As part of K-State’s Office 365 subscription, the Microsoft Store provides free training on Office 365 applications. The following sessions are scheduled for November and December:
- 11/10 – Get started with Microsoft Teams– Join the Teams session (no registration required)
- 11/14 – Get started with Microsoft Excel – Join the Teams session (no registration required
- 11/28 – Microsoft Power Platform Foundations – Join the Teams session (no registration required)
- 11/30 – Go further with Microsoft SharePoint Online – Join the Teams session (no registration required)
- 12/08 – Increase collaboration with Microsoft Teams – Join the Teams session (no registration required)
- 12/15 – Microsoft Lists – Join the Teams session (no registration required)
All of the above sessions will be from 2-3:30 p.m.
When you click to join the Teams meeting, you will be taken to a page where you can either join on the web or download the desktop app. If you already have the Teams app, the meeting will open there automatically.
Getting started with Microsoft Excel
A beginner overview of Microsoft Excel for the new or novice user, this training will review overall navigation, formatting, simple formulas, charts and tables, and an overview of printing.
Objectives:
- Navigate Excel ribbon options
- Format Excel workbooks and worksheets
- Use formulas, functions and validate to work with data
- Learn print processes for Excel workbooks
Get started with Microsoft Teams
Get to know Microsoft Teams and learn the top five tasks to help you collaborate and get work done, all in one place. This course introduces the fundamentals of how to navigate the Teams app, meet in Teams, and start having conversations.
Objectives:
- Learn to navigate Microsoft Teams
- Send a chat message
- Understand teams and channels
- Create and join a meeting
- Locate files in Teams
Go further with Microsoft SharePoint Online
Understand more the advanced features of SharePoint. Learn about sharing and permissions, workflow management and content types.
Objectives:
- Understand SharePoint Online team sites, communication sites, and hub sites
- Plan a successful site by using best practiced for functionality
- Customize the look of a SharePoint site
- Build a site and utilize web parts
- Set approvals for documents
- Analyze usage data for a site
- Manage audio conferencing bridges
Increase collaboration with Microsoft Teams
Working together is easier with Microsoft Teams. Tools and files are always available in one place that’s designed to help you connect naturally, stay organized, and bring ideas to life. Learn how to make the most of channels, chat, and connected apps to improve communication and deepen collaboration across teams of all sizes.
Objectives:
- Stay connected with chat
- Create a collaborative workspace
- Accomplish more together in teams and channels
Microsoft Lists
Learn to stay on top of it all with Lists, the smart information tracking app in Microsoft 365.
Objectives:
- Navigate and understand core functionality of Microsoft Lists
- Create, share, and track lists
- Customize with custom views
- Build lists from a template
- Understand SharePoint Online andTeams integrations
- Understand column types
Microsoft Power Platform foundations
Using Microsoft Power Platform in Microsoft Teams allows organizations to bring key information, common tools, and trusted process to the place where they gather, learn, and work. This training will show the capabilities of Microsoft Power Platform in Teams and the ways business can use them.
Objectives:
- Identify types of apps, data types, relational data
- Build concepts for low-code apps in Teams
- Understand how to create workflows using <templates
- Create and enable chatbots for simple conversational AI (artificial intelligence)
- Organize and filter data for easy-to-use reporting purposes
