Presentation Design 101: How to create visual slides with impact

A comprehensive set of courses for non-designers on how to combine text and images like a pro. Full of visual examples, cheat sheets and case studies, this step-by-step visual guide will show you practical design tricks for creating visual slides that complement your oral message.

Getting started with Office 365 and Windows

Are you brand new to Office 365 for education? Get up and running quickly with the tools that will equip your students for success today and tomorrow. Microsoft Teams, OneNote, and Forms will allow you to build a collaborative classroom that empowers learners to work together, access resources and for you to quickly assess their learning and provide individualized feedback.

Connect faculty and learners with Canvas and Microsoft 365

The advantages of utilizing the Canvas learning management system with Microsoft Office 365 apps are highlighted in this course. Each platform has its own features for engaging and connecting with students. Together, Microsoft Teams' collaboration and communication tools used with Canvas's assignment and evaluation resources give teachers a powerful and comprehensive framework for supporting student learning in a digital context.

Collaborate with colleagues through live Teams meetings and OneNote

Microsoft Teams features two types of teams specifically designed for colleagues to collaborate. The PLC Team is intended to be a place for Personal Learning Communities (PLCs) to engage in book studies and other ongoing projects for professional and personal growth. Staff Teams are very similar in structure to Class Teams, but designed for school faculties, departments, and district offices. Staff Teams include a read-only section, a collaboration space, a Leader-only section, and a private section for each staff member.

Transform Learning with Microsoft Teams.

Learn about Microsoft Teams and how it can be used in classrooms and schools.

Automate scheduling with Microsoft Bookings

Microsoft Bookings helps educators save time and increase automation in their day-to-day tasks. Automate scheduling meetings and events—in person, online, one-to-one, and one-to-many. With Bookings, the back-and-forth communication required for scheduling can be automated, giving time back to educators, staff, students, and parents.

Assembling staff with Microsoft Teams meetings

Microsoft Teams was designed to bring people together for robust communication and collaboration regardless of where those people are. Teams meetings evolved quickly to meet the sudden demands of a pandemic. There continue to be many uses for secure virtual meetings that facilitate sharing content from a variety of sources and types of content. We will also discover new ways to create and share meetings and explore the granular controls educators need while meeting with students.

Structure Teams through channels, tabs, files, and apps.

Besides the people, what makes up a team in Microsoft Teams? We examine the structure and components of a team. Specifically, a team is organized into channels which in turn consist of tabs. Within those tabs are the files, apps, and communication tools that make Teams such an efficient place for Class, Staff and PLC Teams.

Converse, collaborate, and build community in Teams

Microsoft Teams in educational settings is a hub for content and the centerpiece for collaboration. Teams facilitates communication in many formats, between educators and students, families, colleagues, and the larger school community. In fact, Teams can help build that community.

Enrich the learning experience in Edge browser

In this course explore how to use the Microsoft Edge browser to enrich learning experiencing for students and teachers through in-browser experiences. Learn how to collect and organize information for lesson plans in Microsoft Edge with Collections, separate home and school activities using different browser profiles, and even write on web screenshots and PDFs using digital inking. create interactive experiences using web capture.

Bias - How does what I think and do impact others?

Bias is a natural part of how our brains work. The biases we form essentially serve as a cognitive efficiency given how much information our brains process on a regular basis. Biases can influence and subsequently cause an unintended on uninformed impact on our actions. However, not all biases are bad as in some cases they are necessary for survival. The key is to develop a higher degree of awareness on how bias can both consciously and unconsciously impact your actions and interactions with others. By completing this course, you will identify the differences between several different cognitive biases, develop strategies for learning, unlearning, and relearning, and finally learn a process for self-reflection as well as continued growth.

How to create effective charts and diagrams

This lesson covers how to make the key points in your charts and graphs stand out.