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Microsoft Office 365 Power User

  • Duration: 3 Day(s)
  • Date: 25 Oct, 2024
  • Price: R5, 565.00 (excl. VAT)
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Course Introduction

The course is designed to help power users and end users make the most of the Office 365 apps. Teaching you how to collaborate across the business and understand when to use what and maximize your business adoption of Office 365.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, you will understand the various apps available to you through your subscription and prioritize which apps to use for various business scenarios.

You will:

  • Manage content with OneDrive.
  • Collaborate with SharePoint Online.
  • Understand how the different apps integrate with each other.
  • Work together with groups.
  • Collaborate with Teams.
  • Work with video using Stream.
  • Engage Colleagues with Delve, Sway, and Yammer.
  • Work with data using Power BI, PowerApps, Flow, and Forms.

Course Content

  • Module 1: An Introduction to Office 365
    • In this module we will give a brief overview of what Office 365 is, where the data is stored and some of the subscription choices available. We will also discuss how to access Office 365 and where it can be accessed.
    • Lessons
      • What is Office 365?
      • Office 365 Plans
      • Office 365 Apps
      • Browser support
      • Getting started – Login with Office 365
      • Update your Delve profile
  • Module 2: Managing Content with OneDrive
    • OneDrive replaces that personal drive. We will discuss when you should use OneDrive and importantly when staff should not be using OneDrive. We will show you how OneDrive can be accessed and synchronized with your devices. We will discuss the options for sharing files and folders as well as the benefits of versions and the recycle bin. We will also look at the file details available to us for audit and search purposes.
    • Lessons
      • Adding and organizing content
      • Version history
      • Deleting and restoring files
      • Sharing files
      • File details
      • Synchronising files to the device
  • Module 3: Working with Office Apps
    • In this module we will look at the more familiar Office Apps and discuss when you would use the local copy of the application and when you would use the browser version. We will also discuss how they integrate with the other Apps such as saving attachments to OneDrive or Groups. This module will also discuss the ways to collaborate with colleagues Co-Authoring on documents.
    • Lessons
      • Working with emails in Outlook online
      • Managing attachments
      • Meeting creation
      • Out of Office Rule
      • Word/Excel and PowerPoint online
      • OneNote notebooks
  • Module 4: Collaborate with SharePoint Online
    • We will look at and discuss the different ways organisations use SharePoint Online. We will focus mainly on the document collaboration in this module. We will look at the benefits of adding metadata to documents and how that metadata can be utilised to create different views of the data, as well as sorting and filtering data. We will show you what can be achieved with alerts, workflows, and document approval. We will also discuss how to share documents internally and externally. Finally, we turn to Communications sites and look at editing pages and adding web parts.
    • Lessons
      • Creating Team Sites
      • Working with document libraries
      • Adding metadata columns
      • Working with views
      • How to set an alert on a document library
      • Creating news items
      • Communication sites
      • Editing pages
      • Adding Webparts to pages
  • Module 5: Working together with Groups
    • Office 365 Groups are an integral part of Office 365. Not all organisations utilise the collaboration abilities of these groups via Outlook. We will discuss how end users can communicate and share documents directly from Outlook. There will be a demonstration of the conversation area which is a shared mailbox, the shared calendar, the notepad, and Planner as part of this module. We will also discuss the other apps that are created when a 365 Group is created. Finally, we will discuss when it may be appropriate to collaborate with Groups.
    • Lessons
      • Creating groups
      • Adding files
      • Using the Group Calendar
      • Adding members
      • Adding tasks to Planner
      • Using the OneNote Notebook
      • Navigating to the SharePoint site
  • Module 6: Collaborate with Teams
    • Microsoft Teams is the new way to collaborate, providing, amongst other things, functionality from Skype for Business. It is the area where end users can work on documents with other members of a team, have conversations about the documents, set up meetings and discuss the meeting in the Team’s Channel. You can also chat directly with colleagues, have video or voice calls and record meetings. The idea around Teams is to be able to find all the information relating to a specific aspect of a project or team in one place. During this module there will be a demonstration of each aspect of Teams and a discussion on why and how you may utilise it as an organisation.
    • Lessons
      • Create a new Team
      • Add members to the Team
      • Ad a new Channel
      • Start a conversation within a Channel
      • Add some files
      • Create a Tab from a file
      • Schedule a new meeting in a Channel
  • Module 7: Working with Video using Stream
    • Microsoft Stream is your corporate YouTube channel. We will discuss how we can organise our video content into groups and channels. There will be a demonstration of how to integrate video from Steam onto SharePoint Pages. We will also look at adding Stream to Teams. As part of the module, we will also discuss the additional features available in Steam when you upgrade your subscription including the transcription and people finder service.
    • Lessons
      • Uploading videos
      • Channels in Stream
      • Sharing content
      • Following Channels
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Course Introduction

The course is designed to help power users and end users make the most of the Office 365 apps. Teaching you how to collaborate across the business and understand when to use what and maximize your business adoption of Office 365.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, you will understand the various apps available to you through your subscription and prioritize which apps to use for various business scenarios.

