Office 365 for End Users

Microsoft Office 365 offers a suite of Cloud based business applications including Teams, Planner, Office Online, OneDrive, SharePoint

This 1 day course aimed at end-users, will teach your staff how to get the best out of these Cloud based apps.

Course Goals:

• Introduction to 365 Cloud computing
• Understand the difference between desktop Office applications and Cloud based Office Online
• Realise the full potential of working in the 365 Cloud
• Gain a knowledge of Cloud storage via OneDrive and SharePoint
• Learn the concept of working collaboratively in a shared environment
• Introduce new Cloud services such as Teams and Planner
• Understand which business situations to use Cloud apps and learn how to create cohesion between their individual business functions

Topics:

Office 365 Overview

• Desktop Vs Online Apps
• Navigating the Office 365 browser based environment
• Signing into Office 365
• Managing a user account
• Recent Documents and Pinning files
• Syncing with mobile devices (including installing mobile apps)

Office Online Apps

• Differences between Desktop and Online: Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
• Sharing and collaborating
• Creating share links
• Realtime Chat
• Working offline
• Syncing with OneDrive
• Editing in browser
• Co-authoring documents with co-workers in real time

Outlook Online

• Differences between Desktop and Online
• Shared Calendar
• Creating Teams Meetings from Outlook
• People
• Tasks, The To Do App, and Planner

Groups

• Setting up and understanding groups in a shared environment
• Conversations and real-time chat
• File libraries
• Group calendar
• Group SharePoint site
• Sharing Office 365 resources in groups
• Working with Groups in Outlook, People and Calendar

Teams

• Introducing Teams
• Downloading the desktop App
• Managing teams
• Creating and understanding channels
• Adding teams
• Scheduling meetings using Teams Calendar
• Tabbed pages / interaction with other 365 Apps
• Chatting in Teams
• Alerts
• Working with Teams on mobile devices
• Teams library
• Tips and advice for creating successful conversations within a business environment

OneDrive for Business

• Accessing from any device
• Synchronising
• Sharing files

SharePoint

• Overview
• Where SharePoint fits into 365
• Sharing files
• Linking to Teams 

Planner

• Introducing Planner
• Understanding the Planner Hub
• Creating a Plan
• Using buckets
• Assigning Tasks
• Viewing charts and analytics
• Working with the Planner Shared Calendar
• Linking a plan to SharePoint Site and Teams
• Using the Planner App on devices
• Notifications

Sway

• Introducing Sway
• Creating Sway presentations
• Sway Vs PowerPoint

 Delve

• Recent documents, co-worker collaboration
• Managing your Delve profile
• Using Delve to find documents within Office 365 Cloud
• Monitoring shared documents and co-worker Cloud activity

Introducing other 365 Apps

• OneNote
• SharePoint (introduction only, see our SharePoint course for a fuller understanding)
• Forms
• Power Automate