Tech Tidbits
Zionsville Community Schools
Office 365 for Students
The Zionsville Technology Team has been hard at work setting up accounts for all staff and students in Office 365. Login with your normal credentials. Students will login with their student e-mail address. Their password is their lunch ID. Office 365 allows our students to log in from anywhere they have internet access and work on official WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT documents on-line!!! Students can share their work with others or collaborate with a group on a project just like in Google Drive. The picture below shows all the on-line apps your students have access to. Try out with your student today!!! It's fun and very productive.
Microsoft Office 2016- For FREE!
One of the great benefits of moving our e-mail to Office 365 is the opportunity for each of our students and staff to download the Office 2016 Suite for FREE! This allows you to download the software (normally $129) for free on a Windows or Mac computer. To download Office 2016 onto your personally-owned device, go to www.office.com and log in with your ZCS credentials. Once you log in, the download Office 2016 button will be in the upper-right corner. DO NOT download this software onto a rented school computer. Office is already installed and this will cause your computer to malfunction because it will not know which version to use.
OneNote
OneNote is a digital notebook that will aide your students in keeping their notes and class content organized. Think of it as a virtual Trapper Keeper (minus the velcro clasp). Students can pull content from Canvas, websites, pdf files, and many other resources to place in their notebook. Give it try today!
OneDrive- Cloud Storage
OneDrive is Microsoft's cloud storage where you have unlimited storage through Office 365. You can upload or create files that can be accessed anywhere you have internet access. You also have the ability to collaborate or share your documents with others. This app is accessible to both you and your students. You no longer need to worry about which device has the most up-to-date version of a file. Using OneDrive, you have access to the most recent version anywhere!
Sway- A New Way to Present
What is Sway - Microsoft Sway Tutorials