Teach & Learn with Microsoft tools for collaboration

This list contains links and inspirational ideas for using Microsoft products. Select an icon to access product tutorials.

With Office 365 you can:

co-create and collaborate with colleagues and students
provide immediate feedback using real-time interactivity
work across multiple devices, anytime, anywhere
access unlimited storage.

The NSW DEC Office 365 User Guides contain information and resources for using these tools in NSW schools, including a OneNote support document Office 365 for classrooms.

Explore O365 for Education scenarios and user guides. Discover 50 ways to connect your learning with your life with Office 365, such as how to invite a guest expert into your classroom using a Lync video conference. Access a wide variety of templates for education.

Store class assignments and projects on OneDrive. Teachers can manage access for students allowing users to create, edit, store and share documents, photos, videos and more.

Students and teachers can collaborate to instruct, create and assess using Word Online anywhere, anytime.

OneNote can meet the collaboration and communication needs of both teachers and students whether it’s to build curriculum or take notes. Add engaging multimedia such as video and audio and give personalised feedback.

icon for OneNote Class Notebook Creator app

The OneNote Class Notebook Creator app helps teachers quickly set up a personal workspace for every student, a content library for handouts and a collaboration space for lessons and creative activities.

Use Excel to create rolling dice for maths or build a timeline so students can summarise ideas and visualise trends in any learning area. Create a questionnaire using an Excel survey that can be accessed online by all respondents.

Students can collaborate using digital story-telling with PowerPoint to learn about narrative and visual literacy. The Office Mix add-in is a new way to tell your story with voice, video, inking, screen recording and interactives.

Lync empowers effective, synchronised collaboration with colleagues.

Delve allows you to quickly see or open your recent documents and follow documents shared with you. You won’t need to remember what your documents are called or where they’re stored.

Create and collaborate to share ideas and knowledge using Sway. Easily create refined, interactive presentations that pull content from a variety of sources.

Access popular Microsoft education apps to engage students and personalise instruction. Read about Windows 8 Education Apps and watch an overview of Windows 8 in the Classroom.