Microsoft Office 365 for education

Educators, staff, and students get anywhere access to email and calendars, Office Web Apps, video and online meetings, and document-sharing. Office 365 has your favorite Microsoft Office features online and allows you to better prepare coursework, create sophisticated reports and presentations, and collaborate over the web with fellow teachers or students. Find Office 365 resources for teachers.

​Teach from virtually anywhere, and reach more students

• Conduct and attend online classes: share high-resolution videos, applications, and desktops, so you can be fully present without physically being there.
• Minimize the learning curve and be productive right away with Microsoft Office tools you already know.
• Create class and group sites to share documents and information using Microsoft SharePoint. You can work together on projects in real time, because everyone has access to the documents and information they need from virtually anywhere.
• Hold office hours without being in the office. With Microsoft Lync Online, students and faculty can check presence and exchange instant messages (IMs), start or join a conference, make an online call or have a video chat.
• Work online or offline via Microsoft Office desktop applications on PCs and Macs. When you’re not on campus, you can access your Inbox with Outlook Web App, view and edit assignments with Word Web App, or join an online classroom with Lync Web App.

​Teach software skills employers are looking for

• Microsoft Outlook is the world's leading business e-mail software.
• Office 365 for education includes access to Office Web Apps built with the same Microsoft Office interface used by more than 500 million users worldwide.
• While students are communicating with peers, writing reports, analyzing data, and preparing presentations, they are also mastering the tools that can give them a competitive edge as they enter the job market.

​Provide enterprise-class tools, and help reduce costs

• Provide a hosted Microsoft Exchange solution at no cost with 25-gigabyte Inbox per person.
• Help keep teacher and student data private, and promote online safety.
• Provide students with free, online storage on Microsoft SkyDrive.
• Give your university a reliable and easy-to-manage solution with enhanced security.

Office 365 Education: Shared Calendars

Summer Term 2012, and your year eleven groups were on study leave. They were mainly a diligent, hard-working lot, and you smile when you think of them. So keen were they, in fact, that some of them couldn’t keep away.

‘Sonja Smith was here looking for you this morning,’ a colleague told you one lunchtime early in the leave period. ‘We couldn’t find you and I didn’t have your timetable. She was keen to ask you something that had come up in her revision. I think she was quite worried.’

She was just the first. Quite a few students called the school or came in on the off chance of catching you. Sometimes they were lucky and you were right there in the department office, or in the staffroom. Sometimes they waited around and eventually caught you. And sometimes they went away disappointed because they hadn’t time to hang around.

Jump ahead now, to Summer Term 2013. Your year eleven groups were on study leave again, and again they were mainly a diligent hard-working lot. Again some of them couldn’t keep away.

This time, though, there was to be no hanging around, or going away disappointed. This time you realised that if you put Office 365 Education to work, and did some forward planning, you might make study leave into a productive and enjoyable experience.

The secret, you realised, lay with Outlook Calendar, which you can share in whole or part with anyone you choose. So before study leave started you said to your groups.

‘I’m going to share my calendar with you all, showing when I’m available – sometimes before school, sometimes after, some of my free periods, some of my PPA time, some lunchtimes. I know you’re on your phones all the time, so keep checking because some of the availability might change – things can come up as you know. So if you want to see me, book into my calendar with a brief message saying what it’s about. The rest of you keep an eye on all that, because you might find you want to come along to the same meeting. The key thing is – keep in touch. Keep checking the calendar.’

Did it work? Of course it did. The students really appreciated being able to book specific slots. There were times when so many people came along to join a meeting booked by one person that it became almost like a lesson – except it was more relaxed.

And did the students do well in their exams? Of course they did. It would be too much to claim that they did better as a result of Office 365 Education and calendar sharing, but in some cases it wouldn’t be an unreasonable assumption. The whole exercise certainly did wonders for morale.

Office 365 administration roles and usage

In office 365 there are few admin roles can be assigned to selected users in the tenant to make the administration easier. If one person is handling all the tasks for example creating users, password reset, purchasing licences if needed, creating service request will be a headache for him.

