Microsoft Education in the Cloud

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  • Blog Post: Top 5 tips for a successful back to school on a budget

    AshIddya
    It's school time again! A time of mixed emotion – exciting to be back in the thick of things but maybe a little sad that summer is over. Your first day of school might be full of all or many new things: new teachers, new friends, and maybe even a new school!? Whether a fresher in school or in college...
    on 18 Aug 2014

  • Blog Post: Microsoft announces Office for iPad

    AshIddya
    Microsoft is devoted to providing the tools which enable people from all walks of life to work anywhere and on any device. The ever increasing portfolio of Windows based devices available lay testament to that and with over a billion users of Microsoft Office globally we are now delighted to share that...
    on 28 Mar 2014

  • Blog Post: Office 365 Education in the Classroom eBook (now available)

    AshIddya
    This new eBook, Office 365 Education in the Classroom, concentrates almost exclusively on how Office 365 Education can help the teacher and the student in their day to day work. We look at a whole list of teaching and learning scenarios, describing some of the ways in which hard- working teachers might...
    on 11 Feb 2014

  • Blog Post: Office 365 Education Exchange Online mailbox quotas are doubling to 50GB FREE

    jamesbmarshall
    It’s turning out to be a bumper week for Office 365 Education updates. Earlier this week it was announced that SkyDrive Pro was increasing the default storage quota from 7 GB to 25 GB and starting from now Office 365 Education Exchange Online mailbox quotas are doubling to 50 GB FREE! When will I see...
    on 30 Aug 2013

  • Blog Post: Office Mobile available for iPhone and Android Phones

    jamesbmarshall
    Over on the Office blog there have been a couple of announcements. If you’ve got an Office 365 subscription (A3 or A4, or the Office ProPlus subscription and others ) then you can now get Office Mobile for Android Phones and the iPhone ! Office Mobile is the official companion to Microsoft Office. Word...
    on 31 Jul 2013

  • Blog Post: Banish Attachments Forever!

    jamesbmarshall
    Please see attached… Ok, put your hands up. Who still sends files as attachments in their email? Come on, be honest! I’m guilty of it myself – just ask my boss, after I dropped a 7MB “email bomb” on him recently. Despite having both SharePoint Online and SkyDrive at my fingertips there are times I find...
    on 13 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: Top User Tips #7–Following Content in SharePoint Online

    jamesbmarshall
    Having looked at the new social networking features of SharePoint Online back in the 2nd edition of our top user tips it’s time to look at following sites that interest you, too. If you find a SharePoint Online site in your institution that you want to access again, you can follow it to keep it handy...
    on 8 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: Top User Tips #5–Multiple Calendar Views in OWA

    jamesbmarshall
    Hot on the heels of yesterday’s top user tip about SkyDrive Pro we’re back with our fifth instalment all about multiple calendar views in OWA (Outlook Web App). This isn’t a feature that’s new to Office 365 Education, but it’s a question I get asked about all the time so it makes for a perfect top tip...
    on 6 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: Get a Room! Enable Room Finder with Room List Distribution Groups

    Zion Brewer
    If your Exchange Online (Office 365) or Outlook Live (Live@edu) users are already using Room Mailboxes to schedule meetings in conference rooms, auditoriums, labs or other facilities, then why not enable Room Finder for your Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 clients by configuring Room List Distribution...
    on 7 Nov 2011

  • Blog Post: Top User Tips #9–Multiple Co-Authoring in Office Web Apps

    jamesbmarshall
    In the eighth instalment of our top user tips we looked at Excel Surveys using the Excel Web App , and today we’re going to look at the co-authoring features that can help you analyse that data, brainstorm ideas, and work collaboratively with your classmates and colleagues in real time, via the browser...
    on 12 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: Office 365 Education: Shared Calendars

    jamesbmarshall
    Guest post by Gerald Haigh. Gerald writes regularly for the education series of blogs. 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...
    on 30 Sep 2013

  • Blog Post: SkyDrive Pro storage increases making it even better for storing and sharing class work

    jamesbmarshall
    For me, Office 365 Education just keeps getting better and better. SkyDrive Pro, part of Office 365 Education Plan A2 1 , 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...
    on 28 Aug 2013

