Tag: office 365

Not quite 365 but

There are a lot of apps available with your Office 365 subscription.  Yes outlook groups are no longer functional but Teams are a handy way to collaborate not only with colleagues but students as well.  I have had a recent dialog about sharing calendar and have been reviewing the Planner App.  “With Planner, team members can create plans with assigned tasks, and then add automation such as setting due dates that send out reminders and notifications, updating the status of the project and individual tasks, easily sharing and collaborating on files.”

Here is a link to a plan I created if you want to see how it works.   Some options given is to view in Teams, add to Outlook calendar, share files, see progress charts, create “buckets” of items.

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Email Evolves – From Information Technology and Computing Services –

Over the next few months, ECU is modernizing faculty and staff email. There are four steps to this remodel:

  • Enable the new cloud-based Online Archive folder
  • Switch to Office 365 Exchange Online Protection
  • Move Enterprise Vault items back to your mailbox
  • Migrate staff mailboxes to Office 365

Using your OneDrive – Alyssa De Santis Figiel our University Program Associate recently share the photos from the Scholarship Ceremony another way to share files with colleagues without having to set up special permissions, find out more about using Office 365 and what it can do here.