Office 365 Applications Access and Resources

Summary

The scope of the article is to explain who has access to Office 365 apps at UTD and share a comprehensive list of resources you may need to be productive while using Office 365 and applications.

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Purpose

The scope of the article is to explain who has access to Office 365 apps at UTD and share a comprehensive list of resources you may need to be productive while using Office 365 and applications.

Explanation

All faculty, staff, and student users have access to Office 365. You can access the applications online through portal.office.com by logging in with your UTD email (netid@utdallas.edu) and password.

Note: Guest users do not have Office 365 access but can request Microsoft Teams by contacting the Help Desk.

Quick Start 

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Office 365 Overall Resources

Resources by Product

Teams

Teams is a chat-based collaborative tool that provides a customizable team workspace. Teams integrate with many other Office 365 products to seamlessly connect you and your team to the entire Office 365 experience.

Training and additional information for Teams:

Planner

Planner makes it easy to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, chat, and receive updates on projects. It enables you to manage teamwork and collaborate on simply visually.

Training and additional information for Planner:

OneDrive

OneDrive for Business gives you one place to store, share, and sync your work or school files.

Training and additional information for OneDrive:

 

Word

Word is a word processing application where you can format text, insert images and tables, and layout documents.

Training and additional information for Word:

Excel

Excel offers the ability to organize and manipulate data in spreadsheets with sorting, calculations, graphing tools, pivot tables, and macros.

Training and additional information for Excel:

PowerPoint

With PowerPoint, you can create presentations with images, videos, animation, and formatted text with templates or custom slide themes.

Training and additional information for PowerPoint:

Forms

Easily create surveys, quizzes, and polls.

Training and additional information for Forms:

Power BI

Visually explore your data with a free form drag-and-drop canvas, modern data visualizations, and simple report authoring.

Training and additional information for PowerBI:

Stream

Microsoft Stream is an Enterprise Video service where people in your organization can upload, view, and share videos securely.

Training and additional information for Stream:


Sway

Sway is an app that makes it easy to create and share interactive reports, personal stories, presentations, and more on the web.

Training and additional information for Sway:

Power Automate

Microsoft Power Automate is a cloud-based service that makes it practical and simple for line-of-business users to build workflows that automate time-consuming business tasks and processes across applications and services.

Note: Power Automate formerly known as Microsoft Flow.

Training and additional information for Power Automate:

Whiteboard

Microsoft Whiteboard is a collaborative digital canvas for effective meetings and engaging learning. Individuals and teams alike can ideate, create, and collaborate visually by writing or drawing, typing in text, adding sticky notes or notes grid in real time, no matter where they are.

Training and additional information for Whiteboard:

OneNote

Microsoft OneNote is a note-taking program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It gathers users' notes, drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network.

Training and additional information for OneNote:

Lists

Microsoft OneNote is a note-taking program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It gathers users' notes, drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network.

Training and additional information for Lists:

SharePoint

Use SharePoint to find and follow sites and news, create sites, posts, and lists, create and share files in a library, and sync SharePoint files and folders.

Note: May require a permission request.

Training and additional information for SharePoint:

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Article ID: 75
Created
Mon 11/22/21 1:39 PM
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Mon 11/11/24 5:16 PM

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