Discover digital tools in Microsoft Office to enhance your lessons

As the education industry continues to move more practices online, connectedness is key for successful teaching. Fortunately, advances in digital tools are unlocking a plethora of opportunities to help you deliver an engaging, collaborative, and effective learning experience.

On this four-week course, you’ll discover the Microsoft Office tools you can use to store, access, and create documents to support your learners at school and at home.

With this knowledge, you’ll learn how to effectively present information to your students to enrich your lessons and help encourage engagement.

Explore the range of effective learning tools available to you

The course will help build your confidence and skills in using Microsoft Office 365 in educational settings as you discover the many benefits it can bring to the classroom.

You’ll explore the different tools available to you to help you create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations using a web browser.

This understanding will help you stay organised whilst successfully responding to learner needs.

Improve your learning experiences alongside industry experts

By the end of this course, you’ll know how to use the core applications within the Office 365 suite for both the web and desktop.

Learning from the specialists at Tablet Academy, you’ll have the skills to successfully strengthen your teaching practices.

Syllabus

Week 1
An Introduction to Microsoft Office 365 for Educators
- Welcome to the course
  In this activity you will meet the Lead Educator for the course, and gain an overview of the course content, structure, and learning outcomes.
- What is Microsoft 365 for Education?
  In this activity you will gain an overview of Microsoft 365, and learn about some features of cloud-based apps and storage.
Week 2
Online Storage & Creating Documents
- Online Storage
  In this activity you will learn about the features of OneDrive (your personal online storage) and SharePoint (the online equivalent of a shared network drive), and how to save, copy, move, and delete online files.
- Creating and Managing Documents
  In this activity you will learn how to create and manage online documents, and to share and work collaboratively on documents.
Week 3
Sharing Documents & Working online
- Sharing Documents
  Learn how to share documents with colleagues and students using OneDrive and SharePoint, and the pros and cons of each method.
- Working online
  Learn about some of the benefits of working online such as document auto-save, version history, recycle bin, and co-authoring.
Week 4
Office 365 online apps
- Office 365 online apps
  Learn about some of the apps included in Office 365 including apps to support learning and teaching, and apps to help you and your organisation work more efficiently and effectively.

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Explain what Microsoft Office 365 is and the benefits it provides for education
Identify the core applications within the Office 365 suite and explain how they can be used in an education context
Summarise the key differences between OneDrive and SharePoint
Apply an understanding of Office Online to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations using a web browser
Demonstrate an understanding of the range of Accessibility tools within Office 365 to support various learning needs.

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for teachers who currently use or plan to use Microsoft Office 365 in their role as an educator.

You should have some teaching experience but don’t need any prior knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.

Who developed the course?

Tablet Academy

Tablet Academy (TA) is a recognised Google for Education Partner and Microsoft in Education Global Training Partner with expertise throughout UK, Europe and the Middle East.

Learning on FutureLearn

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