Microsoft Project

About Microsoft Project

About the software

Microsoft Project is a project management software program, and is designed to assist project managers in developing plans, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing budgets and analysing workloads.

See also MindGenius; the Gantt view, task management and analysis tools will be adequate for managing some projects.

Version

The latest version of Project Standard and Project Professional may be purchased by departments for use on computers owned or leased by the University. See Obtaining the software for more information.

Obtaining the software

Students

Classrooms

Not installed

Home use

Project is not available to students via the Library & IT Help Desk.

Staff

Supported and unsupported PCs

Microsoft Project can be purchased via the Microsoft Select deal.

Home use

IT Services is not able to sell Microsoft Project for home use.

Documentation, training and support

Documentation

• Microsoft Project product guide and support site
• Microsoft Project on Wikipedia

Training

• Getting Started with Project 2010 - Microsoft online training

Support

• Microsoft Project troubleshooting pages

IT Services is unable to offer support for Microsoft Project.