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Microsoft Office for Faculty/Staff

All Goucher faculty and staff are fully licensed for the at-home use of Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium (MEEC) Microsoft Office software. Please note that the Work at Home agreement does not include the Windows Operating System. Please remember that the software license is the property of the college and not the individual.

Acquisition of the software requires the following steps:

• Read and agree to Microsoft's Work at Home Agreement
  
  FACULTY/STAFF: May use the products on personally owned computers at home for work related to their employment. Only desktop applications are eligible for WAH licensing - the Office suite. (Note that the operating system upgrade is NOT included for WAH licensing). Other faculty and staff responsibilities include:
  1. The licenses are owned by the institution, therefore, use of the software must be discontinued when the faculty/staff member leaves the employment of the institution.
  2. Faculty/staff must use the WAH software only for uses approved in the campus's acceptable use policy. Running a side business using the software, for instance, is prohibited.
  3. The software is not to be shared or lent to friends, family and neighbors.

• Request and make payment for the software. A small charge covers the cost of obtaining the physical copy of the software media (CD-ROM) from our supplier. The cost for all version of Microsoft Office is $10; this software is usually in stock and may be obtained by bringing payment to the Help Desk in Van Meter 162 (x6322) NOTE: The price listed is charged by our supplier at the time of this writing and may be subject to change at any time).

The software included in Microsoft Office and covered by the Work At Home Agreement are: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, FrontPage, and Outlook. Faculty and staff should consider purchasing the Microsoft Office 2003 since this is the version that is currently used in the standard campus software configuration.

Please contact Help Desk helpdesk@goucher.edu, phone:410.337.6322 if you have any questions about the Work At Home agreement.