Course Overview

Office 365 is Microsoft’s cloud-based collaborative suite of apps. Office 365 focuses on accessibility to documents and communication, mobility, and team collaboration. This course will provide an overview of the apps available in Office 365. Learn the core features of Office 365, how they can simplify your workday and make your team more productive. 

Audience profile 
This class is for individuals new to Office 365 and for decision-makers considering Office 365 or responsible for implementing Office 365 in their organizations

Course Outcome

After completing this course, students will: 

• Understand which tasks each of the major Office programs can perform. 
• Be able to independently create professional-looking documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. 
• Be familiar with some advanced Office functions, including Mail Merge (Word) and formulas (Excel). 
• Understand how to use Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in a variety of professional, educational, and personal situations. 
• Be able to claim Office proficiency. 
• Learn to combine vector and bitmap images as they create a standard page (letter/A4) motivational poster that must include at least one photo to accompany the text. 
• Work with templates: open an existing template file, modify it and create their own templates. In creating a two-page newsletter, they will also learn how to use text in columns, flow text from column-to-column and page-to-page, wrap text around graphics and create drop caps.
• Work with bitmap and vector effects, layers, lenses and masks, while creating a collage of images and text on a chosen topic. 
• Explore design and automation processes as they create a personal letterhead suite that includes mailing labels. They will be introduced to the Print Merge/Data Merge capabilities of CorelDRAW, Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator as well as the Interactive Fill Tool. 
• Create a three-panel brochure for a real or fictional student-run business, beginning with a template from the CorelDRAW Page Layout dialog. 
• Explore how to add 3D effects to text and objects. They will use Callouts and Connectors for creating charts, the Ellipse tool to draw pie shapes and Table and Paragraph formatting tools for layout. 
• Students will use a pre-recorded macro in CorelDRAW to create a 12-month pictorial calendar. They will also record a short macro using the Undo Docker in CorelDRAW.