Moving to O365 - What training materials are best?

[noelmm]

Hi all,

 

We are currently in the process of moving over to Office 365, firstly we are just moving our email over and then over the next couple of months we will be moving fully to using it. We don't have to worry about the actual moving and setup of the accounts etc. as our LEA will be doing this for us as part of our managed service.

 

What I am looking for is some useful user guides, books or training material (preferably free or low cost) that will show our staff how to make use of the new features that comes with moving to Office 365, for example OneNote class notebook, Sway and the collaborative tools etc..

 

When I look for user guides there are many regarding the transition to office 365 and the management/admin side of it but there doesn't appear to be as much (maybe i haven't looked hard enough) regarding the end user and the way in which the new education features can be used to get the most of the system and hopefully help them embrace the change. If anyone could point me in the direction of such materials, books etc. that would be very helpful.

 

 

Thanks for any help and advice you can offer.

 

Noel

[speckytecky]

Umh! 61 views and not one answer up till now. I guess many of us are in the same boat. Two years ago when we migrated from UnEasymail to O365 we did have a very useful staff training session from the superb Andy Radcliffe who did most of the migration for us but sadly it seemed to go right over the heads of our staff and even sadder still the company who had Andy as a staff member failed to retain his invaluable services.

 

I send out reminders of the new features of O365 and was hopeful that our IT Lead would pick up on it and put together some training but sadly that's never happened either and obviously I as a lowly NM couldn't possibly impart anything on the subject!

 

It really bugs me that O365 is stuffed full of really useful features and we seem to use it just for mail.

 

Perhaps it's a niche training area that someone needs to hook into?

[Leeoakley]

There are services available for this already, if you know where to look. Its not that niche an area anymore with more commercial companies going down the 365 route. Most training providers (from experience) struggle to pitch user training to schools, it's very time consuming as your POC floats between a NM and training manager/SLT team member. If you combine this with how tricky it is to free up school staff for training, you often end up hitting a brick wall.

 

Please note the above is just a generalisation

 

It would be interesting to know what schools would get the most out from the additional apps in 365 plus all of the interesting "stuff" you can do in SharePoint!