
Meet your instructor, Sandra Botanicas, who has trained in IT since 1991 across networking, security, cloud technologies, and Office 365, empowering teams to collaborate effectively.
Explore the fundamentals of Office 365 and Microsoft 365, log in, manage documents in OneDrive, and master core apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Teams, OneNote, Forms, Bookings, Stream, and Whiteboard.
Explore Office 365 web apps and document management: learn how to log in, access apps, pin to the taskbar, and add new store apps for streamlined data and collaboration.
Log in to Office 365 and explore left-placed app tiles or the top-left menu. Access all apps, view recommended and recent files, and manage pinned and shared documents.
Access Microsoft 365 web apps from portal.office.com, view the home screen with recent documents, and launch web-based Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneDrive, OneNote, SharePoint, and Teams.
Office 365 now has a desktop app that mirrors portal dot office dot com, offering one-click access from the taskbar when pinned.
Explore the Office 365 app as a locally installed desktop app, learn how to pin it to the taskbar, and experience seamless login without browser prompts due to local installation.
Log in to Microsoft Office 365, open your account, and navigate to apps and devices to locate and install your licensed desktop software.
Learn how to install a new add-in app in Office 365 by browsing the store, reading details, and choosing free or paid templates and forms with ratings and favorites.
Explore how to install and deploy a new add-in from the Microsoft store, filter results for templates, assign it to users, and set deployment options with admin or non-admin access.
Use the info signal to get instant help on apps like the White Board, with quick links about starting, iOS, web, and surface usage.
Learn how to access help across Office 365 web apps, find how-to guides, settings, and hyperlinks to shortcuts, and explore basic whiteboard features like sharing and opening in app.
Sync a local OneDrive folder with the cloud to access your documents from anywhere. Use my files, recent, shared, shared with you, and the recycling bin to manage them.
Create new files from the Office app, portal.office.com, or locally installed Office, and save to OneDrive or a chosen location, noting cloud default on the portal and desktop varies.
Learn how to open, edit, and close documents in Office 365 web apps, using browser-based editing by default and an optional desktop app for advanced features.
Learn a program-agnostic method to open, close, edit, save, and organize documents across Office 365 apps with OneDrive, ensuring consistent access from any device.
Rename a file in Microsoft Office 365 web apps by clicking the document name to open a rename box; change location, view version history, or rename via OneDrive.
Explore moving, copying, and deleting files in OneDrive and SharePoint, including using the recycle bin to restore items and understanding context menus and copy link.
OneDrive for Business automatically installs with Microsoft Office, syncing your files to a local folder and setting a safe location in Office; saving and sharing via right-click menus.
Defaults are set by company administrator to control who can edit documents in Office 365 web apps. Choose options like anyone with the link or specific people to protect confidentiality.
Learn how to share documents in Microsoft Office 365 to enable collaboration, using OneDrive, configuring sharing defaults, choosing specific people or links, and managing permissions.
Explore Delve to view shared and personal documents from a new angle, using favorites, boards, and cards to quickly access permitted files.
Explore Delve to view recent documents shared with others, open user profiles to see email addresses and contact details, and review documents and attachments tied to your permissions.
Discover how Delve surfaces recent documents and email attachments you can access, shows collaborators' work, back-links to original sources, and lets you pin favorites for quick access.
Explore Office 365 web apps and master document management by identifying essential apps, managing video content, and back linking and sharing content on SharePoint sites.
Explore the core applications of Microsoft Office 365 web apps, focusing on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. See the shared workflows for starting a new document, renaming, and saving across apps.
Discover how the common Microsoft 365 apps share the same creation, saving, renaming, and sharing features across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, with online and desktop options.
Explore how Office 365 common apps in the portal deliver consistent Word, Excel, and PowerPoint experiences across desktop and browser, with autosave and saving to OneDrive.
Learn how to start a new blank document in Word, save to OneDrive, view version history, compare and restore previous versions, and access file locations.
Compare Word Online and the desktop app, noting that Word Online opens documents and file formats but cannot open password protected files, while the desktop saves locally and handles permissions.
Create an Excel worksheet from OneDrive in the online portal, then rename the file to weekly numbers and save it in the new folder.
