Explore Office 365, Microsoft's cloud-based collaborative suite designed to enhance accessibility, mobility, and team productivity. This comprehensive course provides an overview of the applications available in Office 365 and teaches you the core features that can transform your workday and elevate your team's productivity. Whether you are new to cloud-based collaboration or responsible for implementing Office 365 across your organization, you will gain practical skills to maximize this powerful platform.
Audience:
This course is designed for individuals new to Office 365, as well as for decision makers and administrators considering Office 365 adoption or responsible for implementing the platform in their organizations.
Prerequisites:
Basic familiarity with the Windows operating system and Microsoft Office applications is required. No prior Office 365 experience is necessary.
Course Outline
Introduction to Office 365
- What is Office 365, and how it differs from traditional Office installation
- Multiple ways to access Office 365: online, desktop applications, and mobile devices
- Key benefits of adopting Office 365 for individuals and organizations
Navigate Office 365
- Customize your Office 365 start page to match your workflow and preferences
- Search efficiently for apps, documents, people, and team sites within Office 365
- Get an overview of available applications and their purposes
- Easily access documents from anywhere and on any device
- Navigate using the start menu and integrated navigation tools
Work with Your Documents Using OneDrive for Business
- Store personal documents securely with access from anywhere, on any device, at any time
- Search for documents quickly using powerful search capabilities
- View and access documents that have been shared with you
- Recover deleted documents from the recycle bin when needed
- Access your team's documents and shared repositories
- Create new documents or upload existing documents to OneDrive
- Manage document sharing and permissions yourself without IT involvement
- Work online in the browser or use the desktop client as preferred
- Collaborate and co-author documents in real-time with colleagues
- Access your documents even when the internet connection is not available through offline synchronization
Access Email on the Go with Outlook on the Web
- Navigate the Outlook interface efficiently
- Organize and manage your inbox effectively
- Work with incoming mail and stay on top of new messages
- Compose and send new mail with formatting and attachments
- Manage modern email attachments and preview files
- Schedule meetings and send meeting invitations from Outlook
Keep Track of Tasks with Planner
- Understand what Planner is and how it organizes team tasks and projects
- Quickly view the status of a plan with intuitive dashboards
- Easily edit and modify a plan as priorities and circumstances change
- View plans using multiple perspectives: Boards view, Charts view, or Schedule view
- See all tasks assigned to yourself in a personalized task view
Create and Use Forms
- Create a survey and customize it for your audience
- Work with survey responses and analyze results
- Share surveys with colleagues and gather feedback
- Create quizzes and assessments for training or evaluation
Work with All Your Tasks in One Place Using To-Do
- Create your personal To Do list that syncs automatically across all your devices
- Work with tasks and organize them into custom lists
- Work with the built-in lists, which include Tasks, Flagged email messages, and items assigned to you
- Use filtered views such as Planned, Important, and My Day to stay focused
Work and Collaborate Better with Teams
- Understand what Teams is and its role in modern workplace collaboration
- Access Teams through the web and desktop applications
- Navigate Teams channels, conversations, and team structures
- Communicate with your team through chat and messaging features
- Work with documents stored in Teams and collaborate in real-time
- Create and manage document tabs within Teams channels
- Have private conversations with individuals or small groups
- Escalate conversations to audio or video calls when more direct communication is needed
- Schedule and conduct meetings in Teams with audio, video, and screen sharing
