Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 is a cloud based version Microsoft Office and is always up-to-date with the most recent version of your favorite software applications such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

With your Microsoft 365 account, you are able to download the apps to your computer and also have full access via your phone.

If you are a student or faculty member at LaTech, you have a Microsoft 365 account which includes a 1 TB OneDrive!

​To access Microsoft 365, visit https://www.office.com and use "username"@office.latech.edu and your normal password.

Install on Your Computer
Your Microsoft 365 account allows five installations of the ‘old’ Office package onto your computer following the below steps:

• Open your account page
  • From any 365 app, click your profile image in the upper-right corner
• Choose "My Account" located in the navbar on the left 
• Install Office located in the Office Apps & Devices
• Follow the online instructions

Install on Your Phone or Tablet

• Open your app store
• Search for the app(s) you wish to utilize on your phone (Word, PowerPoint, Whiteboard, Excel...)
• Install app(s) and sign in with your Office 365 credentials​​

Product Highlights

• Appointments - Booking
• Blog - Sway
• Browser - Edge
• Cloud Storage - OneDrive
• Collaboration - Teams
• Email and Calendar – Outlook
• Notebook - OneNote, OneNote Class Notebook, OneNote Staff Notebook
• Planner - Planner
• Presentation – PowerPoint
• Spreadsheet - Excel
• Surveys/Quizzes/Polls - Forms
• Whiteboard - Whiteboard
• Word Processor – Word

Tips and Tricks

Dictation

• To open click "home" and dictate
• Available in Word, PowerPoint, and OneNote

Excel

• Conditional Formating
• Spreadsheet from paper

Forms

• Branching Questions
• Math Worksheets

Ideas
Immersive Reader

• Reads texts aloud with the option to break text into syllables and extra space between lines and letters
• Change background colors
• Picture hints for words

PowerPoint

• Auto Design
• Presenter Coach
• Spoken Closed Caption
• Recording
• Pear Deck
  ​PowerPoint from Q & A Cafe 4/17

Whiteboard
Open Whiteboard on PC

• Look on the bottom right of your taskbar, do you see a pen? If so, click it!
• If you do not see the pen, move your cursor to a blank area of the taskbar and right-click, select "Windows Ink Workspace"

Open Whiteboard in Microsoft 365

• Log in
• Click the gray waffle (top left)
• Select "all apps"
• Click Whiteboard

Are you looking for Microsoft Teams assistance?

Microsoft Teams Help

Microsoft Resources

BLOGS/WEBSITES
​Education Help and Learning
HyperDocs with Word or OneNote
Microsoft 365 Training Center
​Quick Start Guide Mobile

BOOKS
Microsoft Infused Classroom
Microsoft Tools to Transform Classroom

VIDEOS
FlipGrid
Microsoft Education