Microsoft Education provides a free 12-month subscription to college students. When signing up, you will need to provide your SPU college email address as well as credit card information. As long as you cancel before 12 months, your card will not be charged.

Here’s the link to sign up. When entering your information, be sure to select the school name “Saint Peter’s University (Jersey City, NJ)” and enter your academic email address correctly.

If you encounter any technical difficulties, email [email protected].

Go to saintpeters.edu/myapps, you will be prompted to log into your Saint Peter’s Google account (if you haven’t already), and select the Apporto icon.

This will bring you to the Saint Peter’s Apporto page, click the app store icon (4 pink squares), and it will show you the available software.

Find the software you want to use, then click the launch button.

This will launch a new tab in your web browser and load the software. 

To save your document, go to File > Save. Files will be saved to your Apporto Cloud.

In the top left corner of the screen, you will see 4 icons.

From left to right, these icons do the following:

Toggle Full Screen – Makes the software take up your entire monitor.  Click it again to go back to windowed mode

File Upload -Add files to the Apporto Cloud (Desktop or Documents) in order to open files from your local device on Apporto applications(File > Open).

File Download-Save your file (File > Save in the application) on Apporto (Desktop or Documents), then download your work from the Apporto Cloud to your local device.

Audio On/Off – Mute and unmute audio within the software

When you are done using the software, close the tab.

Click on your email address on the top right, then click logout.