Setup and Login to Microsoft 365 account

After you complete your registration with the college you will receive your IT login details ( in early September). Before you can access any of the applications needed for your course you must first set up your Microsoft 365 account. Your Microsoft 365 account will be used to login to college computers, personal devices, accessing printers and Moodle for your course materials.

In this section, we will explain each step of the  process. There is also supporting files to download to support the process.

You can click download button for the M365 One page guide to have during induction days

DCFE_M365_Setup_One_Page_Guide 2026Download

You can Click to download for the college Student Handbook on using M365 and college Printing.

STUDENT_IT_HANDBOOK-2027 TLDownload

STEP 1:Retrieving your Microsoft365 account details (from Sept 7th)

• Search your personal email account(The one used for regisitration e.g gmail) for a subject title with “Dublin College Dundrum “, in it and originating from “hello@tools4schools.ie
• Open the email to see your Microsoft365 account details
• Your email address will be your 8-digit college id or username followed by @dundrum.mydublincollege E.g. 20254678@dundrum.mydublincollege.ie
• Your college email address password will consist of a combination of numbers, letters and special characters, and is case sensitive. E.g. aA*12#zZ (This is generated by Microsoft)
• You will also need own personal and valid mobile phone number to complete authentication of account

STEP 2: Setting your password and Multi Factor Authentication(MFA) (Extra Security)

Note Before you start.

The sequence of prompts may vary but they will lead to the same result. (You may be asked to update password first or set up authenication first. Either way follow all screen prompts to complete both.

If you are setting up your account remotely, you will be asked to set up the authentication (MFA) before changing your password. This is normal and based on the college security policy. The steps in the college are the same though the order may be different as mentioned above.

On campus during planned induction days in early September will be the time for most students to setup. You will be signing into assigned desktops in computers classrooms and using Guest account for logging in the first time (Note you will not be using your student account at the start as needs to be setup first). Guest accounts in the college do not require a password just press enter. Make sure to Sign out when finished to clear the usage. You will need to click through the Microsoft prompts to set up the browser. This is standard Microsoft setup and nothing to do with the college

When done you will be at the Microsoft Internet browser and from here go to the college website  via link Student Area or https://cfedundrum.com/my-dcfe/ and Scroll down the page to the area where you can Click on Microsoft 365

You can start setup of your account .Once active all 365 relevant applications will be availble until end of the college year

• Start by entering your college email address
• Click ‘Next’ 
• You may get the following screen first. If so click next

• You will need to change your password on first login. The current password is the temporary one you were provided with in the initial Welcome email. Make sure to note your new password. It must be minimum of 8 characters and include a number and a symbol. It can be reset by selecting ” forgot password” later if required.
• You may be first asked to choose authenicatation method. You can use the offical Microsoft or select other options to get code sent as SMS(This is the preferred method for the college). Microsoft tends to offer the App as main option

• Click on Phone

• From the drop down, select ‘Ireland (+353)’ and type in your full mobile phone number (Note: this mobile number will be sent a code for authentication)
• It is best not to change your phone number or personal email address during the college year as will impact authentication process and will lock up your account.
• Please inform your Programme Lead if you need to change your number during the year as will require a support ticket to be issued which may take a couple of days to be fixed.

• Follow the screen prompts

• You can view your setting by clicking on your userid and select security

• Now that you were logged in, you can move through your applications by clicking on the 9 dots to see full suite. Your landing page may look different due to Microsoft but has the same functions. (You may be at the Copilot landing page. If so you can click on your id bottom left to see profile.

INDUCTION VIDEOS

The following documents and videos provide further information to help you get familiar with some of the IT and Apps used during your course. These will be introduced slowly throughout the year, so don’t worry about having to know everything right now.

If you have any questions or require further help completing, Drop-In sessions will be available throughout the year.

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