On the 4th May, Microsoft hosted a 2 hour webinar demonstrating what they are bring to SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online in Office 365. In the announcements they shared new features that are currently in Office 365 and their mobile apps as well as what they are developing. As Office 365 Education is free, we … Continue reading The Future of SharePoint: Office 365 Education
As Microsoft increase their competition against Google and release more features for Office 365 Education, we get to see another new feature that is currently in preview for US based customers. Along with Office Forms, we now get Microsoft Classroom, a great example of how Software Integrator can build on top of the Office 365 … Continue reading First Look at Microsoft Classroom
Yesterday I posted about my first experience of Office Forms and attached a form at the bottom for users to play with to answer my questions. The form had three questions which were three different types of question types available which include Choice (used multiple choice), Text and Rating and I wanted to share the results … Continue reading Responses in Office Forms
It caught me by surprise when Microsoft announced Office Forms in Office 365 Education as Microsoft have announced that only Education customers would get access to a preview. With InfoPath forms now in extended support and no new solution from Microsoft, something like Office Forms was hoped to take your company forms to the next level. Microsoft announced … Continue reading First look at Office Forms for Office 365
As I’ve said every time I blog about the OneNote Class Notebook, this ever growing in popularity tool is a great addition to any classroom whether you have a 1:1 ratio of devices or not. I’ve spent a lot of time looking at the product as Microsoft push hard with the marketing effects of the … Continue reading Transfer OneNote Class Notebooks
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about changing licenses from the Office 365 Education license to the Office 365 Plus Education license. This PowerShell script will help you to make these changes. In the last week, further integration of Yammer and Office 365 has accord where we can now disable the Yammer … Continue reading Disable Yammer License in Office 365 Education
We have seen many changes to Office 365 but Office 365 Education changes even more as Microsoft given more free services to education establishment worldwide. Back in September 2015, Microsoft gave some of the E3 features to Office 365 and renamed the license from Office 365 E1 for Student (Faculty) to Office 365 Education for … Continue reading Change All Faculty and Students to Office 365 Edu Plus Licenses
You may or may not have noticed that on the 1st September Microsoft announced new security features for Office 365 Education users however these weren’t new as they have been in the platform for a few years. Education licenses have been aligned more to the enterprises licenses with E1 Student/Faculty matching E1 Enterprise and as … Continue reading Office 365 Edu Licensing Change – we get more for free 🙂
This week sees the online conference called Collab365 http://www.collab365.events/ which is run over 24 hours with sessions from great names from around the SharePoint and Office 365 community. Alongside at the same time of the record sessions, there are live sessions part of the Collab TV hosted by different people from around the world. I’m … Continue reading Live Session: Are Team Sites Dead? #Collab365
Over the past few months I’ve noticed more Office 365 solutions and Add-Ins that use OneDrive as the location to store data. This has always concerned me as I see OneDrive for Business a very different solution to others so I hope this brings some clarity to my thinking and hopefully start a discussion where … Continue reading OneDrive is not the location for Business Data