Open and access a file from the desktop app, exploring recent files, OneDrive path, and local saves, while demonstrating consistent opening and saving behaviors.
Identify items not supported in the Excel web app; some formats require the desktop app, external references update in Excel, and #VALUE errors occur for local path info.
Create new PowerPoint presentations in the 365 app using templates and designer ideas, add slides with pictures and text boxes, and save online or locally across web and desktop apps.
Compare PowerPoint online and desktop, noting printing limits, missing slide sort and outline views, and unavailable presenter view or password-protected slides; desktop offers easier use, per support.microsoft.com updates.
Explore Outlook web apps as an inbox-based email tool with composing, replying, forwarding, drafts, folders, calendar events, attachments, and contacts.
Compare the Outlook app and desktop versions, noting export and import mailbox options, absence of follow-up flags and voting buttons, and limited account and contacts features.
Explore the core Office 365 web apps, compare online and desktop versions, and master creating, saving, renaming, sharing, editing, and viewing across apps like Outlook.
Discover how Teams enable communication and collaboration, and how OneNote lets you capture thoughts in an online notebook accessible from anywhere.
Teams enables remote collaboration with video and audio meetings, PC-to-PC calls, chat, and team calendars, plus a built-in file system and app integrations like whiteboard.
Create a team in Microsoft Office 365 web apps by joining, creating from scratch or with a code, and use templates to drive adoption and manage projects, events, or onboarding.
Create a team from scratch by selecting private, public, or organization wide settings and inviting members. Search by typing names to add members and assign owners or members.
Create a team from scratch in Microsoft Office 365 Web Apps, set privacy, name it, add members and channels, integrate calendars and apps, and distinguish team chat from organization chat.
Create a team from a template in Microsoft Teams, with built-in channels and apps for onboarding, announcements, chat, training, and a wiki. Manage events with multiple channels.
Start a team conversation, drag and drop files into the files tab, and share content for collaborative, cross-platform access in Microsoft 365 web apps.
Learn to create a Teams meeting from Outlook or Teams web by setting a title, time, and attendees, then send a join link; calendars show tentative and confirmed statuses.
Learn how to install apps to Teams, embed an Excel spreadsheet as a tab linked to files, and use tabs to collaborate on calendars and other data.
Open a Teams site in SharePoint to view SharePoint from the files view, with document libraries, conversations, and pages. Create documents and site pages, and note browser requirements.
Explore how to create and organize notebooks in OneNote, add sections and pages, paste links and images, use tags and checklists, and print pages to OneNote for gardening planning.
Learn how to join a team meeting in Microsoft Office 365 web apps, choose from calendar or start impromptu, adjust background filters, manage audio and video, and share screens.
Demonstrates creating an impromptu one-on-one meeting in Office 365 web apps, using a video call, chat, dial pad, hold, and full meeting controls.
Discover how notebooks in OneNote organize content with sections and pages, support free-form text and copy-paste, and enable customizable tabbed formatting for easy sharing.
Explore OneNote navigation by organizing trips into notebooks, sections, and pages, saving travel info, conferences, hotels, tickets, agendas, and other trip details for quick cross-referencing.
Explore items that can go on a page, including free-flowing text and headings, search, and printing. Use tags and checkboxes; share notebooks for collaboration; draw with a stylus.
Learn to open and browse notebooks in Office 365 web apps via OneDrive, manage recent files, and upload business cards to OneNote.
Explore how teams enable meetings, audio and video chat, and collaborative spaces, and how OneNote notebooks help you organize work across projects within Microsoft Office 365 Web Apps.
Explore how bookings, planner, forms, and to do in 365 boost productivity and organization, and spark curiosity to discover more apps in the suite.
Learn how Bookings extends scheduling with a staffing list, color codes, availability, and roles, enabling you to book employees into client appointments.
Add services and business information, then attach staff to salon services like cut, color, or consultation, each with a name, duration, and optional default price.
Add a customer to bookings and capture their service details, contact information, and notes. Configure email confirmations and meeting invites for the booked appointment and initial consult service.
Explore Microsoft Bookings in Office 365, learn to add a booking calendar, create services, assign staff, customize the booking page, and manage appointments for a small business.
