Training course

OneDrive Essentials

This course is aimed at the user wishing to acquaint themselves with the basic features of Office 365 and OneDrive for Business. The course stresses the role of OneDrive for Business as a document storage location and how it is used by Office and Outlook.

  • 3 Hours
  • Online or in person
  • Private courses available
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Course Objectives

  • To educate users in the basics of using Office 365 and OneDrive for Business

Prerequisites

  • Familiarity with the basics of Windows is highly recommended to get the most out of this course

Included

  • Comprehensive course materials and exercises

Course content Back to top

  1. What is Office 365
    Signing In
    Portal Screen
  2. OneDrive for Business Concepts
    Storage Locations (Cloud & Local)
  3. Folders
    Creating and managing Folders
  4. Files
    Uploading and Copying Files to OneDrive
    Viewing, Selecting, Sorting and Searching Files
    Deleting and Recovering Files
    Sharing Files internally and externally
    Synchronising OneDrive for Business
  5. Documents in Office 365
    Opening and Editing OneDrive Documents in Office
    Excel, Word, PowerPoint Web Applications
  6. Desktop applications
    Configuring your Office desktop apps for OneDrive
    Attaching OneDrive files in Outlook

    OneDrive for Business Mobile applications
    The mobile experience (Windows or Android)

Training a team?

Run this course privately, on your dates

  • Virtual These courses can be attended from anywhere.
  • Private Flexible course content, flexible training date(s), flexible location(s), variable course length, private to your organisation - Courses can be held at one of our training venues or at another location convenient to you. Training can be set over a number of days or weeks to allow for practice time between training sessions.
  • Bespoke Bespoke private training can be based on an existing course or a number of lessons taken from several courses, we can also write bespoke courses for you based on your in-house systems or development program.

What delegates say Back to top

What other courses would you like to attend

“Really enjoyed this course and Adel’s presentation. explanations and examples”
N.D., Leeds and Yorkshire Houisng Association

Following this training what are you going to do differently

“Going to adopt using one drive as my default storage solution”
N.D., Leeds and Yorkshire Houisng Association
“All of it was really good and gave me a good understanding of onedrive”
N.F., Leeds and Yorkshire Housing Association

Which part of the course did you find particularly valuable

“All of it each topic gave great insight and I learnt things I didn#39t know before”
L.K., Xps Pensions Group, Train the Trainer

Following this training what are you going to do differently

“Write some macros into my spreadsheets following the course next month, always create tables for the data, name cells to use in formulas”
A.G., Yorwaste, Excel Level 3
“Extremely informative and very beneficial in enhancing my knowledge and skills”
A.P., South Tyneside Council, Excel Level 2
“Excellent course and trainer”
L.J., Px Group, Word Working with Advanced Features and Complex Documents
“Very useful training for the role out of our project cost control and resource planning initiatives.”
S.H., Deepocean, Microsoft Project Essentials

Please contact us to discuss your OneDrive Essentials course, we have many solutions available to ensure you receive the best training possible.

Learn with IT Training Solutions. Small course sizes. Course materials included. Flexible OneDrive Essentials course content. Expert trainers and tried & tested training methods. Many course materials available online using your personal training account. Please contact us to booka place or get a quote for your OneDrive Essentials course.

IT Training Solutions Ltd
Oakville, 14 Durham Road West, Bowburn, Durham, DH6 5AU
0191 377 8377
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