Office 365

 As you read, Office 365 was referenced in the directions emailed to the staff to help everyone with the migration of our email system over to online storage. You might have asked yourself, “What is Office 365?” when you read the email or maybe you heard of it but weren't quite sure of its potential. In either case, Office 365 is a powerful cloud productivity tool that offers access to Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Sway, and other Microsoft Office tools from anywhere you have a Web connection. You can access Office 365 from virtually any device whether it is Windows or Mac based. It conveniently works on Android and Apple smartphones and tablets.

Office 365 provides users with online data storage on Microsoft’s online cloud storage service called One Drive. This elevates space issues on local hard drives on work and home computers. It also means that you can store your files on the cloud and access them from both work and home, no more saving files to flash drives. Teachers can share files with students and colleagues as well as work collaboratively on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in teams.

Everyone in the district has an Office 365 account. You simply log in with your full email address as your user name and the regular password you sign into the Network with every morning. I am embedding two short video clips to give you a more comprehensive overview of Office 365 and a quick lesson on how to start uploading and sharing files. An official rollout of 365 is in the future, but you don’t have to wait to start using the program…. especially with report cards around the bend. Office 365 will provide you with a seamless platform to work on report cards and comments from your classroom and from home. You will always have the most up to date version of your file at your fingertips.

Data Managers, you can create and share documents with your PLT.

If you don't have Microsoft Office Suite at home, you are allowed to download it free from your school account. Click on the Office 365 tab in the top left corner to get to the download page (see below).

A comprehensive overview of Office 365.

For a quick lesson on how to upload and share files in Office 365, click on the link below and view the screencast.

http://screencast.com/t/SSoRCYbKcUC