At the same time we can  not give full permission to the selected users to do few tasks. in this case Microsoft office 365 has given us few administration roles which are different from each roles and the task are limited and different from each role.

Below the the administration roles available in office 365 and can be assigned for any selected user to manage certain ares than everything is managed by one person.

• Global Admin
• This administrator will have the full permission of all the admin roles in the office 365 tenant. he is also called as super admin. he can create, delete, edit users, reset password, assign administrative roles to other users, create service request, purchase licences, manage distribution groups and domain management.
• than the above mentioned task there are hundred of task that can be done by the global admin.
• Billing admin
• this is a limited permission account. 
• this admin can only do billing and purchasing tasks.
• he is responsible of doing payment purchasing license for the user when requested by the global admin or the user management admin.
• Password admin
• in a very large organisation this kind of admins are popular. mostly in every department or every country (if its a multinational organisation) there may be at least one password admin.
• this admins main role is to reset the password of the users on a case when the user forgot his o her password. he can only view the users and reset the password on their request.
• to reduce the word load of the global admin he appoint few password admins so they can reset the passwords of the users than coming to the global admin or the user management admin.
• Service admin
• On office 365 the service request is one of thee great service offed by Microsoft.
• on a technical or any other situation on office 365 and if the administrators cant solve it we can escalate it to Microsoft office 365 team. the Expert team. 
• a service admin can open a service request and follow the service request with Microsoft rather than its also done by the global admin. 
• User management admin
• creating users managing users can be done by a user management administrator.
• This kind of role is assigned in a large organisation which has a large number of departments across the world. 
• this admin can create, delete, manage users in office 365.
• but this user cannot assign admin roles to others users. it is done only by the global admin.

Microsoft Intros 200GB SkyDrive Plan Ahead of Windows 8.1, Surface 2

The OS and tablet company unveils a new SkyDrive storage option in a bid to get Windows users to park more of their data on the cloud.

Microsoft launched a new SkyDrive plan weeks ahead of the impending releases of Windows 8.1 and Surface 2 tablets.

The cloud storage service now provides 200GB of additional capacity for $100 per year. The move comes as the software giant prepares to bring out the sweeping Windows 8.1 update and new Surface 2 tablets, both of with feature deep SkyDrive integration.

"SkyDrive is the default location for saving your files," in Windows 8.1, Omar Shahine, group program manager of SkyDrive.com, noted in a Sept. 23 blog post. "We didn’t want you to worry about filling up your hard drive, so we invented smart files to allow you to access your entire SkyDrive from your device, without actually having to store everything locally."

For some perspective, Shahine offered that "200GB is enough space to take a photo, every hour, from the moment someone is born, to the day they graduate from college.

Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 buyers get 200GB of storage for two years, free of cost, along with a free year of access to Skype WiFi and free Skype calling to landlines in more than 60 countries, also for a year. Both tablets are available for preorder.

This summer, the company unveiled new enhancements that will enable Windows 8.1 and SkyDrive to work together more seamlessly and provide users with a more responsive experience that minimizes the delay that is sometimes associated with fetching files on cloud storage services. On July 22, Mona Akmal group program manager of SkyDrive apps, announced in an Inside SkyDrive blog post, that Microsoft is adding placeholder file technology to the OS.

"Placeholder files look and feel like normal folders and files" and can be edited, saved and deleted just like local files. "This means that the placeholder file is significantly smaller in size [than] the file in SkyDrive, but when you need to use it, we'll download the full file for you," she stated.

So far, the technology seems to help users stretch the on-board storage of their Windows 8.1 devices, said Akmal. "Early data in the weeks since Windows 8.1 Preview was released suggests that this architecture is delivering on the goals we set out with, and SkyDrive files are taking up less than 5 percent of the local disk space that they would have taken in the old system."

The new 200GB capacity follows SkyDrive Pro upgrades for Office 365 users. Default SkyDrive Pro account holders are now entitled to 25GB of document and file storage, compared with 7GB. The update brings added benefits for businesses that have adopted the cloud-enabled productivity software suite.

