Microsoft® Office 365™: Web Apps and Collaboration for Office 2013
Course Specifications
Course Number: 
091116
Course Length: 
1 day
Course Description
Overview: 
This course is an introduction to the Microsoft® Office 365™: Web Apps and Collaboration for Office 2013 in a cloud-based environment. Using Office 365, users can easily communicate with each other through Microsoft® Outlook® mail and Lync® instant messaging and online meetings. Additionally, the Microsoft® SharePoint® Team Site provides a central location for accessing and modifying shared documents. The Office Web Apps enable users to perform basic tasks, such as opening, editing, printing, and saving documents without requiring an installation of the full desktop version of Microsoft® Office 2013 on the local computer. 
Course Objectives:
In this course, you will be able to use your knowledge of the Office 2010 or 2013 desktop application suite to work productively in the cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 environment. 
You will:
•	Sign in to and navigate in the Office 365 environment.
•	Create, edit, and share documents with team members using Office Web Apps and Microsoft SharePoint. 
•	Use email and manage contacts with the Outlook Web App.
•	Use instant messaging and online meetings with Microsoft Lync.
•	Set up your mobile devices to work with Office 365.
Target Student: 
Prerequisites: 
To ensure your success, you will need competence in at least one of the primary applications in the 2010 or 2013 edition of the Microsoft Office suite (Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® PowerPoint®, and/or Microsoft® Excel®), and also competence in using the locally installed version of Microsoft Outlook 2010 or 2013 for email and calendaring. To meet this prerequisite, you can take any one or more of the following Logical Operations courses: 
•	Using Microsoft ®Windows 8 or Microsoft ®Windows 8 Transition from Windows 7 
•	Microsoft® Office Word 2013: Part 1 
•	Microsoft® Office Excel® 2013: Part 1
•	Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2013: Part 1
Course-specific Technical Requirements
For this course, you will need one computer for each student and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware configurations: 
•	1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor with SSE2 instruction set 
•	1 gigabyte (GB) RAM for 32-bit or 2 GB RAM for 64-bit 
•	10 GB available hard disk space 
•	Keyboard and mouse (or other pointing device)
•	1024 x 768 resolution monitor recommended
•	DirectX10 graphics card
•	Internet access (contact your local network administrator)
•	Projection system to display the instructor’s computer screen
Optional hardware needed for the Communicating with Microsoft® Lync® lesson: 
•	128 megabytes (MB) graphics card 
•	Microphone with speakers, or a headset with microphone
•	Web camera 
Optional hardware needed for the Interacting with Mobile Devices lesson: 
•	Smart phone 
•	Tablet running Windows 8 
•	Microsoft® Windows® 8 or newer with .NET 3.5 or higher; or Windows® 7 Professional with Service Pack 1 
Note: Windows 8 and Server 2012 include the .NET Framework. 4.5
•	Microsoft® Office 2013 
•	Microsoft® Office 365™ licenses (Office 365 Enterprise is recommended)
Note: The Office 365 plan you use depends on the licensing available in your environment. If you wish to use a trial version for testing, either Office 365 Small Business or Office 365 Enterprise are acceptable, but you will need Office 365 Enterprise if you have more than 10 students per class.
•	Microsoft® Silverlight® (Download the latest version from www.microsoft.com/silverlight) 
Course Content
Lesson 1: Getting Started 
Topic A: Sign In to Office 365 
Topic B: Explore the Office 365 Environment 
Topic C: Connect Desktop Apps to Office 365 
Lesson 2: Collaborating with Shared Files 
Topic A: Work with Shared Documents on the Team Site 
Topic B: Edit Documents in Web Apps and Office 2013 Apps 
Topic C: Collaborate on the SharePoint Team Site 
Topic D: Work with My Site 
Lesson 3: Using the Outlook Web App 
Topic A: Use Email in the Outlook Web App 
Topic B: Manage Contacts 
Topic C: Use the Calendar 
Topic D: Personalize Your Outlook Web App 
Lesson 4: Communicating with Microsoft Lync 
Topic A: Use Instant Messaging 
Topic B: Make Phone Calls with Lync 
Topic C: Participate in Lync Meetings 
Lesson 5: Interacting with Mobile Devices 
Topic A: Use Office 365 on Your Windows 8 Tablet 
Topic B: Access Office 365 Email with Your Smartphone 
Topic C: Access Office 365 Documents from a Mobile Device