MICROSOFT OFFICE 365
Students and educators at eligible institutions can sign up for Office 365 Education for free. Students can log into their school accounts at portal.office.com, where they’ll have access to Microsoft Teams, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and so much more. From this home base, students can open Office apps in their web browser.
Features:
- Office applications –The regular Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) updated to take advantage of the collaboration and cloud file syncing features.
- Office Mobile – Mobile apps available for Windows Phone, iPhone, iPad, and various Android devices.
- Office Web Apps – Online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, available on any computer with a web browser.
Storage:
- Outlook (email account) for each user has 50Gb storage capacity
- OneDrive cloud storage has 5TB of storage capacity for each user
Safety of Data
As a legitimate subscriber of licensed Microsoft products, we are have the administrative control over our data. Compared to free online applications, Microsoft Office 365 is a safer haven for our data.
APPLICATIONS
1. MICROSOFT TEAMS
Microsoft Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, content, assignments, and apps together in one place, letting teachers create vibrant learning environments. Build collaborative classrooms, connect in professional learning communities, and connect with colleagues—all from a single experience, and free to educators and students.
In our setting, we can use MS Teams as an application where we can hold online virtual classes. This is good for conversation/assessment of the student.
- Collaborative meetings for virtual classes
Microsoft Teams meetings support up to 250 concurrent attendees, including the ability to have audio, video, content sharing, whiteboards, and shared notes. Meetings can be scheduled within a private space or within a team channel, so all team members know about it. Meetings can be recorded and saved for attendees to review later. These recordings can also be transcribed to easily find content that had been discussed. A laptop or mobile phone webcam, microphone, and speaker can be used for meetings, and you can get premium audio/video quality from Microsoft Teams optimized devices.
In Teams, meeting organizers can end a meeting for all participants. With this capability, educators can ensure that students don't stay in a meeting unsupervised after a class is finished.
Link for MS Teams
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/teams
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/remote-learning-edu
2. MS CLASSNOTEBOOK
The OneNote Class Notebook is an app that helps you set up OneNote in your class. This app will create a class notebook, which includes three types of sub-notebooks:
- Student Notebooks— private notebooks that are shared between each teacher and their individual students. Teachers can access these notebooks at any time, but students cannot see other students’ notebooks.
- Content Library— a notebook for teachers to share course materials with students. Teachers can add and edit its materials, but for students, the notebook is read-only.
- Collaboration Space— a notebook for all students and the teacher in the class to share, organize, and collaborate.
GETTING STARTED WITH CLASS NOTEBOOK
- Launch the OneNote Class Notebook
- Sign in to Office 365.
- Click the app launcher in the upper left.
- In the list of apps that appears, click the Class Notebook app.
- Create a Class Notebook: Create a Class Notebook in OneNote
- (Optional) Add another teacher to your Class Notebook: Add or remove co-teachers in Class Notebook for OneNote
- Add your students to your Class Notebook: Add students to a Class Notebook in OneNote
- Managing Class Notebooks
To manage other capabilities for your Class Notebooks, click the Manage notebooks button from the Class Notebook wizard.
This displays a page that shows all class notebooks created by you, as well as information for customizing each one.
Options include:
- Renaming student sections— To rename any student sections, click the little pencil icon, and then type the new name of the section. Be sure to click Save after renaming student sections.
- Adding student sections— To distribute a new section to all students, click the Add section Be sure to click Save after adding student sections.
- Enabling the Teacher-Only section group— The Teacher-Only section group is a private space where only the teacher can see what’s inside. To add a Teacher Only section group to your Class Notebook, click Enable Teacher-Only section group. Other teachers that have access to your Class Notebook will also have access to the Teacher-Only section group, but students cannot see anything here.
- Locking the Collaboration Space— Enabling this option changes the Collaboration Space to read-only (or lockdown) to prevent any students from editing. You can toggle the switch from locked to unlocked at any time.
- Opening the Class Notebook— Click Open to open the Class Notebook.
- Sharing a link to the Class Notebook— To send a link to the Class Notebook to your class, select and copy the text in the Link box, and then paste it into an email.
Link for MS Class Notebooks
3. ONEDRIVE
Send Links, Not Files
It’s time to move away from email attachments. It’s never been easier to share documents for co-authoring. Simply upload your file to Office 365’s cloud storage. Then, write your email via Outlook or the Outlook web app. Rather than attaching your document to the email, you can insert a link to the file on your cloud. Outlook will automatically allow email recipients to edit the document you wish to share. You can always change permissions on any document at your convenience.
Link for OneDrive https://support.office.com/en-us/article/protect-your-onedrive-files-in-personal-vault-6540ef37-e9bf-4121-a773-56f98dce78c4
4. PLANNER
This will help you and your team stay on top of your game by providing you with a visual overview of your workflow while organizing collaborative efforts. Create game plans, assign tasks and follow-up to-do’s, set due dates, provide project updates, and share project-related files from the dashboard. Every time the dashboard is updated, your team will be alerted via email notification.
Link for Planner https://support.office.com/en-us/article/sign-in-to-microsoft-planner-fe43c972-5a95-4071-86d4-423a64a3b21e
https://www.chorus.co/resources/news/what-is-office-365-planner-a-beginners-guide
5. MS STREAM AND VIDEO
Microsoft Stream is an Enterprise Video service where people in your organization can upload, view, and share videos securely. You can share recordings of classes, meetings, presentations, training sessions, or other videos that aid your team's collaboration. Microsoft Stream also makes it easy to share comments on a video, tag timecodes in comments and descriptions to refer to specific points in a video and discuss with colleagues.
Link for Stream and Video https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/overview
DISTANCE LEARNING WITH OFFICE 365:
GUIDANCE FOR PARENTS AND GUARDIANS
Teamwork in MS Office 365
Downloadable Guides
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/office-quick-starts-25f909da-3e76-443d-94f4-6cdf7dedc51e
Sample
https://www.wright.edu/sites/www.wright.edu/files/page/attachments/Office365Training.pdf
Here's is an interactive tutorial on the use of Class Notebook.
