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Office 365: An Overview of Office 365 for the Classroom

Office 365: An Overview of Office 365 for the Classroom

Are you using Penn State’s Office 365 applications to enhance your teaching? Do you want to learn more about Office 365 and how the applications could potentially be used in the classroom?This 1.5 hour demonstration and discussion will walk you through how to locate Office 365 applications, identify how you can use these tools in your teaching environment, and follow up with the resources needed to get you there.

Objectives

  • Explore the Office 365 applications available for Penn State faculty and students
  • Discover how to use Office 365 applications to enhance teaching and simplify student interaction
  • Evaluate which Office 365 applications are appropriate for your needs
Faculty
Live Training: Online
Collaboration
Communication
Teaching and Learning
Microsoft O365
Sites at Penn State: Building Blogs and/or ePortfolios

Sites at Penn State: Building Blogs and/or ePortfolios

This hands-on online session  focuses on the Sites at Penn State tool, a blogging and website platform powered by WordPress. Get started with the Sites at Penn State tool and learn to create a personal or course blog, department, event, or course website, or an ePortfolio. Discuss best practices for managing text, posts, pages, media, and themes while exercising best practices in site design.

Objectives:

  • Explore the Sites at Penn State interface
  • Create new site pages to include content such as contact information, information about the site owner, or a resume
  • Create and manage blog and ePortfolio content including text, files, links, images, and video
  • Change the site theme including the header image

 

Students
Live Training: Online
Collaboration
Communication
Teaching and Learning
Sites