Plan and manage teamwork using planner by creating plans, inviting teammates, assigning tasks, dragging between buckets, attaching files, and using labels to match your team style.
Create and manage plans by adding tasks, attaching them to plans such as marketing or social media plans, and share via links, export to Excel, or sync with Outlook calendar.
Create and manage plans in a planner with buckets and tasks, choose public or private plans, assign work in Office 365, set due dates, and share task links to Outlook.
Learn how to build surveys, quizzes, and polls in forms, add diverse question types (radio, yes/no, text, ratings, dates, ranking, file upload), and tally responses to see the results.
Create and customize forms in Microsoft Office 365, adding multiple question types (choice, text, rating, date) with branching, sharing within your organization, and exporting results to Excel.
Use the To Do app to manage tasks across multiple lists, from groceries to work projects, and keep a Saturday morning list to decide what to accomplish.
Add a task by naming it and saving it to My Day with the add button. Track reminders, due dates, repeats, categories, and files to plan and complete tasks.
Add tasks to your day in the Microsoft Office 365 web apps, focusing on tasks with my day that resets nightly to refresh your up to date to do list.
Explore where to access your Microsoft 365 apps, from portal tiles to the mobile app and Windows 10 app, with quick taskbar access for easy planning.
Explore bookings, planner, and forms for surveys and polls, and use the to-do to organize schedules, calendars, and team tasks. Create plans, invite your team, assign tasks, and track dates.
Explore Sway, Stream, and Whiteboard in Office 365 web apps to present information in different formats, viewable via the web, and share or organize presentations remotely.
Discover how Microsoft Sway enables quick online presentations using templates or blank canvases, with smooth step-by-step layouts for travel info, recipes, and instructional visuals.
Explore how to navigate and edit Sway templates in Microsoft Office 365 web apps, create online presentations and step-by-step guides with layouts and spell-checked text.
Create a new sway with a title and theme, and choose a background image. Add headings, text, images, stacks, and videos, then drag to reorder and preview as you scroll.
Learn how to play Asway in a demo, adjust auto place settings, and use a three-second timer or manual navigation, plus explore horizontal layouts and presentation optimization.
Discover how Stream creates an organization-specific video portal within Microsoft 365, enabling channels, uploading and organizing videos, sharing links across Microsoft 365, and embedding videos in SharePoint.
Create a company-wide channel in Stream, upload and publish videos, and manage permissions while following other channels and sharing with SharePoint links.
Explore the whiteboard in Microsoft Office 365 web apps, a tool for teams to create and join boards, add sticky notes and text objects, draw ink, view images from others.
Use basic whiteboards from a template with ink and finger painting on a mobile device. Use the ruler, create shapes, and snap to line up objects for precise alignment.
Explore Hsueh stream and whiteboard to create presentations, including recipes and instructions, then share and organize video content in the portal via stream and collaborate across online, PC, and mobile.
Master consistent access across Office 365 web apps by focusing on tools like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Teams. Explore organizing, creating, and sharing with bookings, surveys, Sway, and Whiteboard.
Microsoft Office 365 Web is a free offering by Microsoft where anyone with a Microsoft, Hotmail or Outlook ID can use the office applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook etc. by simply logging in. The web suite offers access to additional applications as well which help increase the productivity.
The Microsoft Office 365 Web Apps course is ideally designed for students looking to learn and get introduced to the Office 365 Web Apps. The course covers in detail the commonly used applications and features such as document management, core applications, Teams and OneNote, bookings, planner, forms, to-do, sway, stream and whiteboard.
The course enables the students to fully utilize the features and capabilities of the latest Microsoft Office 365 suite and covers the core applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook as well as productivity applications offered as part of the suite. The course is comprehensive and helps the students to increase efficiency and productivity while using the Microsoft Office 365 Web Apps.
Overall, the course is very concise and well timed to deliver maximum practical knowledge to students which they can immediately start implementing during their day-to-day tasks which they perform on Microsoft Office 365 web applications. Ideally, the course should be taken by all users of an enterprise so that everyone is well equipped to use the digital tools and increase the overall workplace productivity.