Streamline efficiency with Office 365 apps
Contents
- 1 Description
- 2 Module 1: Office 365 Dashboard
- 3 Finding Your Way in Office 365
- 4 Office 365 Resources
- 5 Module 2: Finding Your Way in OneDrive
- 6 OneDrive for Business
- 7 Module 3: Office Online
- 8 Module 4: Editing a file in Office Online
- 9 Office Online Resources
- 10 Module 5: Word Online
- 11 Module 6: Immersive Reader
- 12 Module 7: PowerPoint Online
- 13 Office 365 Productivity Library - Education Settings
- 14 Module 8: Excel Online
- 15 Filtering Data in Excel
- 16 Module 9: Office Delve
- 17 Module 10: Work Wonders Project
- 18 Source
Description
Office 365 provides the right environment for better learning outcomes. In this introduction to Office 365, educators will learn how to become more innovative with cloud-based tools, regardless of the device they use. This course is aimed at educators for whom Office 365 is relatively new and who are looking to implement solutions to classroom problems right away. With Office 365, educators will learn how to become more innovative with cloud-based tools, regardless of the device they use.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how to create, share and sync a document on OneDrive for Business, and use other OneDrive & Office Online features.
- Explore key features in Office 365
- Discover how Office 365 apps can support student learning
Module 1: Office 365 Dashboard
Office 365 is a subscription service with access to online applications for productivity and collaboration. Office 365 for Education is a plan designed specifically for students, teachers and schools that provides access to an online suite of applications including Office. With Office 365, you can install the 2019 versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. When a new version of Office is released, you'll get instant access to it, keeping your applications always up-to-date. But it is so much more than just Office!
Six Simple Steps to Office 365
Finding Your Way in Office 365
Your Office 365 Education home base is https://office.com. Learn how to navigate, open your favorite apps, and manage your documents, all from here.
Office 365 Resources
The following resources provides teachers information on using Office 365 in education. Scan through the links to find resources you want to revisit later. Either bookmark pages in Microsoft Edge or share the URL to your OneNote notebook.
What's new in Office 365
This site helps you stay up-to-date on new features in Office 365.
Using Office 365 for Professional Development
Using Office 365 for Professional Development
Cal Armstrong, MIE Expert, discusses how his school district is using Office 365 to provide dynamic and collaborative professional development.
Accessibility in Office 365
Learn about capabilities that make working with files more easily accessible to users with vision, dexterity, and other disabilities. This means you can use keyboard shortcuts, a screen reader, or a speech recognition tool to work with Office 365.
Module 2: Finding Your Way in OneDrive
Meet OneDrive, where your files are stored and automatically saved.
OneDrive for Business
With one terabyte of cloud storage, OneDrive for Business makes it easy to manage your work files, share them, and collaborate with others from anywhere.
To learn more about OneDrive, check this out: OneDrive Video Training
Reflection
What is the benefit to storing all of your files in a virtual location, like OneDrive?
How does Office 365 help students stay organized?
Module 3: Office Online
Time is precious, and students are busy. Finding time outside of class to work on assignments can be challenging, but thanks to Office 365 students will not have any problems finding time.
One student can work on a document right after school, and another can complete his part at 9 p.m. after soccer practice. Because the document is on Office 365, students can access the document anytime, anywhere with their phone, tablet, or computer - even offline.
In the following modules, you will learn about how Office Online allows students to collaborate, create, and analyze in more meaningful ways. Before we learn about specific features in each program, let's look at a feature that helps students work smarter and is available in all Office Online apps.
Module 4: Editing a file in Office Online
There are several features that work the same whether you are in Word, PowerPoint or Excel. For example, it's easy to edit a file you have already created. And when you are in Office Online, your documents automatically save. No more excuses from students that they forgot their work at home!
Office Online Resources
The following resources provide teachers information on using Office Online in education. Scan through the links to find resources you want to revisit later. Either bookmark pages in Microsoft Edge or share the URL to your OneNote notebook.
Office help and training
Visit this end user hub to access hundreds of step-by-step instructions on how to perform tasks in Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, and OneDrive. An overview video about Office 365 with links to additional information about individual products and services is here.
Office for iOS
Resources include product information, download details, and an FAQ. Also watch this overview video, and check out training courses on Office apps for iPad.
Templates for Education
Download these handy Office templates including a syllabus, lesson plan, checklist, and PowerPoint designs.
Quick Tips to save time in Office Online
Quick Tips to save time in Education
Whether you are a tech pro striving for efficiency or are just looking to save more moments for your students in class, have a look at these tips and time-saving tricks for Office Online.
Module 5: Word Online
Word Online promotes the creation of professional looking documents, enhances collaboration, and offers a virtual writing assistant. With a wide selection of templates, Word Online helps students with formatting their documents so they create professional looking documents every time.
For more tutorials on Word Online, visit:
Module 6: Immersive Reader
Immersive Reader is part of Learning Tools. Learning Tools are designed to help improve reading skills by boosting one's ability to pronounce words correctly, to read quickly and accurately, and to understand what is read.
For more information on Learning Tools, check out these resources:
Immersive Reader for Office Lens
Module 7: PowerPoint Online
Word Online is not the only program that helps students create beautiful work. PowerPoint Online allows students to create professional looking presentations with little effort. With PowerPoint Online, students can create polished presentations with two features - Designer and Morph.
Designer is a tool that uses the images students include in their PowerPoint and automatically generates a variety of design options that they can choose from to make their slides look better. Morph can make smooth animations, transitions, and object movements across slides during presentations. With a few clicks, students have a professional looking presentation in seconds.
For more tutorials on PowerPoint Online, visit: PowerPoint Video Training
Office 365 Productivity Library - Education Settings
Office 365 Productivity Library education scenarios
Explore eight scenarios to see what teachers can accomplish using Office 365. Each scenario includes common tasks for teachers, how-to training, an interactive demo to try yourself, and a relevant case study.
Module 8: Excel Online
In addition to collaborating and creating, new charts in Excel Online promote students' analytical skills. Let's look at some ways students are able to analyze data in different ways with Excel Online.
For more tutorials on Excel, visit: Excel Video Training
Filtering Data in Excel
See how filters in Excel can enable you to organize your class data for optimal insights.
Get more Office 365 Education training and support: https://support.office.com/education
Module 9: Office Delve
Office Delve is a personal organization space for files that have been shared with you through OneDrive for Business. It is similar to Pinterest in that you can follow files and create boards to organize your files.
Want to learn more? Visit this site: What is Office Delve?
Module 10: Work Wonders Project
Two thought leaders in education participated in a project with Microsoft to apply technology including internet access to self-directed learning environments. This is a compelling case study consisting of a three-part video and an interview.
Read the blog and watch the three videos to learn about Self-Organized Learning Environments and the power of putting students together to find solutions.
Reflect on ways you could incorporate these ideas into your classroom.
Reflection
By utilizing Word, Excel and PowerPoint online, students can collaborate on the same document at the same time. How might this type of collaboration enhance group project dynamics?
What types of documents would teachers appreciate being able to access from any device, anywhere?
