both as online versions in a browser and as desktop applications (for HAMK staff).
You can find instructions for using these programs in HAMK’s Digipeda guidelines as well as on Microsoft’s official website
- All quidelines for M356 (Digipedaohjeet)
- Word help & learning (Microsoft)
- PowerPoint help & learning (Microsoft)
- Excel help & learning (Microsoft)
Data protection of M365 services
A lot of information about the data protection of M365 services can be found in Microsoft’s page M365 – Trust Center.
Microsoft tells that the data centres of M365 cloud services for Europeans are located in Ireland and in the Netherlands (see Where is my data?). The details and email addresses needed in user authentication are stored in US data centres. Malware screenings for email can also be carried out in the US data centres (for load balancing).