Thank you for joining us for our month-long Microsoft skills event for staff – Mastering Microsoft in May. Watch one of our training sessions The attendance levels at our training sessions have been phenomenal with a staggering 391 attendees across 6 training sessions. Thank you to everyone who attended and asked some brilliant questions along […]
Category: O365
Introducing our Microsoft 365 Support Community!
In response to feedback from staff, we have created a new public team to help support staff in their use of Microsoft 365. The team is called ‘Microsoft 365 Support Community’ and you are all encouraged to join it. Join now! The objective of the team is to provide an informal support route for staff […]
Welcome to Mastering Microsoft!
Make the most of Microsoft 365 with our Microsoft 365 skills event. Are you a member of staff looking to expand your skillset? Join Information Services for our month-long Microsoft 365 skills event during May 2021. Sign up for one of our training sessions SIGN UP for one (or all) of our training sessions, including working with documents in OneDrive and SharePoint, an introduction […]
Free Microsoft Office 365 software for your own devices
Get the full Microsoft Office 365 suite free of charge while you are working/studying at the University. Staff and students of the University can download the Microsoft Office 365 suite of software (Outlook, OnDrive, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and more) under the university licence while you are associated with the uni. Staff Go to https://portal.office.com and login. Click […]
Microsoft Stream Transcript Changes
Going forward, you may notice a small change to transcripts in Microsoft Stream. You may not be able to view, search, or edit automatically generated transcripts for older videos that have not been viewed in the previous six months. This is an update to Microsoft Stream to allow transcript search and view experiences for new […]
Office 365 – Click to Run
Install Office 365 Click to Run on your University of Stirling staff desktop/laptop now! The Click to Run versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint have lots of new features and well as some fantastic accessibility tools. We are starting to roll out Office 365 Click to Run (C2R) to university staff desktops/laptops. You can control […]
Box Migration to SharePoint/OneDrive
You will probably be aware that we have been working towards the removal of the box cloud storage system for some time. A significant inroad has already been made towards the reduction of box content by targeting high volume users. We now therefore have a remaining total of 20TB in box as opposed to the […]
Accessibility Features in Office 365
Designed to meet the needs of people with different abilities, the features within Office 365 ensure everyone can create, communicate, and collaborate on any device. Read on to find out more about the built-in accessibility tools and features included in our subscription to Office 365. Immersive Reader A reading enhancement tool, Immersive Reader, will speak text in a choice of voices […]
Working with documents in Office 365
Are you confused about the difference between files in MS Teams and SharePoint? Wondering what OneDrive is all about? View this short (20 min) video to give you a background to how the main 3 Office 365 apps involved in file management (MS Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive) interact with each other. You can get further […]
Scan to OneDrive is here!
Information Services is enabling Scan to OneDrive, which allows you to scan documents and upload them to your OneDrive cloud storage in Office 365, on Wednesday 2nd September. Once this feature is enabled, you will need to go through a quick setup process after scanning your first document on a printer/MFD. Please see guidance on […]