Office 365 Groups Essentials

Learn How The Powerful New Office 365 Groups Feature Helps Your Team Talk, Plan, And Collaborate

Microsoft Office has no shortage of ways for groups to work together. From simple spreadsheet sharing to social media tools like Yammer and Delve and collaboration platforms like SharePoint, Microsoft has provided plenty of tools to help people work as a team.

One of the newest tools is also the most powerful: Office 365 Groups. The Groups feature is built into Microsoft Outlook, the Office 365 web interface, and its own Groups mobile app.

Anyone can create their own Group or join an existing one. Inside they’ll find a a shared conversations area, shared calendar, and a shared Notebook. Groups integrate with users’ existing email, calendars, and OneDrive, and with special Connectors any Office 365 group can integrate with other cloud platforms such as Twitter, Bing News, GitHub, ZenDesk, and many more.

Office 365 Groups Essentials from Bigger Brains is the first eLearning course to cover the new Groups feature, and is also a part of the Mastering Office 365 course. For additional features related to Groups also check out Office 365 Planner Essentials, also from Bigger Brains.

What You'll Learn

Getting up to speed on all the power that Groups has to offer is critical to leveraging Groups properly within any organization, so in this course we demonstrate:

How to access Groups through Outlook and the Outlook Web App
Using the Scheduling Assistant to find convenient meeting times for all Group members
Sharing files with the Group via web, email, and OneDrive
Accessing the Group Notebook from the web or OneNote
Leveraging Connectors to add information from outside sources
Managing and securing your Office 365 Group
Using the Groups mobile app to stay in touch

Pricing

This course is included in the Bigger-Brains online subscription for individuals or organizations, or can be purchased in SCORM format for use in your own LMS (Learning Management System)