Microsoft Office 365 for Teachers: Educator Fundamentals for Digital Learning
Enhance your teaching with technology as you learn how to use Microsoft 365 to create an engaging digital learning environment.
Duration
Approx 10 weeks2-4 hrs per week
Microsoft Office 365 for Teachers: Educator Fundamentals for Digital Learning
Streamline your teaching processes using Microsoft digital technologies
Technology is transforming education. The shift from traditional and static teaching to dynamic digital learning is helping to create engaging educational experiences that extend far beyond the classroom.
On this ExpertTrack, you’ll learn how to enhance your teaching and streamline your processes using Microsoft technologies. You’ll master the use of a variety of tools to create not just an effective learning environment, but one that successfully responds to individual learner needs.
Learn how to create engaging documents with Microsoft 365
Delving into different Microsoft Office tools, you’ll develop the skills to store, access, and create documents that will help support your learners.
You’ll learn the best practices for presenting information to your students that will help keep them engaged and retain knowledge.
Use Microsoft Forms to improve student assessments
Assessment tools not only enhance your teaching practices but are also vital in helping you track progress. They are key in informing you whether your students are successful in their learning.
Using Microsoft Forms, you’ll develop the skills to collate responses from your students so you can assess their progress and create a collaborative learning experience.
Discover digital tools to promote inclusive learning
To ensure your lessons meet the needs of your learners, you’ll need to use different accessibility tools.
Delving into Office 365, you’ll learn how to use Reader, Live Captions, and Office Lens in a range of contexts to support learners with various accessibility needs and create an inclusive learning environment.
Learn from the experts at TabletAcademy
This ExpertTrack is delivered and produced by Microsoft specialists at TabletAcademy, an organisation working to transform teaching and learning through technologies.
By the end, you’ll have the skills and confidence you need to improve your teaching and increase student engagement using a digital learning environment.
Key skills you will learn
- Forms
- accessibility
- feedback
- teaching
- learning
- Office 365
- Remote Teaching
- Hybrid Teaching
Learning outcomes
By the end of the ExpertTrack, you’ll be able to...
- Apply an understanding of Office Online to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations using a web browser
- Describe how to access Microsoft Teams on a range of platforms.
- Summarise the different types of teams that can be created within Microsoft Teams and outline some of the different ways to create a Class Team.
- Demonstrate how to create Documents, Assignments and a host of Office 365 applications.
- Experiment with a range of features and question types to create a Quiz, and then use it to analyse and add feedback to responses.
- Reflect on the security and safety features that can be enabled in Meetings for online lessons and their impact.
- Investigate how OneNote Class Notebook and Microsoft Teams are linked and how to use a Class Notebook with an Assignment
- Demonstrate an understanding of the range of Accessibility tools within Office 365 to support various learning needs.
- Explain what Immersive Reader is, how to access it and how it can be used to support learning
Experience required
This ExpertTrack is designed for teachers who want to explore the use of technology to enrich their teaching experience.
You don’t need any prior knowledge of using Microsoft tools, however, you do need access to an Office 365 account in order for you to log in and practice the skills.
Getting started
The content in this ExpertTrack is best suited for existing teachers with a class of students to practice the skills you develop, but it is not mandatory.
ExpertTrack course overview
Course 1
Manage and Create Documents in Microsoft 365
Learn how to create and use online documents in Microsoft 365 to ensure your teaching practices are effective and efficient.
6 tests
2 peer-graded assignments
4 weeks
3 hours per week
Week 1
An Introduction to Microsoft Office 365 for Educators
- Welcome to the course
- What is Microsoft 365 for Education?
Week 2
Online Storage & Creating Documents
- Online Storage
- Creating and Managing Documents
Week 3
Sharing Documents & Working online
- Sharing Documents
- Working online
Week 4
Office 365 online apps
- Office 365 online apps
Course 2
Improve Student Assessment with Microsoft Forms
Learn how to integrate Microsoft Forms into your teaching practices to strengthen your lessons with improved assessments.
3 tests
1 peer-graded assignment
3 weeks
4 hours per week
Week 1
What is Microsoft Forms
- What is Microsoft Forms?
- Creating a Form
Week 2
Do more with Forms
- Do more with Forms
Week 3
Reviewing Responses
- Reviewing Responses
Course 3
Inclusive Learning with Microsoft Accessibility Tools
Discover the different accessibility tools within Office 365 and Windows to help you support learners with a range of needs.
3 tests
1 peer-graded assignment
3 weeks
2 hours per week
Week 1
Immersive Reader & Live Captions
- Immersive Reader
- Live Captions
- Checkpoint
Week 2
Accessibility Checker & Office Lens
- Accessibility Checker
- Office Lens
- Checkpoint
Week 3
Dictation
- Dictation
- Checkpoint
- Course Wrap-Up
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World-class learning with 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.
Meet your instructors
I'm an edtech enthusiast with 30+ years experience in education, 20+ years as a teacher and school leader. I'm a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert and Innovative Educator Master Trainer.
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