"With Office 365, you get 25GB of SkyDrive Pro storage + 25GB of  email storage + 5GB for each site mailbox you create + your total available tenant storage, which for every Office 365 business customer starts at 10GB + (500MB x # of user(s))," Mark Kashman and Tejas Mehta, Microsoft SharePoint marketing senior product managers, wrote in an Aug. 27 company blog post.

Office 365 for education

Free for schools, Microsoft’s Office 365 offers faculty and students exciting new ways to collaborate. Easy to administer and even easier to use, Microsoft’s Office 365 is backed by the robust security and guaranteed reliability you expect from a world class service provider. With email, instant messaging, calendar, video conferencing, document storage and more, Office 365 offers powerful cloud-computing technology, anytime, anywhere.

The Catholic International Education Office (OIEC) has entered into an education alliance with Microsoft Corp. to provide Office 365 for its community of Catholic schools across the world as part of a new Social Network for Catholic Education. Read

Office 365 for Education gives students and teachers the tools they need to be successful

With Office 365 teachers can conduct online classes, record them, and share with anyone who is online or offline. Teachers can also keep your students informed and on track with Class and Group sites with SharePoint Online 2012 where you can share documents and collaborate on projects from any location. You can view, edit, and share Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files online with your students through SharePoint and Office Web Apps. This allows teachers to create and distribute student assignments and projects.

No need to learn new software
Office 365 works with the Microsoft Office tools teachers and students already count on. The rich set of privacy, security, and protection capabilities built into Office 365 keeps user and project information safe. Microsoft also provides 24 by 7 global support for subscribers in your local language.

Ideas for use

• Develop lesson plans and share them with other teachers
• Keep up with student work with their online digital notebook
• Record lessons and post them on a class site
• Foster technology skills in students to enable success in the workplace
• Use Lync and allow group members to collaborate online
• Work together in real time in Excel or OneNote anywhere
• Give tutoring sessions online using Lync
• Store documents on SharePoint and access them through a mobile device
• Easy to use document creation tools to create quality reports, spreadsheets, and presentations

Send an email with the new interface

A step bye step short video to show how to send an email step by step.

About the mail fields

• TO
• CC
• BCC 

find from the below link
http://o365education.blogspot.com/2013/09/what-is-to-cc-bcc-in-email.html

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How to log in to office 365 for the 1st time

How to log in to office 365 portal as you get you user name and temporary password.

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SkyDrive Pro storage increases making it even better for storing and sharing class work

For me, Office 365 Education just keeps getting better and better. SkyDrive Pro, part of Office 365 Education Plan A2¹, is cloud storage for education, and is the place where students and teachers can store, sync, and share their files across multiple devices with ease and security. To date SkyDrive Pro has offered institutions 7GB of cloud storage per user but yesterday Mark Kashman and Tejas Mehta, senior product managers in the SharePoint team, announced that the SkyDrive pro storage increases making it even better for storing and sharing class work.

¹Plan A2 is free for students, faculty and staff and includes Exchange Online Plan 1, Lync Online Plan 2, SharePoint Online Plan 1 and the Office Web Apps. You can sign up for free online!

Each user now gets 25 GB of SkyDrive Pro storage space

Let’s look at the headlines:

• Each user now gets 25 GB of SkyDrive Pro storage space (up from 7 GB).
• You can now increase users' SkyDrive Pro storage beyond the default 25 GB-up to 50 GB and 100 GB.
• With the new Shared with Me view, you can easily find documents others have shared with you.

I think this is a great improvement for schools, colleges and universities who are using Office 365 Education as it means their students and teachers can keep more files in the cloud, accessible from everywhere, and the fact that an administrator can increase that quota up to 100GB for individuals means that even the most demanding users should still have enough storage to keep them happy for a long time.

Don’t forget that there are applications for SkyDrive Pro on a variety of platforms includingWindows 8 and iOS that make it easier to access your files on the go.

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Top ten tips for using Office 365 education

Top Tip #10 – Blogging in SharePoint Online

Whether you want a class blog, or your own blog to share with your students, the blogging capabilities in SharePoint Online allow teachers and students to quickly and easily write up their thoughts, ideas and showcase their progress in a secure environment. You can even customise the look and feel of the blogs to make them more appealing for younger pupils.

