Posts tagged "Tips"

Office Tips & Tricks: Embedding a Microsoft Form in a Sway

We’ve made a couple of posts about using Microsoft Sway to create interesting and visual presentations/digital stories.

Office Tips & Tricks: Add a checklist to a task in Planner

Have you tried out Microsoft’s Planner yet? It’s available as part of the Office 365 suite and is a simple ‘pin-board’ style planning tool which can be shared with others so you can all collaborate.

Office Tips & Tricks: 5 more ways to use Yammer

Interested in using Yammer but not sure where to start? Back in May, we posted five ways to use Yammer. If you missed it, you can catch up on that post here.

Office Tips & Tricks: Remix! and formatting with Sway

If you’ve used Sway, Microsoft’s visual storytelling/presentation program you’ll know that its auto-formatting function can be a great time saver.

Office Tips & Tricks: OneNote’s Class Notebook

Recently I’ve been chatting with academic colleagues about using OneNote’s Class Notebook available from the Office 365 homepage, for tutorial or personal tutor scenarios.

Office Tips & Tricks: Assign a task in Planner

Have you had a go with Microsoft’s aptly named Planner program (accessed via your Office 365 homepage)? Planner lets you create a board, add cards for tasks to do and share the plan with colleagues.

Office Tips & Tricks: Analyse data from your Microsoft Form

Are you a Microsoft Forms convert yet? If not, why not have a go at creating and using a Microsoft Form either for a quiz or survey. Find out how to get started by reading our blog post from 15 March.

Office Tips & Tricks: 5 ways to use Yammer

Interested in using Yammer but not sure where to start?
Here are five ideas to get you started using Yammer whether it’s for learning, teaching or assessment, within a group or as an individual user:

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Office Tips & Tricks: Adding a video to a Sway

If you’ve already explored Microsoft Sway, you’ll know that this digital storytelling package loves visuals. You can add images, but did you know it’s also easy to add video too?
 
From the Cards pane, just select a Video card.

Office Tips & Tricks: Split Excel data into 2 columns

Working with an Excel column of full names, but wishing you’d set this up as two separate columns? Luckily there’s an Excel trick to help you do this.