All College of Charleston staff and faculty have access to Office 365, allowing them to use applications like Word, Excel and PowerPoint from anywhere, at any time, using any device with an internet connection.
One of the most useful tools in the Office 365 comprehensive suite of applications, OneDrive, is Microsoft’s online cloud storage platform. It provides 1 TB of storage and safely syncs and stores files of all types from your hard drive, allowing you to work from anywhere, on any device. It also serves as a collaboration tool, allowing several people to edit Office documents online simultaneously, and as a document management tool, with automatic version history tracking.
Another useful Office 365 application is Microsoft Teams, a communication and collaboration platform for chatting/messaging, video meetings and file sharing/storage (including collaboration on files).
Finally, Microsoft Yammer is more essential than ever for employees. Think of Yammer as a social networking tool just for you and your colleagues across campus to connect, discuss ideas, share updates and … well, buy and sell things.
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As part of its ongoing efforts to help the College of Charleston community get the most out of Microsoft Office 365, the Division of Information Technology is holding online learning opportunities to demonstrate best practices and essential concepts of Microsoft OneDrive (cloud-based storage), Teams (collaboration) and Yammer (internal social network). The following one-hour workshops will be held online during the month of April:
Microsoft OneDrive
- Tuesday, April 7, 10:30–11:30 a.m.
Microsoft Teams
- Monday, April 13, 10–11 a.m.
- Wednesday, April 29, 2–3 p.m.
Microsoft Yammer
- Tuesday, April 14, 3–4 p.m.
- Friday, April 17, 10–11 a.m.
For more information and to RSVP for a link to the online session, email IT Training Program Coordinator Teena Ham.