  • Blog Post: The Start of my Office 365 Education Journey

    jamesbmarshall
    Guest post from Gerald Haigh. Gerald writes regularly for the Microsoft Education series of blogs. One of the first things I did when I decided to learn more about the capabilities of Office 365 Education was to have a meeting with Alex Pearce of BFC Networks . Alex is always good value – generous with...
    on 10 Sep 2013

  • Blog Post: Top User Tips #10–Blogging in SharePoint Online

    jamesbmarshall
    It’s time for our final post in the top user tips series, and today it’s all about blogging in SharePoint Online. You might also want to check out top tip #2 about social networking , and top tip #7 about following content in SharePoint Online as well. As a teacher or a student, blogging can help document...
    on 13 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: Top User Tips #3–Lync Online Web Scheduler

    jamesbmarshall
    Last week, in part 2 of our top user tips we looked at the social networking features of SharePoint Online. Today, in part 3 we’re going to look at how to schedule meetings using the Lync Online Web Scheduler. Lync Web Scheduler is a web-based program that you can use to create Lync Meetings if you don...
    on 4 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: Top User Tips #4–Drag ‘n’ Drop in SkyDrive Pro

    jamesbmarshall
    So far in our top user tips posts we’ve looked at scheduling online meetings with Lync Web Scheduler , social networking in SharePoint Online , and offline access with the Outlook Web App . Today we’ll focus on the awesome new feature of SharePoint Online called SkyDrive Pro. SkyDrive Pro offers users...
    on 5 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: The new Office 365 Education is here!

    jamesbmarshall
    Yesterday Microsoft launched the next generation of Office 365 , but did you know this included Office 365 Education as well? We first launched Office 365 for education last June and since then we’ve heard inspiring stories from our customers including Kilmarnock College and the University of West London...
    on 28 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Microsoft offers students at eligible educational institutions access to full Office productivity suite for no additional cost

    jamesbmarshall
    As part of our ongoing commitment to education, we are thrilled to announce Student Advantage, a new benefit to qualifying institutions which will make it easy for students to use the latest and best version of full Office at their education institution and at home. Student Advantage - Office 365...
    on 15 Oct 2013

  • Blog Post: Top User Tips #6–Outlook Web App on Mobile Devices

    jamesbmarshall
    We’re over half way through our top user tips series (there are only 10, I promise!) and today we’re looking at the latest Outlook Web App (OWA) and how it works on mobile devices such as tablet PCs and smartphones. When you’re on a traditional device OWA can be a really powerful, browser-based, tool...
    on 7 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: Dynamic Distribution Groups

    Anonymous Anonymous
    Mass Mail Dynamic distribution groups (DDGs) are a great way to manage groups in Live@edu, especially ones where the recipient list might change frequently or unpredictably. For example, you might want an “All Pupils” distribution group that sends a mail to every pupil in the school, but what about pupils...
    on 1 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: Calendar Publishing in Live@edu

    Anonymous Anonymous
    So, you want to publish your calendar? In my last post I talked about how you could set up sharing free/busy information between two Live@edu environments but what about sharing your whole calendar with someone? When you click share in the calendar screen, by default, the options to publish the calendar...
    on 8 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: Top User Tips #2–SharePoint Online Social Networking

    jamesbmarshall
    In part 1 of our bite-size top user tips we looked at Offline Access . Today, in part 2, we look at SharePoint Online’s social networking features; in particular the ability to tag words and mention people. In SharePoint Online as part of Office 365 Education, the Newsfeed page in the My Site continues...
    on 1 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: The Service Upgrade

    jamesbmarshall
    Over the course of the year until the end of September 2013, we are going to be rolling out the new Office 365 Education service to existing customers who are on the “ pre-upgrade Office 365 ”.  The service upgrade for Office 365 will deliver exciting new features, including: The new Office If you...
    on 9 Jul 2013

  • Blog Post: Top 10 Tips for Office 365 Education

    jamesbmarshall
    Earlier this year I wrote 10 blog posts, each covering one of my top tips for Office 365 Education. As schools, colleges and universities across the country reconvene for the start of a new term, I thought it would be helpful to summarise my top 10 tips for Office Education in one handy place. Office...
    on 10 Sep 2013

  • Blog Post: Sharing Free/Busy across the cloud

    Anonymous Anonymous
    Are you free? More and more institutions are beginning to realise the importance of connected, collaborative working, and the value of enterprise email and deciding whether 1, or many tenancies is the right option can be tough. Sometimes, for very good reasons, you need to split up your users into different...
    on 7 Sep 2011