Welcome to the Galvin Library's Microsoft 365 Learning Guide!
This guide is part of the Microsoft 365 training partnership between Illinois Tech's Galvin Library and the Office of Technology Services (OTS). Staff and Faculty at Illinois Tech can use this guide for self-directed learning of the Microsoft 365 environment and the steps they need to take to make the transition smoothly.
Faculty and Staff at Illinois Tech can find helpful training content here. Content is arranged into pages by topic, accessible via the menu. This guide is organized with the intent of organizing content around workflows and productivity rather than a comprehensive, detailed look at each M365 app. Content includes brief written tutorials with screenshots as well as brief videos produced in-house at Illinois Tech. Wherever appropriate, links to Microsoft's own learning content, provided through its Viva Learning platform, are also included. Other external resources may, in addition, be linked.
As Illinois Tech completes its transition to Microsoft 365, you will want to not only be able to preserve your workflows and productivity through training, but also your archive of important files that have accumulated over the Google years.
With so many departments working in diverse ways across campus, there will be no single correct way to complete this process. We can provide you with recommended tools offered by both Google and Microsoft to make this process easier, as well as tips, tricks, and important things to consider.
The Office of Technology Services has assembled a comprehensive guide on how to move over to M365 from the Google environment. Follow this link to learn more:
OTS Google to Microsoft 365 Homepage
Please note that there are deadlines during this transition. OTS will keep their transition page up-to-date with the latest information, so be sure to check back frequently!
In preparation for this workshop, you have been given a special “pilot” account within Microsoft 365 (M365). This is a separate account from your normal work M365 account, and it is not connected to your normal account in any way. All workshop participants are given a pilot account because it will give you the opportunity to explore parts of M365 that your normal account doesn’t have access to. For example, your pilot account will let you explore Outlook for email and calendar tasks.
You have received an email from Microsoft containing details about logging into your pilot account; the subject line should be “Account information for new or modified users”. The email contains your pilot account’s email address, a password, and a sign-in button.
To avoid confusion from being logged into two M365 accounts at the same time, please open two different web browsers (for example, Chrome and Firefox). Use one of them to log into your normal work email inbox and find the email with your pilot account details. Then, in the other browser, either copy the sign-in link within the email you received and paste it into the address bar or go to www.microsoft365.com. Provide your pilot account’s email address and password to log in.
For the rest of this workshop, you will be using your M365 pilot account. Have fun exploring!
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