Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud solutions portal, has been made available to our university staff through a corporate agreement. You may access the Office 365 portal using your iku.edu.tr email address and UniPass password. The portal can be accessed via login.microsoftonline.com or via the Office 365 link available at login.iku.edu.tr.

• Office Online: Allows you to use core Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) through an internet browser without installing the desktop software.
• Sway: A web-based presentation creation application.
• OneDrive: 100 GB cloud storage space.
• Forms: An application for creating quick and practical quizzes, surveys, and registration forms.
• Microsoft Flow: Enables workflow automation, synchronization, and notification sharing between frequently used apps, applications, and web services.
• Planner: A project management application that helps individuals or teams plan, coordinate, and track their projects and tasks.
• Power BI: A business intelligence solution.
• Teams: A collaboration platform. Staff members can create teams, integrate Office 365 applications, and build shared workspaces, which can be further enhanced using Flow.
• Mail, Calendar, Tasks: These are standard features available within Outlook. Since our institutional email service is not provided in the cloud environment, these features must be accessed through Outlook rather than the Office 365 portal.

As part of a global licensing policy change implemented by Microsoft for educational institutions worldwide, updates have been made to the Microsoft 365 Education licenses used at our university.

In line with this change, the license type previously provided to student accounts—which allowed the installation of desktop Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) on personal computers—has been discontinued by Microsoft.

Therefore, students who previously installed Office applications under the Microsoft 365 Education license will now be able to access these applications only via a web browser.

We would like to emphasize that this regulation results from Microsoft’s global licensing policy change and is not a decision made by our university.