Your Collin College email is your OFFICIAL Communication tool
With Office 365, students, faculty, and staff can install the latest version of Microsoft Office on up to 5 personally-owned PCs or Macs. They can also access Microsoft Office apps available for iOS and Android devices.
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To access Office 365 applications (including your Outlook email, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) you MUST be logged into your OneLogin app. |
Office 365 at Collin College
Collin Credit students use Microsoft Outlook for email. Your Collin College email is your CougarWeb username@collin.edu. For example, if your name is John Doe and your username is JDoe1, your email will look like this: jdoe1@collin.edu.
To Get Started
1. You will have to install OneLogin to access Collin resources, including Office 365.
2. Follow Steps 1 - 3 on the OneLogin Resource Page.
OneLogin utilizes Multi Factor Authentication. What is Multi Factor Authentication?
Who do I contact if I have problems with my Collin College email?
- Contact Student Technical Support at (972)377-1777
Who do I contact if I have problems with my Office 365 account?
- Contact Microsoft Office Support at (800) 642-7676
Creating a backup export file
For users who want to backup all emails, contacts, and/or calendar events
- Creating a .pst file
- Microsoft Training Center
- Excel - Excel offers the ability to organize and manipulate data in spreadsheets with sorting, calculations, graphing tools, pivot tables, and macros.
- Outlook - Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager. It includes an email application, calendar, task manager, contact manager, and note taking journal.
- PowerPoint - With PowerPoint, you can create presentations with images, videos, animation, and formatted text with templates or custom slide themes.
- Word - Word is a word processing application in which you can format text, insert images and tables, and layout documents.
- Teams – Teams is a chat-based collaborative tool that provides a customizable team workspace. Teams integrates with many other Office 365 products to seamlessly connect you and your team to the full Office 365 experience.
- Planner - Planner makes it easy to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, chat, and receive updates on projects. The ability to organize teamwork and collaborate on projects in a simple, visual way.
- OneDrive - OneDrive for Business gives you one place to store, share, and sync your work or school files.
- OneNote - OneNote provides a place to host notes, drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries and the ability to collaborate with others on these files.
- Forms - Forms allows you to quickly and easily create custom quizzes, surveys, questionnaires, registrations, and more. When you create a quiz or form, you can invite others to respond to it using any web browser, even on mobile devices. As results are submitted, you can use built-in analytics to evaluate responses.
- Power BI - Visually explore your data with a freeform drag-and-drop canvas, modern data visualizations, and simple report authoring.
- Sway - Sway is an app that makes it easy to create and share interactive reports, personal stories, presentations, and more on the web.
- Flow - Microsoft Flow is a cloud-based service that makes it practical and simple for line-of-business users to build workflows that automate time-consuming business tasks and processes across applications and services.
- What is my Collin College email and Office 365 username?
- Your Collin College email is your CougarWeb username (first letter of first name + full last name + a number) @collin.edu. Example: jdoe1@collin.edu
- Office 365 username: Your Office 365 username is the same as your CougarWeb login (see above). Example: jdoe1
- How does Collin College use my email address?
- Collin College will use the email for institutional and faculty contact, such as school event notices, course notifications, professor emails, etc.
- How can I change my password?
- For Office 365: If you need to change your password you can go to OneLogin and click on “forgot password”.
- For Collin.edu email: From the CougarWeb login, click the embedded “Self-Service Student Password Reset” link located under "Need Assistance?" If issue persists, call Student Technical Support at (972)377-1777, option 1.
- Can I forward my Collin student email to another account?
- At the top the page, select Settings > View all Outlook settings.
- Select Mail > Forwarding.
- Select Start Forwarding, enter the forwarding email address and select Save.
- Which browsers will work with my Collin College email and Office 365?
- Collin College resources will work best with either Google Chrome or Firefox. Safari is not recommended.
- Who do I contact if I have problems with my Collin College email?
- Contact Student Technical Support at (972)377-1777
- Who do I contact if I have problems with my Office 365 account?
- Contact Microsoft Office Support at (800) 642-7676