Office 365

What is Office 365?

Office 365 is the Cloud hosted set of integrated tools and Apps for collaboration, communication, teaching, learning, administration and more. Office 365 is a modern, flexible and engaging online environment that is helping to transform the use of IT in schools of all kinds. Sys4 provide a range of specialised services to ensure the best possible implementation of Office 365. We work with schools to plan and deliver solutions that are of immediate benefit and fully sustainable into the future.

Benefits of Office 365

Conduct lessons online
Greater collaboration on group projects
Real time working
Quick access to important documents

Benefits of Office 365

Secure and private online learning environment
Available at anytime, anywhere
Easy to use
Improve communication

Office 365 features

Free Microsoft licences for schools
Anytime, anywhere, any device access (PC, laptop, tablet, phone)
Office Web Apps – Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, OneNote, Access, Sway, OneDrive, Lync
Outlook email – 50 Gigabytes of mail storage for each user, spam and antivirus protection
OneDrive for personal document storage
SharePoint sites for shared storage

Office 365 features

Wikis, blogs, newsfeeds and concurrent document creation and editing
Instant messaging, video conferencing and screen-sharing
Managed social networking and learning
Office Pro Plus – teachers and students can download Office at no cost (on up to five PCs/Macs, as well as on up to five mobile devices or tablets)

Office 365 in schools

Easy to use and accessible - but flexible and powerful
Familiar Apps, tools and user interfaces
Sites and workspaces for classes, projects, subjects
Sites and workspaces for SLT, governors, school administration
Can replace ‘legacy’ and under-used VLE systems
Improves communication, supports personalised learning
No more USB drives to lose, reduces the number of email attachments and duplicated documents

Office 365 in schools

Version control to roll documents back to previous versions
Manage access permissions
Range of Apps and add-ons for assignments, homework and school admin tasks
Can be used and extended to meet the particular needs and priorities of individual schools
All documents, data and PII (personally identifiable information) kept safe and secure; complies with UK and EU regulations on how and where school data is stored

Our comprehensive Office 365 service includes:

Office 365 ‘Tenancy’ registration set-up and configuration
Set-ups for single schools, federations and multi-academy trusts
Content, documents and resource migration
Email migration – we move all of your existing mailboxes, calendars and contacts into the cloud

Our comprehensive Office 365 service includes:

Active Directory integration
Provisioning of user accounts, security and permissions (pupils, teachers, SLT, admin team, governors etc.)
App and ‘workflow’ custom development
Advice, implementation planning, training and ongoing user and technical support