Module 1: History of Microsoft Office and office 365
- History/Software Ecosystem Concepts
- History of Microsoft Office
- History of Office 365 and SharePoint
- History of Business Intelligence
- Power BI
- Power Platform
Module 2: Overview of Office 365 components and tools
- Focusing of the specific apps that are of particular interest to the organisation from the following stack apps:
- Admin: Your admin web portal – for managing people accounts and settings for each subscription.
- Bookings: Microsoft Bookings is an online and mobile app for small businesses who provide services to customers on an appointment basis.
- Calendar: Schedule and share meeting and event times, and automatically receive reminders.
- Compliance: Meet your organisation's legal, regulatory and technical standards for content security and data use.
- Delve: Get personal insights and relevant information based on who you work with and the content you work on.
- Excel: Do more with the tool you already know. Discover and connect to data, model and analyse it, and visualise insights.
- Flow: Create workflows between your apps, files and data to automate time-consuming tasks so you can focus on what's next.
- Forms: Create surveys, quizzes and polls in minutes. Send them to anyone and easily see results in real time.
- Graph API: Microsoft Graph provides a unified programmability model that you can use to build apps for organizations and consumers that interact with the data of millions of users.
- Groups: Groups in Office 365 let you choose a set of people that you wish to collaborate with and easily set up a collection of resources for those people to share.
- Kaizala: a phone-number based, simple, and secure mobile chat app that enables you to connect and coordinate work across your network – your organization, vendors, partners, suppliers, and customers.
- Myanalytics: Explore your work patterns with MyAnalytics and learn ways to work smarter—improving your focus, wellbeing, network, and collaboration.
- OneDrive: Store your files in one place, share them with others and get to them from any device connected to the Internet.
- OneNote: Capture notes by typing, drawing or writing. OneNote lets you organise and reuse your notes across all of your devices.
- Outlook: Use business-class email through a rich and familiar Outlook experience you can access from your desktop or a web browser.
- People: Organise your contact info for all your friends, family, colleagues and acquaintances in one place. It's faster than ever to keep in touch.
- Planner: Create new plans, organise and assign tasks, share files, chat about what you're working on and get progress updates with Planner.
- Power BI: Create actionable, dynamic and engaging data dashboards to share with your company, school or university.
- Power Apps: Build mobile and web apps with the data your organisation already uses.
- PowerPoint: Take your presentation to the next level. Design like a professional.
- Project: Develop project plans, assign tasks, track progress and manage budgets while staying on schedule.
- Security: Robust security, reliability which is is continuously updated to enhance security.
- SharePoint: Share and manage content, knowledge and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information and seamlessly collaborate across the organisation.
- Stream: Share videos of classes, meetings, presentations, training sessions or other videos with people in your company, school or university.
- Sway: Create and share engaging interactive reports, presentations, personal stories and more. Sway does the design work for you.
- Tasks: Create and manage tasks in Outlook.
- Teams: The customisable chat-based team workspace in Office 365.
- To-Do: Manage, prioritise and complete the most important things you need to achieve every day.
- Visio: Simplify and communicate complex information visually with data-linked diagrams.
- Word: Bring out your best writing. Going from a blank page to a beautiful document is easier than ever.
- Yammer: Connect to the right people, share information across teams and organise around projects with colleagues or classmates.
Module 3 Dynamics 365 (Optional)
- Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement: Break down the silos between your business processes and applications with Microsoft Dynamics 365.
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Marketing: Dynamic marketing transformation for growing businesses.
- Dynamics 365 Social Engagement/ Dynamics 365 AI for Market Insights: Gather insights, meet customers on the channel of their choice and build a trusted social media presence.
- Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations: Unify global financials and operations to empower people to make fast, informed decisions.
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Talent: Attract, onboard, and manage the best HR talent for your business.
Module 4: Office 365 - A New Paradigm for Businesses
- The whole is greater than the sum of the parts……
- Office 365 is a Solution looking for problems……
- Anytime, anyplace anywhere including Mobile access
- Integration is the Key to Success!
Module 5: Case study with various integration-based Labs
- Requirement is to build dynamic flexible system to manage organizations 'systems' in the most efficient way using many of the components and toolsets of Office 365.
- Example Project Scenario: Company has just won a major large opportunity, now the entire team and organisation need to work together to manage the project to a successful completion.
- Breakdown of Sample Case Studies:
- 1) Create Planner hub to hold SharePoint libraries and team's workspace and create new plans, organise and assign tasks, share files, chat about what you're working on and get progress updates with Planner.
- 2) Create Yammer Groups to connect to the right people, share information across teams and organise around projects with colleagues or classmates.
- 3) Team members to create and collaborate on the goals, milestones and objectives Word and Excel documents ensuring version control and approval at all stages.
- 4) Create and monitor project plans using Microsoft project in team meeting with agenda and notes.
- 5) Create and update shared Visio documents to simplify and communicate complex information visually with data-linked diagrams.
- 6) Create Microsoft Forms based Surveys.
- 7) Create Power Automate to create workflows between your apps, files and data to automate time-consuming tasks so you can focus on what's next.
- 8) Create and use Power Apps to build mobile and web apps with the data your organisation already uses.
- 9) Build Power BI based dashboards for your organisation's project requirements.
- 10) Use Outlook/Exchange for email, Calendars, Tasks, people, etc.
