Virtual Training
To support rapid adoption of M365 during the COVID-19 crisis, Microsoft is hosting online training sessions in both English and French. The sessions are intended for GC employees and aims to help with building the skills to support the adoption of Teams and M365. Topics to be covered will include:
- Intro to Teams
- Using Chat, Channels, Activity, Meetings
- Coordination of meetings, activities and more
The sessions will be offered in two formats, pre-recorded and live. However, both feature live moderation to answer your questions in real-time. Find a date and time below that works for you.
Live Training Sessions
Hosted by Microsoft, these sessions are delivered by both online moderators and a team responding to questions received via chat in real-time throughout the lesson. Up to 10,000 participants can join per session but NO registration is required. All sessions are 60 minutes unless otherwise indicated. Please remember to stay off the VPN and join using your personal device. Note the session will be recorded and your name and/or phone number will be visible during the call to other participants who attend.
How to participate:
To join, simply click on the link and allow it to launch in your web browser (please use EDGE, Chrome or FireFox)
- Be sure you've got the time blocked on your calendar to join us.
- Simply select one of the following dates to join the session that works for you.
- If you have the Teams application installed → click on “Open in Microsoft Teams” in the pop-up window or “Launch it Now”.
- If you do not have the Teams application installed → click “Join on the Web Instead”.
On Demand Recordings
Once the training has taken place, the recorded session is available for 180 days.
Select one of the trainings you wish to watch.
Feedback
Please let us know how useful you found the training and what other M365 training you want.
https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/m365-post-training-130422?lang=en
Accessibility training
Creating accessible content in M365
Accessibility: Hearing
Accessibility: Neurodiversity
Accessibility: Vision
Accessibility Solutions 100 - New for 2022
Accessibility in Windows and M365 - New for 2022
GC Accessibility Training and Events
To help promote upcoming accessibility activities organized by various Government of Canada departments that are open to public service employees.
Plain Language, clear and simple
Plain language writing is a technique of organizing information in ways that make sense to the reader. It uses straightforward, concrete, familiar words. You can use these techniques to adapt what you have to say to the reading abilities of the people who are likely to read your document. Using plain language to explain concepts and procedures involves using examples that relate to your reader’s experience.
M365 Apps training
Cloud Storage (OneDrive and SharePoint)
Microsoft Forms
Lists
Microsoft Whiteboard
Outlook 100
OneNote
Process Flow with Approvals - New for 2022
Security Foundations 100 - New for 2022
SharePoint 100
Get started with Microsoft SharePoint Online - New for 2022
SharePoint 200
Go further with Microsoft SharePoint Online - New for 2022
Tasks (To Do and Planner)
Viva Insights
Power Platform training
PowerApps
Power Automate
| Description
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| Attendees taking this course will learn the basic elements of Power Automate, including an overview of types of flows, how to create flows from templates or from scratch and understand how these can be integrated with existing systems and applications like Microsoft Teams.
Objectives:
- Become an expert on accessing and navigating Power Automate
- Understand key components of a Flow
- Maximize efficiency through pre-built Flow templates
- Get familiar with Connectors, Data Source, and AI Builder
- Learn how to create your first Flow
- Understand how your Flows can be integrated with your existing systems and applications such as Microsoft Teams
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PowerBI
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| Power BI lets you easily unify data from many sources to create interactive, immersive dashboards and reports that provide actionable insights and drive business results. This course will provide an overview Power BI and how its services and applications work together.
Objectives:
- Understand the building blocks of Power BI
- Explore how Power BI can enable you to make confident decisions using analytics
- Collaborate with Power BI in Microsoft Teams
- Connect to a Power BI dataset and begin visualizing data
- Save a report within the Power BI service
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Get started with Microsoft Power BI service
Power Virtual Agents
| Description
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| Microsoft Virtual Agents can help you respond rapidly to your customer and employee needs using intelligent chatbots. In this course, you’ll create, publish, and analyze the performance of your first chatbot.
Objectives:
- Learn the components of Power Virtual Agents
- Create a bot and work with topics and nodes
- Design and test a conversation path
- Publish a bot to a test page
- Understand how to analyze the performance of a bot
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MS Teams training
Teams 100
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| An introductory course to Microsoft Teams that will demonstrate the value of the tool and give attendees all the need to get started working in their first Team.
Objectives:
- Learn how to create and participate in a Team, including how to navigate across requested modalities (eg. desktop, mobile, tablet, etc.)
- Understand how teams fists into their collaboration and productivity workflow
- Learn how Teams integrates with Microsoft 365 and understand digital identity
- Work more efficiently with connected apps in Teams
- Get familiar with creating and participating in meetings
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Get Started with Microsoft Teams - New for 2022
Teams 200
| Description
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| This course is designed to build on existing Microsoft Teams knowledge to establish best practices and etiquette across available apps.
Objectives:
- Revisit application navigation to fortify understanding and introduce advanced features
- Deep dive into integration with Microsoft 365 and third-party apps (e.g. Tabs, Apps, Bots)
- In-depth look at SharePoint Online integration and document collaboration
- Best practices for pre-meeting, meeting, and post-meeting
- Utilize best practices for increasing response rates and managing their own notifications
- Use Command/Search bar to navigate and find content more quickly
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Explore teams and channels in Microsoft Teams - New for 2022
Teams - Advanced Meetings and MS Planner - New for 2022
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| The meetings workload includes audio conferencing, video and sharing. This course will demonstrate key features of Microsoft Teams Meetings.
Objectives:
- Understand meeting scenarios
- Experience the meeting lifecycle and how to utilize Teams for better collaboration
- Learn to schedule meetings from Teams or Outlook
- Optimize settings to look and sound your best on camera during video meetings
- Make use of all features within Teams meetings (e.g. whiteboard, etc.)
- Utilize the meeting recording, notes, and chat for ongoing collaboration
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Teams - Breakout Rooms
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| With breakout rooms, meeting hosts can break participants into separate meeting rooms for smaller group discussions, then bring groups back to the main meeting.
Objectives:
- Discover how to set up breakout rooms in a Microsoft Teams meeting
- Understand how to manage breakout rooms as the meeting organizer
- Explore the participants’ experience of breakout rooms
- Learn how to bring breakout room participants back to the main meeting
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Go further together with meetings in Microsoft Teams
Teams - Increase collaboration - New for 2022
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| Working together is easier with Microsoft Teams. Tools and files are always available in one place that’s designed to help you connect naturally, stay organized, and bring ideas to life. Learn how to make the most of channels, chat, and connected apps to improve communication and deepen collaboration across teams of all sizes.
Objectives:
- Stay connected with chat
- Create a collaborative workspace
- Accomplish more together in teams and channels
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Teams Tips & Shortcuts - New for 2022
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| Learn tips and shortcuts for Microsoft Teams that will help you become power users, able to expedite navigation and efficiently use Teams for collaboration and workflow. Discover what’s new and find expert direction for Teams topics, curated for your specific work scenarios.
Objectives:
- Leverage formatting best practices to help get your messages noticed (and responded to)
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- Implement strategies to manage and organize your work and simplify your workday
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M365 Teams Quality of Experience Workshop
CCO Virtual Learning Series: Planning Virtual Events - New
