Office 365 Product Information
Class Notebook – This product functions like OneNote, but targeted more towards faculty. Class Notebooks make it possible to have a personal workspace for every student, a content library for handouts and a collaboration space for lessons and creative activities. Your lesson plans and course content can be organized within your own digital notebook and shared with your students.
Additional Details on Class Notebook
Tutorial for Creating and Using Class Notebook
Forms – Allows you to quickly and easily create custom quizzes, surveys, questionnaires, registrations and more. You can invite others to respond to your created and you can view results using built-in analytic tools. You can also export the results to Excel for additional analysis in tools such as SPSS.
Additional Details on Forms
OneDrive for Business – This product provides space in the cloud where you can store, share and sync your work files. You can update and share your files from any device with OneDrive for Business and even simultaneously edit and collaborate on Office documents with other users.
Additional Details on OneDrive for Business
OneDrive for Business Frequently Asked Questions
OneDrive for Business Usage Guide
OneNote – Intended for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. Allows you to gather notes (handwritten or typed), drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries into ‘pages’ organized into ‘sections’ within ‘notebooks’. OneNote notebooks can also be shared with other OneNote users.
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SharePoint Online– SharePoint is used to create websites where workgroups can store, organize, share and access information relevant to a particular job or task. The SharePoint Online product gives you the same abilities that an on-premises SharePoint server does, only it is cloud-based.
Additional Details on SharePoint Online (O365)
What is SharePoint?
Getting Started with SharePoint Online**
**Information Technology staff handles the creation of SharePoint (on premises) and SharePoint Online sites. Please email to inquire about setting up a SharePoint site.
Sway – A creative and interactive way to share reports, presentations, newsletters and personal stories.
Additional Details on Sway
Example of Sway Creation
Word, PowerPoint, Excel - These Office 365 products are online versions of the applications that run locally on your work or personal devices. The functionality is the same and files created and edited within them are automatically saved onto your OneDrive for Business unless you specify an alternate save location.
Yammer – Yammer is a private, secure social network that allows people to collaborate securely across departments. It helps to communicate company-wide information and to increase team efficiency.
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Most importantly, you can access any of these products anywhere that has an Internet connection.
You can login with your UHV username and password to access Microsoft Office 365 and its associated products from the following website: http://office.uhv.edu
Need more information?
Microsoft Office Training Center
OneDrive for Business
Office 365 for Home Use