You will:

  • Manage content with OneDrive.
  • Collaborate with SharePoint Online.
  • Understand how the different apps integrate with each other.
  • Work together with groups.
  • Collaborate with Teams.
  • Work with video using Stream.
  • Engage Colleagues with Delve, Sway, and Yammer.
  • Work with data using Power BI, PowerApps, Flow, and Forms.

Course Content

  • Module 1: An Introduction to Office 365
    • In this module we will give a brief overview of what Office 365 is, where the data is stored and some of the subscription choices available. We will also discuss how to access Office 365 and where it can be accessed.
    • Lessons
      • What is Office 365?
      • Office 365 Plans
      • Office 365 Apps
      • Browser support
      • Getting started – Login with Office 365
      • Update your Delve profile
  • Module 2: Managing Content with OneDrive
    • OneDrive replaces that personal drive. We will discuss when you should use OneDrive and importantly when staff should not be using OneDrive. We will show you how OneDrive can be accessed and synchronized with your devices. We will discuss the options for sharing files and folders as well as the benefits of versions and the recycle bin. We will also look at the file details available to us for audit and search purposes.
    • Lessons
      • Adding and organizing content
      • Version history
      • Deleting and restoring files
      • Sharing files
      • File details
      • Synchronising files to the device
  • Module 3: Working with Office Apps
    • In this module we will look at the more familiar Office Apps and discuss when you would use the local copy of the application and when you would use the browser version. We will also discuss how they integrate with the other Apps such as saving attachments to OneDrive or Groups. This module will also discuss the ways to collaborate with colleagues Co-Authoring on documents.
    • Lessons
      • Working with emails in Outlook online
      • Managing attachments
      • Meeting creation
      • Out of Office Rule
      • Word/Excel and PowerPoint online
      • OneNote notebooks
  • Module 4: Collaborate with SharePoint Online
    • We will look at and discuss the different ways organisations use SharePoint Online. We will focus mainly on the document collaboration in this module. We will look at the benefits of adding metadata to documents and how that metadata can be utilised to create different views of the data, as well as sorting and filtering data. We will show you what can be achieved with alerts, workflows, and document approval. We will also discuss how to share documents internally and externally. Finally, we turn to Communications sites and look at editing pages and adding web parts.
    • Lessons
      • Creating Team Sites
      • Working with document libraries
      • Adding metadata columns
      • Working with views
      • How to set an alert on a document library
      • Creating news items
      • Communication sites
      • Editing pages
      • Adding Webparts to pages
  • Module 5: Working together with Groups
    • Office 365 Groups are an integral part of Office 365. Not all organisations utilise the collaboration abilities of these groups via Outlook. We will discuss how end users can communicate and share documents directly from Outlook. There will be a demonstration of the conversation area which is a shared mailbox, the shared calendar, the notepad, and Planner as part of this module. We will also discuss the other apps that are created when a 365 Group is created. Finally, we will discuss when it may be appropriate to collaborate with Groups.
    • Lessons
      • Creating groups
      • Adding files
      • Using the Group Calendar
      • Adding members
      • Adding tasks to Planner
      • Using the OneNote Notebook
      • Navigating to the SharePoint site
  • Module 6: Collaborate with Teams
    • Microsoft Teams is the new way to collaborate, providing, amongst other things, functionality from Skype for Business. It is the area where end users can work on documents with other members of a team, have conversations about the documents, set up meetings and discuss the meeting in the Team’s Channel. You can also chat directly with colleagues, have video or voice calls and record meetings. The idea around Teams is to be able to find all the information relating to a specific aspect of a project or team in one place. During this module there will be a demonstration of each aspect of Teams and a discussion on why and how you may utilise it as an organisation.
    • Lessons
      • Create a new Team
      • Add members to the Team
      • Ad a new Channel
      • Start a conversation within a Channel
      • Add some files
      • Create a Tab from a file
      • Schedule a new meeting in a Channel
  • Module 7: Working with Video using Stream
    • Microsoft Stream is your corporate YouTube channel. We will discuss how we can organise our video content into groups and channels. There will be a demonstration of how to integrate video from Steam onto SharePoint Pages. We will also look at adding Stream to Teams. As part of the module, we will also discuss the additional features available in Steam when you upgrade your subscription including the transcription and people finder service.
    • Lessons
      • Uploading videos
      • Channels in Stream
      • Sharing content
      • Following Channels

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