Students: Office 365 Email Upgrade

Students: Office 365 Email Upgrade

On January 2nd 2014, the Office 365 experience for students was upgraded. This change brought many new features and services including: Full Versions of Microsoft Office, OneDrive, social integration, web apps, and more.

OneDrive will provide you with 1TB of personal online storage (functions similar to Dropbox or Google Drive) as well as the ability to share and collaborate with others. This also includes Office Web Apps so you can use the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) from any browser.

Outlook Overview

1. Create a new message by clicking New Mail.

2. Folder list. The folder list includes the folders in your mailbox. It may include other folders, such as Favorites and Archive folders. You can collapse this pane by clicking the folder icon at the top. You can expand and collapse folders in this view by clicking the triangle icons next to the folder names.

3. Search window. Type what you want to search for here, such as the name of a person you want to find messages from, or text that you want to search for to find a particular message.

4. The message list is a list of the messages in the current folder. Each entry in the list view has additional information, such as how many unread messages there are in a conversation, or if there's an attachment, flag, or category associated with any messages in the conversation. A conversation can have one or more messages. When a conversation is selected, you can delete it, add a flag, or add a category by clicking the icons. At the top of the list view are filters that you can click to quickly find messages that are unread, that include your name in the To or the Cc line, or that have been flagged. In addition to the filters, you'll see the name of the folder you're viewing and the view that you've selected.

5. The reading pane is where the conversation that you've selected is displayed. You can respond to any message in the conversation by using Reply, Reply All, or Forward at the top of a message to respond to it.

Calendar Overview

1. Create a new event by clicking New Event. An event can be an appointment, a meeting, or an all-day event.

2. Use the calendars to navigate from one date to another. Shading indicates the week you're currently viewing, and darker shading marks the current date. You can use the calendar icon at the top to collapse or expand this side of the calendar view.

3. You can view more than one calendar at a time. This section lets you create other calendars, such as a calendar just for a specific project or to track personal appointments. You can also add other people's calendars and select which to display. If you select multiple calendars to display, they'll be merged into a single view with each calendar given a different color.

4. This is another area that you can use to navigate from one day to another. Click any date to jump to that date. Or click the arrows on either end to see the dates before or after those displayed.

5. The main window, where calendars will be displayed. Double-click any white space in this window to create a new calendar item. Or, click and drag to create a new item in the time you've selected.

6. Select the view you want, and share or print your calendar.

7. The agenda for the selected day. You can create a new item on the current date by double-clicking the white space in the agenda.

People Overview

1. Create a new contact by selecting New.

2. All the places you can find contact information.

3. Search. Type a person's name here to search for them in your contacts and in your organization's address book.

4. List of all contacts in the current folder.

5. The contact card for the selected person.

6. Actions you can take directly from the contact card. Select the icons to send a message, start an IM session, or create a meeting request.

OneDrive Overview

1. Select if you want to view your uploaded documents, documents you are following, or documents that have been shared with you.

2. Download the OneDrive program and sync files between your computer and your OneDrive account to access them from anywhere.

3. View the documents you have uploaded, or create your own Word, Powerpoint, or Excel document by using new document.