Office 365

OneDrive - Have you ever needed to work on a school document when you were at home? Are you fed up with copying files to and from memory sticks? Do you often collaborate with several colleagues on a report? Well, OneDrive is the answer. It is online file storage and sharing for each user, with unlimited storage. With OneDrive, your files are secure and available everywhere: home, school or on the move. Edit and co-author whether using a web browser, mobile apps, or desktop apps. Easily share files with colleagues, making collaboration a breeze. Even access files when offline using the OneDrive sync client.

OneNote - If you're not using OneNote already, then you're missing out. This is probably the greatest program in the whole Microsoft Office suite. Organise everything; typed notes, handwritten notes, pictures, videos, files, audio recording and more all in one place. Add extra notebooks, sections and pages to keep everything just as you like it. And you don't even have to worry about saving work as you go along - it all happens automatically. A OneNote app is available for all devices and you can also work online directly via a web browser. And if you are using an app, then you can work in OneNote while you are offline, and everything will sync once you connect to the web again. Trust me, it's great. Try it.

Learning Tools - Immersive Reader, Forms, Sway, and Office Mix - There are a whole bunch of apps and tools available within Office 365 which can be used both to help with learning, and to just generally create more engaging and accessible content that you can then easily share with others.

• Immersive Reader - Change font size, text spacing, background colour. Split up words into syllables. Highlight verbs, nouns adjectives and sub-clauses. Choose between two fonts optimised to help with reading. Read out text aloud. Change speed of reading.
  
• Forms - Create surveys, polls and custom quizzes. Easily share via e-mail, a web link, or embed in a web page. Then sit back and wait for the response to come in.
• Sway - Create interactive, digital presentations that can easily be shared on the web. Add text, pictures, videos, audio and more. View on your computer, phone or tablet. It is proper web content and so looks great on all devices!
• PowerPoint Recording - Turn your PowerPoint presentations into interactive online lessons and share them with your students and colleagues. Add audio and video narration, real-time digital inking, and screen recordings that show actions you take on your computer.

E-mail and Calendars - OK, so you are already using this, but did you know:

• Automatically filter out low priority e-mails using the Focused inbox feature. As move e-mails you rarely read into the "Other" folder, and out of your "Focused" inbox, the system will learn and start to do this automatically for you.
• No excuses for missing emails. Use @Mentions to get noticed. @mention someone in an e-mail and they will automatically be added to the list of recipients. The person receiving the e-mail will see the @ symbol in their inbox.
• Access e-mail and calendars via web browser, desktop or mobile apps. So you can stay in touch wherever you are and across all devices.

Skype for Business - Have you ever wanted to invite a subject expert to talk to your class, but they live too far away? Do you want to cut down on travel costs and time between different school sites for meetings? Then it might be time to give Skype for Business a whirl. Skype can give you instant messaging, video conferencing and screen sharing. See your colleagues status (presence information), so you know at a glance if they are available for a chat or quick meeting. Conversations are protected by strong authentication and encryption. The Skype for Business app is available for mobile, tablet, PC and Mac.

SharePoint - Does your school have to share certain information and documents with all staff? Do you need to control who has access? Do you need to let some people update information, while letting others only read it? If the answer to those questions is yes, then SharePoint is for you. You might like to think of SharePoint as being a shared staff folder, but on the web. Actually it is much more. With SharePoint show important visuals, news, and updates with a team or communication site. Discover, follow, and search for sites, files, and people across your company. And not forgetting that you can sync and store your files in the cloud so anyone can securely work with you. SharePoint integrates with the Microsoft Office apps allowing you to work and collaborate on documents from PC, Mac or mobile device.

Security and Compliance - Are you worried about GDPR compliance? Would you like to let your staff use their mobile phones to access e-mail, but you are worried about data security? Then you'll just love the Security and Compliance features that are built into Office 365. Just take a butcher's at these features:

• Threat management - protect e-mail messages from malicious software.
• Mobile device management (MDM) - unleash those phones.
• Data loss prevention (DLP) - help to stop sensitive data leaving the organisation.
• Data governance - Document labelling and retention policies.
• Search and investigation including eDiscovery.
• Service Assurance - Information about how Microsoft protects your data.
• Office 356 Secure Score - Learn how secure your Office 365 is, and how you can imrpove.

Delve - Have you ever wanted to find all the documents around a particular subject? Or is there a member of staff you are about to have a meeting with, and you need to get up to speed on what have been working on recently? Delve can help. It intelligently discovers and organises information from across your whole school's Office 365, and then displays it to you making everything easy to find and understand. Find work by particular people or search on a keyword or subject. And you'll only ever see the content you have access to. Finding content has never been so easy.

Office Online - Create and edit Word, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Excel documents from a browser. And if you have a school EES agreement you get all the desktop and mobile apps as well, which you can download and install on up to 5 different devices per user. So you can start a document in on your computer at school, then finish editing and reviewing it on your iPad at home that evening.

Stream - Do you have lots of videos that would like to share securely with the rest of the school? Then you'll like Stream. Easily manage and share videos across your school. Group videos of similar content together in channels. Embed individual videos or channels into other Office 365 services such as SharePoint or Teams. Control who can see which videos, and feel safe in the knowledge that only people with a login for your school's Office 365 will be able to see the videos.

Planner - Take the chaos out of teamwork and get more done! Planner makes it easy for your team to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, chat about what you’re working on, and get updates on progress. Each plan has its own board, where you can organize tasks into buckets. You can categorize tasks based on their status or on whom they’re assigned to. To update the status or change assignments, just drag and drop tasks between columns.

• Work on documents directly within Teams using the familiar office apps.
• The persistent chat-based nature of the Teams means that everyone stays up to date with what is happening, even if they have been away for a few days.
• Use Teams to create online classrooms. Hand out assignments or homework online. Children can complete and return them without ever going near a printer or a piece of paper.
• Combine with Class Notebook for a truly any time, any place learning experience.
• Teams is available via a web browser, PC and Mac, and mobile apps.

• Organize your lesson plans and course content in your own digital notebook.
• Students can go to the content library to get their assignments. No more printed handouts for the class.
• The collaboration space encourages students to work together as the teacher provides real-time feedback and coaching.
• Provide individualized support by typing or writing directly in each student's private notebook.

StaffHub - Do you have first line workers who don't spend their whole day sat in front of a computer? Do you need an easy and reliable way to manage their work schedules and get other important information to them? Would you like those workers to be able to easily stay in touch and communicate with each other? StaffHub is the answer, allowing you to digitally transform your first line workforce.

• Easily create and manage schedules on the go, and stay informed when changes are made. Quickly assign and complete tasks to address customer and business needs in the moment.
• Create spaces for meaningful conversation where workers can share ideas, learn from one another, and gain insight into larger, organizational initiatives.
• Deliver employee resources and training content that workers need to gain the skills and confidence they need to do their best work.