( Microsoft launched this self-serve service in the United States last September.) How do you check? Students can go to /getoffice365 and enter a school-provided email address, and teachers can visit the /teachers site and do the same. As before, the school must license Office in order for its students to be eligible. Microsoft said Tuesday that the offer for free Office is being extended anywhere Office is available: from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, or dozens of countries around the world. Now, that offer is being extended worldwide. students for free, provided their schools licensed the software for faculty and staff. In 2013, Microsoft said it would offer Microsoft Office 365 to U.S.