Groups allow students and teachers to work in highly collaborative and connected ways. Here are a few notes the EdTech Facilitators used when introduced Groups to teams.
EdTech @ ISB
Transforming Teaching & Learning
Tag: Office 365 (page 2 of 2)
You may have noticed a folder in your Outlook email called Clutter. Clutter is a feature designed to move “low priority” mail out of your Inbox and into its own folder. The idea is that it saves you time when scanning through your mail. Clutter sorts your email based on how you’ve handled emails in the past and then continues to learn as from you as you sort your email. For example, if you drag an email from Clutter to your Inbox it will learn not to identify emails from that sender as Clutter.
You can learn more about Cutter here. Please note that the page says it’s for Outlook 2016 for Windows but it’s almost exactly the same as Outlook 2016 for Mac.
Working collaboratively in Office 365 is great, but sometimes it gets a little murky who has edited what and when. Fortunately, we have the ability to set up documents to alert authors every time a modification is made. There is a bit of clicking around to find this feature, but in the end it’s worth it to be kept up to date on a collaborative document. Alerts can be set on any Office document. It’s great to be notified each time someone answers a survey you may have sent out. Please note that you can only set an alert on documents you created, not ones that have been shared with you.
Go to your OneDrive
In the lower left hand corner select “Return to classic OneDrive”
Click the gear icon in the upper right hand corner
Select “Show Ribbon”
Select File, then the Alert Me icon that looks like a bell
From here, you will be able to choose your alert preferences, such as frequency of notification and whether you would like to receive an email or an SMS.
Surveys can be valuable to collect information and opinions from your team or from your students. No longer are they limited to Google Surveys! Did you know you can create one right in Office 365?
Click here for a tutorial blog post on how to create Excel surveys.
- Go to: https://portal.office.com/ and click on Calendar.
- In the Calendar interface:
Step 1 – Select the calendar group which you want make appointment
Step 2 – Double click on the time slot to make an appointment. (e.g. I want to have a meeting with Jenny in room 2411 from 9:00-10:00 on November 3rd.
Step 3 – Type meeting name, select time and select your group calendar and any other details you wish to have.
Step 4 – Add a location – begin typing locationck that time slot on the Calendar, choose “More details” on the lower right corner. (Follow step1,2,3)
Step 3 – Type meeting name, select time and select your group calendar and any other details you wish to have.
Step 4 – Add a location – Click on “Add room” and choose a location from the list.
Step 5 – Add people – Start typing the name of the person you want to invite and choose from the list provided. To view the invitee’s schedule, click on “Scheduling assistant”.
Below is mine and her schedule at Nov3.It shows she just busy at 11:40-12:20.
So 9:00-10:00 is fine for her. Choose “OK” to return the main panel.
- Then I need check the room whether available at that time as well.
I named the appointment “Meeting about ****”, then click “Add room” button. System will show up all the free Venues that time. I find the room 2411 and choose it. If you can’t find your desire room there, you may need change another room.
- We can change the time, If this is a weekly meeting, choose ”Every Tuesday”.
You can choose which calendar you want to add this meeting; change the reminder time(default is 15min) ;”Show as” is the status others can see your schedule. If you don’t want others know about this meeting’s location and attendees, check the “Private”box.
At the end, you can write the message that you want send to those attendees in the bottom input box.
Then click the send button on the top-left.Those attendees will get a email,they can choose whether attend this meeting.
I’ll get an email If Jenny accept or refuse this date.
- If I make a mistake create this appointment and want to cancel it. Just find this appointment in my calendar, right click it, choose “send the cancellation now”, this appointment will disappear from my calendar. Or choose “Edit the cancellation before sending”, which way you can write to the attendees the reason why you cancel it.
OneNote Clipper is a handy extension for your web browser. It works with Chrome, Safari or Firefox. Clipper let’s you easily clip webpages or parts of pages and save them directly to a OneNote notebook.This makes it really handy when doing research, planning a trip or clipping anything else you want to remember.
To get OneNote Clipper on your computer just use your favourite web browser to go to https://www.onenote.com/clipper and follow the instructions to install the extension.
Over the summer ISB set up Microsoft Office 365 for all students and faculty. Office 365 is similar to Google Drive which means you can use Word Online, PowerPoint Online as well as check school email etc. Every user has one terabyte of storage in the system! That’s a lot of bytes that are available wherever you have an internet connection.
To start using Office 365 go to https:portal.office.com and sign in with your school email address and password. Once there click on the OneDrive icon and the system will set up your storage space. Office 365 is great for collaboration so you’ll find it useful for group projects.
© 2025 EdTech @ ISB
Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑
Recent Comments