Top Tip #9 – Multiple Co-Authoring in Office Web Apps

Working on class projects has never been easier thanks to the Office Web Apps and their ability to support multiple authors of spreadsheets and documents at the same time! Being able to collaborate on work in the classroom (and at home!) is really important and the Office Web Apps enable anyone with access to a supported browser and an Internet connection to get involved.

Top Tip #8 – Excel Surveys

How many times have you needed to survey your students and staff for their feedback? This doesn’t just apply to teaching and learning, but also the IT department, facilities, finance, almost anyone in the institution. It couldn’t be more simple to create a survey in Excel that can capture a variety of answer types (yes/no, multiple choice, text, date, etc.) into a spreadsheet automatically. This can be shared amongst your students and staff, or publicly.

Student feedback is particularly important in universities. Many still spend time printing thousands of sheets of paper each year only to have to input that data back into a computer! Why not cut out the paper middle-man and use an Excel Survey?

Top Tip #7 – Following content in SharePoint Online

In a mature SharePoint Online environment there might be thousands of sites, files and other content that may or may not be useful to every student or member of staff. Sometimes you stumble upon a really useful resource either by searching or by accident and now you can keep track of it by following the content in your newsfeed.

Top Tip #6 – Outlook Web App on Mobile Devices

When a school, TAFE or university is using shared devices, such as tablets, it isn’t always possible to personally configure the applications for a particular user; this is where the web apps in Office 365 really come into their own. The Outlook Web App on mobile devices is excellent, and will automatically switch format based on the type of device you’re using whether it’s a mobile phone, tablet or full PC device.

Top Tip #5 – Multiple Calendar Views in OWA

This is one of my favourite tips. In the Outlook Web App you can add multiple calendars to view on one screen. This is extremely useful when it comes to planning tutorials, meetings, and other events as you can overlay many people’s calendars to see when the most suitable time would be to arrange something. No more lengthy email threads trying to work out when everyone can make it!

There are even Microsoft partners out there who have developed solutions to automatically fill your calendar with your school timetable so that it’s available instantly, wherever you go.

Top Tip #4 – Drag ‘n’ Drop in SkyDrive Pro

Uploading files to anywhere in the past has always been a bit of a chore. Having to click browse, find your individual file, upload and repeat quickly becomes a nightmare. In the new Office 365 you can simply drag and drop multiple files into a documents library and see them get uploaded automatically – simple!

Top Tip #3 – Lync Online Web Scheduler

If you don’t have Outlook client available to you then scheduling a Lync meeting might seem like an impossible task; not so with the Lync Online Web Scheduler. Now it’s easy to configure your meeting settings via the browser. With the latest updates to Office 365 you can event schedule a Lync Online meeting straight from the Outlook Web App.

Top Tip #2 – SharePoint Online Social Networking

The humble # symbol probably never thought it would get such exposure before Twitter launched, but now the #hashtag is king, with @mentions and “likes” not far behind. In SharePoint Online you can use these familiar social networking features to share content and conversations with others in your class.

Top Tip #1 – Offline Access

I’d like to think we live in a world where connection to the Internet is practically everywhere, but speak to anyone who has been along the coast, away from a city recently and they’ll tell you that being offline is not unusual! Thankfully, just because you’re using services that are in the cloud does not mean that you suffer when you lose your Internet access. With the new Office 365 there is an offline mode for OWA, and of course the old favourite, the Office and SkyDrive Pro clients to keep you going when your connection lets you down.

Top Tip #0 – Supercharged Office 365 Storage

This is my bonus tip! Since putting the original top 10 tips together we’ve supercharged the storage options in Office 365. Now students and staff get to benefit from 25 GB of free SkyDrive Pro storage, with options to increase that up to 100 GB! Equally, students, staff and alumni also get their inbox quotas doubled from 25 GB to 50 GB, free!

Helpfully, we’ve also increased the individual file upload limits from 250 MB per file to 2 GB per file, and made it even easier to restore documents. Now it’s much easier to store those important multimedia or design technology coursework files online, securely, and accessible from anywhere.

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