Office 365 for Educators (2018)

Learn how to use Microsoft Office 365 for education: to create more dynamic lessons, track student progress, communicate and share files online, and even save time.

Microsoft Office is a staple set of tools for educators, and now includes education-specific functionality such as classroom notebooks in OneDrive and educator-specific collaboration tools in Teams. In education, learning to use these applications can help increase learning, empower students, and save teachers valuable time. This course dives into tips and tricks that will allow educators to get the most from the entire Office suite. Instructor Oliver Schinkten explores each of the Office tools: classics like PowerPoint, Excel, and Word, as well as new additions such as Sway, OneDrive, OneNote, and Teams. He demonstrates education-specific techniques and ideas to help educators create more dynamic lessons, track student progress, share files online, and even save time. He helps you create lessons for flipped classes, newsletters, and tutorials, and turn the tables and challenge your students to create projects with the same programs.

Introduction

• Get the most out of Office 365 in the classroom
• What you should know before watching

1. Overview of Microsoft Office

• Microsoft Office 365 for educators
• Microsoft Office Online

2. Microsoft PowerPoint for Educators

• Introduction to PowerPoint for educators
• Effective presentations
• Engaging presentations
• Link actions
• Record presentations to create flipped classes
• Share your recorded PowerPoint presentations
• Empower students with PowerPoint

3. Sway for Educators

• Introduction to Sway for educators
• What is a Sway?
• Convert existing documents into Sways
• Create tutorials and flipped classes with Sway

4. Microsoft Excel for Educators

• Introduction to Excel for educators
• Track student progress
• Add equations to make calculations
• Conditional formatting of cells
• Filtering results

5. Microsoft Word for Educators

• Introduction to Word for educators
• Use Word templates
• Create visual representations with SmartArt
• Use charts to turn data into visual representations

6. One Drive for Educators

• Centralized file storage using OneDrive
• Share resources with students

7. One Note for Educators

• Microsoft OneNote for educators
• OneNote Class Notebooks
• OneNote Web Clipper

8. Microsoft Teams

• Microsoft Teams for educators
• Create a new class
• Create an online file library
• Create assignments

Conclusion

• Empower students: Digital literacy
• Next steps