Teams Unleashed 2024: Connect, Collaborate, Achieve!

Get some quick, fun tips and tricks for saving time and using Teams in your department or work environment.

At the end of each workshop, participants will be able to:

• Utilize Teams for meetings and collaboration
• Manage Teams settings and apps to improve their efficiency using the app

Feb 1 - Overview: Creating Teams, Chats, Spring Cleaning

Feb 8 - New Teams

Feb 15 - Chats and Channels: restore a deleted channel, chats, voicemails and calls

Feb 22 - Meetings: recording and transcription, live transcription, Meet app - easy place to see where recording goes and when it gets deleted

Feb 29 - Mobile app: installing, setting do not disturb, switching calls

Mar 7 - Webinar (Town Hall, Class Lecture, Live Events)

Mar 21 - Apps: Adding, Viva, and Stream

Apr 4 - Updates button/app and Approvals, running projects TENTATIVE TOPIC

Apr 11 - Loop, Loop, Loop

Apr 18 - Speaker coach in Teams and PowerPoint - TENTATIVE TOPIC

Getting ready for a class or conference presentation? Get tips on the best practices for designing, delivering, and assessing audience members in your presentations. Though focused primarily on Microsoft PowerPoint, we'll also touch a bit on Google Slides and Microsoft Sway. We’ll give you tips on how to not use endless bullet points, find good-quality images, and how to organize your presentation to keep your audience awake and make them understand that you are the expert, not your slides.

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Create and design more engaging presentations
• Apply design techniques to make presentations more accessible
• Practice techniques for delivering presentations online or in-person

OneNote is a Microsoft application designed for taking notes and gathering information on any device. In this self-paced course, you will learn how to use OneNote to take notes more efficiently, collaborate on note taking, and more. We will dive into how to set up OneNote for your specific use, as well as give you the necessary steps for continued use of the program. This course will also give you tips and best practices.

You will learn how to:

• create and organize notes in OneNote
• export and share notes
• collaborate asynchronously and in real time
• work with tables in OneNote
• add media objects, such as audio recordings and video, and Excel files to notes
• integrate OneNote with other Microsoft apps.

In this hands-on introduction to Microsoft Sway, an app in Microsoft 365, we will explore what Sway is and how to create fun and exciting presentations and automatically scrolling kiosk-style presentations using features like embedding images, tweets, video, audio, and more.

In this course, you will explore how Microsoft Word can create different features for your writing and help you format your document. Please note that this course is not a comprehensive list of all of the requirements and guidelines for your thesis/dissertation, but rather a resource to help you structure your thesis/dissertation using Microsoft Word as a tool.

You have many tools available to you to record your lecture. Panopto and Zoom are powerful tools for recording your entire presentation, including other inputs such as document cameras and more. But if all you need is to record yourself delivering a PowerPoint lecture, you can record your lecture right from within PowerPoint.

Note: All instructions are for PowerPoint in Microsoft 365 Subscription (Mac) or Microsoft 365 Apps (Windows). Other versions of PowerPoint, including the volume license installed by OIT on university-owned computers, may not have all of the features discussed. You can not record narration in the web version of PowerPoint Online. You must use a desktop version of the software downloaded from Microsoft 365.