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Office 365 training opportunities for May

Micros 365 iconsAs part of K-State’s Office 365 subscription, the Microsoft Store provides free training on Office 365 applications. We have scheduled the following sessions with them for May:

See the session descriptions below.

All of the above sessions will be from 2-3:30 p.m. Registration is required. After you register, a confirmation will be sent to you with a link to the session. The sessions will be held in Microsoft Teams. When you click to join the meeting, you will be taken to a page where you can choose to either join on the web or download the desktop app. If you already have the Teams app, the meeting will open there automatically.

Excel L200

Take a dive into the intermediate features of Excel formatting, functions, and accessibility. Attendees taking this course should have a strong understanding of Excel’s basic features, navigation, functions, and custom formulas.

Objectives:

  • Expand knowledge of notable functions in Excel
  • Understand a wide variety of cell formatting to manipulate and interpret data
  • Learn to create Pivot tables for data analyzation
  • Understand options to restrict and protect data in Excel
  • Utilize accessibility options in Excel using the Check Accessibility tool and how to add alternative text

Register

OneNote

n this training, attendees will learn about OneNote, a digital note-taking app that provides a single place for keeping all of your notes, research, plans, and information. Notes are easy to organize, print, and share, and you can search and find important information quickly.

Training objectives:

  • Review OneNote’s integration in the Office 365 environment
  • Revisit navigation of popular modalities like OneNote Online and OneNote for Windows 10
  • Expand on formatting and rich assets like tags, dictation, and Outlook tasks in OneNote
  • Expand on Accessibility features in OneNote with Accessibility Checker, Immersive Reader, and Translate
  • Get familiar with secure sharing options in OneNote, how to protect your notebooks and pages with view and edit access and password
    protected sections

Register

Power Automate

Attendees taking this course will learn the basic elements of Power Automate, including an overview of types of flows, how to create flows from templates or from scratch, and understand how these can be integrated with existing systems and applications like Microsoft Teams.

Objectives:

  • Become an expert on accessing and navigating Power Automate
  • Understand key components of a Flow
  • Maximize efficiency through pre-built Flow templates
  • Get familiar with Connectors, Data Source, and AI Builder
  • Learn how to create your first Flow
  • Understand how your Flows can be integrated with your existing systems and applications such as Microsoft Teams

Register

Teams L100

Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365 that combines video meetings, persistent conversations, file storage, and applications together in one place. Teams allows people to communicate more effectively and work better together in a custom and secure environment. This course is designed as an introduction to Microsoft Teams that will demonstrate the value of the tool and give attendees all they need to get started working in their first Team. 

Objectives:

  • Learn how to create and participate in a Team, including how to navigate across requested modalities (e.g. desktop, mobile, tablet, etc.)
  • Understand how teams fits into their collaboration and productivity workflow
  • Learn how Teams integrates with Microsoft 365 and understand digital identity
  • Work more efficiently with connected apps in Teams
  • Get familiar with creating and participating in meetings

Register

Teams L200

Objectives:

  • Revisit application navigation to fortify understanding and introduce advanced features
  • Deep dive into integration with Microsoft 365 and third-party apps (e.g. Tabs, Apps, Bots)
  • In-depth look at SharePoint Online integration and document collaboration
  • Best practices for pre-meeting, meeting, and post-meeting
  • Utilize best practices for increasing response rates and managing their own notifications
  • Use Command/Search bar to navigate and find content more quickly

Register

Teams Live Events (Organizer)

Teams is for more than just communication and collaboration. Host a companywide keynote presentation or host a digital event for larger audiences.

Objectives:

  • Organizing a Teams live event including creation and sharing
  • Presenter functions including screen sharing, audio and video
  • Best practices to consider

Register

Teams Meetings L100

Objectives:

  • Understand meeting scenarios
  • Experience the meeting lifecycle and how to utilize Teams for better collaboration
  • Learn to schedule meetings from Teams or Outlook
  • Optimize settings to look and sound your best on camera during video meetings
  • Make use of all features within Teams meetings (e.g. whiteboard, etc.)
  • Utilize the meeting recording, notes, and chat for ongoing collaboration

Register

Word L200

This course will teach how to take word documents to the next level with advanced features. We will be looking at some of the advanced features including comparing and merging documents, creating and formatting a table of contents, document translation, and more.

Objectives:

  • Review where to find relevant features with the Ribbon
  • Learn how Compare and Merge can save time
  • Organize your work by creating a Table of Contents
  • Gather ideas and thoughts with Comments and Suggestions
  • Learn to quickly translate your work in sections or the entire document.
  • Convert documents into emails with Mail Merge, while preserving
    Formatting Options

Register

If you have any questions about any of these courses, contact the IT Help Desk (helpdesk@k-state.edu).

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