Microsoft Office 365 is a set of cloud services available free to education entities from Microsoft. With your Microsoft Office 365 account, you receive access to the following services: For now, we are focusing on just a few of the services available through Microsoft Office 365. We encourage you to investigate some of these other tools on your own. Mail Mail provides cloud based email hosted on Microsoft servers. Your Microsoft Office 365 account allows 50 GB of email storage and will allow you to send attachments up to 150 MB. Having your mail stored in the cloud means you can access it just
Calendar Calendar allows you to share existing calendars as well as create additional calendars. Add events, invite people to meetings, create reminders, all this to help you with your busy day-to-day tasks. Having your calendars stored in the cloud means you can access them just People People is basically your JISD contacts in the cloud. However, People gives you more flexibility. Create your own email groups, add personal contacts, quickly find the person you are looking for to aide in your productivity. Having People stored in the cloud means you can access them just Yammer Yammer is your company's private social network that helps you and your teams stay on top of it all. Start conversations, collaborate on files, and organize around projects so everyone is on the same page.
Newsfeed The SharePoint Newsfeed app allows you to interact with your organization s SharePoint social network while on the go. You can easily navigate your feeds and participate in conversations on your company feed or in the SharePoint sites you are following. OneDrive Microsoft OneDrive provides 1 TB of online storage for your files. Think of it as a home directory that is available to you on the internet. These files can be synced to your local computer or accessed on your mobile device using the OneDrive app. SharePoint Organizations use SharePoint to create websites. You can use it as a secure place to store, organize, share, and access information from almost any device. Tasks Tasks is your online To Do List. You can set reminders and deadlines and even link it with your Calendars or even share it in OneNote. Having Tasks stored in the cloud means you can access them just
Delve Delve helps you discover the information that's likely to be most interesting to you right now - across Office 365. Find information about people - and through people - and help others find you. You don't have to remember the title of a document or where it's stored. Delve shows you documents no matter where they're stored in OneDrive for Business or SharePoint in Office 365. Delve never changes any permissions, so you'll only see documents that you already have access to. Other people will not see your private documents. Video Office 365 Video is an intranet website portal where people in your organization can post and view videos. It's a streaming video service for your organization that's available with SharePoint Online in Office 365. It's a great place to share videos of executive communications or recordings of classes, meetings, presentations, or training sessions, for example. Office 365 Video displays a thumbnail image of each video on the site. You just select a thumbnail to view a particular video. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote Online Word Online, Excel Online, PowerPoint Online, and OneNote Online are the free versions of corresponding Microsoft Office applications available through Microsoft Office 365 on the internet. While these versions do have some limitations, they are usable right from your web browser without the need to install anything to your local computer. The online versions are ideal for students and staff that do not have a copy of Microsoft Office on their home computer.
Sway Sway is a free app from Microsoft Office that helps gather, format, and share your ideas, stories, and presentations on an interactive, web-based canvas that looks great on virtually any screen. You can easily create a new Sway by adding text, pictures, documents, videos, charts, or any other type of content, and Sway will make it look great in just a few easy steps. When you re ready to tell your story, Sway makes it easy to share it with others. And, like all other applications, you can access Sway material anywhere you have a computer and internet access.