Office 365
Email and Calendar
Outlook is Microsoft's information manager web app consisting of webmail, calendaring, contacts, and tasks services. Outlook's Office integration allows you to share attachments right from OneDrive, as well as to share calendar invitations directly with members of the ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø community. Also, by installing the Zoom Add-In for Webmail/Outlook, you can schedule Zoom meetings directly from within those applications.
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OneDrive
OneDrive is Office 365’s cloud storage platform, providing a place in the cloud where you can store, share, and sync your work files. OneDrive allows you to work collaboratively with colleagues on Office documents and to sync them to Office apps on your computer. OneDrive provides a great option for student online file sharing and collaborative work.
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OneNote
OneNote is a digital note-taking application that allows for free-form information gathering as well as multi-user collaboration. Users can enter typed or handwritten notes, drawings, audio recordings, file attachments, screen clippings, and even video! If you do a lot of note-taking during class or meetings, collaborate on projects, or just need a better way to organize your day to day notes, OneNote can help make all of that centralized and tidy across all of your devices. Everything within OneNote is searchable, and your notebooks can be accessed via OneDrive for use anywhere.
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Teams
Teams is a college-supported platform for connecting synchronously among staff and faculty and with students. It is Microsoft’s Skype for Business replacement, which will go away on July 31st, 2021. The Teams app is available for download in MacOs, Windows, Android, and iOS. Teams allows you to schedule meetings which are open to the ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø community and to other invitees. During meetings, you can share your presentation, use the chat feature for text-based conversation, and have participants start one-on-one and small group chats with each other. Faculty can use Teams as an alternative to Zoom to deliver synchronous lectures during scheduled class meeting time.
Note: You do not need to create or request a Team in order to use any of the features described above.