Office 365
UTHSC subscribes to Microsoft 365. As a result, faculty, staff, and students have access to a suite of helpful productivity tools to facilitate learning activity, engage learners, organize work, and collaborate with others. Students can also use these tools to create class projects and presentations, organize class notes, and manage their daily schedules.
Microsoft 365 tools are FERPA- and HIPAA-compliant and you will also have access to 1TB of individual storage space in secure OneDrive. Simply login with your NetId and Password to access any of these applications.
Excel Video Tutorials
PowerPoint Tutorials
Word Tutorials
Yammer Tutorials
Forms Tutorials
Outlook Tutorials
Sway Resources
Teams Tutorials
Calendar is the calendar and scheduling application that is fully integrated with email, contacts, and other features.
Class Notebooks have a personal workspace for every student, a content library for handouts, and a collaboration space for lessons and creative activities.
Use Delve to manage your Office 365 profile, and to discover and organize the information that's likely to be most interesting to you right now - across Office 365.
OneDrive gives you one place to store, share, and sync your work or school files. As part of your organization's Office 365 subscription, you can save your files in OneDrive and then work with them from almost any device.
With Microsoft OneNote, teachers can create notebooks that help them stay organized, deliver curriculum, and collaborate with students and colleagues.
With Planner you can create new plans, assign tasks, and share files with others. Organize teamwork and collaborate on projects in a simple, visual way. Chat with others to make sure you're on the same page. Keep track of your team's progress and stay on top of your work—from anywhere, on any device.
With Outlook Tasks, you can combine your various lists into one list, enhanced with reminders and tracking.
Tasks Tutorials
Teaching Resources
- Microsoft 365 Training Center
- 20 Way to Use Yammer in Education
- How Faculty and students can use Microsoft 365 to work together on a document in real time in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint
- Use Microsoft Teams and Yammer to create teams and provide students with immersive experiences that mirror today’s workplace
- Use Class Notebook to collaborate and keep project notes organized
- Effective Use of PowerPoint from the University of Central Florida Teaching and Learning Center
- These PowerPoint Video tutorials contain quick video lessons in design, images, and sharing from Microsoft
- For annotations and using your cursor as a "laser pointer" in the presentation, first learn to turn your mouse into a laser pointer
- How to record your narrations as you navigate through your PowerPoint presentation
- How to turn your presentation with recorded narrations, annotations, and highlighting into a video
- Sway for Education by Microsoft is for individuals to interact with a Sway and access examples
- Top 10 Tips and Tricks to Make Your Sways Look Great!
- You can create a new Sway from an existing presentation that is in Word, PowerPoint, or PDF by using the Import function
- Make your Sway more engaging by embedding multimedia and external tools from sources including Padlet, Poll Everywhere, and YouTube
- Collaborate with others on Sway to complete a project
Research Articles
Chand, D. (2018, February 9). UNSW increases student engagement with Microsoft Teams.
Ray, T. (2016, January 8). Cool ideas to get started with office 365 in your classroom.
Independence University. (2017, August 30). 6 Benefits of Using Yammer as an Online College Student.
Wylie, J. (2015, February). Collecting Digital Assignments from Students in Office 365 Schools.