Microsoft 365 Help Page

Welcome to the help page for Microsoft 365! Below, you’ll find general support articles, videos, and documentation, as well as links for resources related to specific Microsoft 365 Tools. If you need further support, consider signing up for a Falcon Flex training session or scheduling a one-one-one session with an instructional technology specialist. 

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Microsoft 365 Overview

Microsoft 365 is a comprehensive suite of productivity tools and services offered by Microsoft. It includes well-known applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, as well as cloud services such as OneDrive and Microsoft Teams. These tools are designed to enhance productivity, collaboration, and communication across various devices and platforms.

Microsoft 365 for Education is tailored to meet the needs of students, educators, and institutions by providing tools to promote student learning while providing data privacy protections for the district. 

Interested in short trainings to brush up on education tools? Check out the Microsoft Learn Website!

 

Recent Microsoft Posts

Multifactor Authentication Multifactor authentication (MFA) is a security technology that requires multiple methods of signing in to access your account.  MFA combines two or more methods of independent signing in to secure your data and digital identity.  The goal of…

With Microsoft's Reflect app integration into Teams, teachers can create check-ins to assess their student's social and emotional learning. Now, this process has become even easier - especially for virtual or hybrid classrooms. To add the free Reflect check-in app…

As a Microsoft school, everyone with a CLSD email address has access to the full Microsoft 365 suite of apps. Sharing and collaborating on any file couldn't be simpler with Microsoft's OneDrive integration. To share any document with a colleague,…

There are some interesting new features that have been added to Microsoft Teams this month.

You and your students have the ability to connect your OneDrive account to your Schoology account. This can make it really easy to import materials into your course or allow students to submit documents from their OneDrive into your assignments.…

Falcon Educators have the opportunity to set up Microsoft Teams for individual classes. We recommend deleting old Teams (that were used for instruction) prior to making new Teams so students do not get confused with seeing classes that are not…

Among the many challenges that we face with students learning remotely, one of the largest concerns is assessment. Although many of our assessments are available to be given to students virtually, we know that it may not be in our…

Understanding the New Teams Meeting Experience The video below will explain the new meeting experience some users are seeing in the Windows App. Overall, Microsoft tried to move the menu out of the center of the screen and automatically create…

This guide will give you everything you know to make videos for students. Please note that at this point in time students must be signed into their Microsoft to view the videos (so if you create videos for parents, their…

When adapting documents to use in a digital and virtual environment, we sometimes find that the formatting we typically use for printed documents does not match our current needs. The videos listed below will help with formatting issues to consider…

Managing Team Members & Permissions Educators have the power to modify settings for Team members. In collaborative Teams, the Team owner can choose to elevate members of the team to Owner status or to a regular member or even add/delete…

Creating and Sharing Files in Teams Teams allows you as an educator to share files. There are different types of Teams that control some of the settings. In general, if you are using Teams as a part of a collaborative…

General Microsoft 365 Information

Signing into Your Microsoft 365 Account

This video will walk you through the process of getting into your Microsoft Account.

Multi-Factor Authentication

This resource explains the importance and process for setting up Multi-Factor Authentication for your Microsoft Account. All staff are required to set this up for their accounts.

Understanding Web vs App vs Desktop Versions

This video explains the differences between the different versions of each Microsoft Program.

Setting Your Signature in Microsoft Outlook

This guide shows the approved information that should be set in your signature for emails sent from your school email account.

Microsoft 365 Tool Specific Support Pages