by Donald Simpson | Jun 13, 2017 | Innovation Foundry
Today, Stephen Rektenwald provided us with an insightful session on the differences between Microsoft Word (available through Office 365), Google Docs, and Apple’s Pages – three of the most popular text based document tools available. Depending on your own preferences, you may find yourself using what many around you prefer, or possibly finding yourself in the minority of those sharing and wanting to collaborate with you. Our session today pointing to the pros and cons of each, as well as how to get convert your preferred document platform into one of the other – without having to recreate the entire document. As always, the best way to troubleshoot or ask your technical questions is to seek out the following helps:
You can view Stephen’s presentation by clicking HERE
Thanks to all of those who were able to participate in our session today!
by Donald Simpson | Jun 8, 2017 | Innovation Foundry
Today we provided some insight into all the various ways you can share your files in Google Drive, as well as making sure your settings are set up before hand, as well as how to change them later. Through ACU’s G (Google) Suite of applications and storage, you can store up to 2PB (petabytes… 1PB = 1000TB) worth of data, and share files up to 1TB in size. Suffice enough to say, that is perhaps more than you will ever need. Google Drive is great for storing not only its own suite of applications (Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides, etc.), but it can also be viewed as a wonderful digital file cabinet for all of your other files as well. Our own Donald Simpson currently has over 40,000 images he and his wife have taken, as well as many films, school, and personal files stored in his ACU Google Drive.
Depending on what you are wanting to share, G Suite offers various administrative and viewer options. As a part of ACU’s Enterprise system, two extra levels of sharing are also provided. A great place for you to start seeking out information, and having your questions answered are listed below:
Thanks to all of those who were able to participate in our session today!
by Donald Simpson | Jun 6, 2017 | Innovation Foundry
Today, we talked about Office 365, in the second of our Summer Series of Tech Tune-Ups in the Innovation Foundry, in partnership with ACU’s IT department. Did you know that as an ACU Faculty, Staff, or Student, you have access to Office 365 on up to five computers, as well as five mobile devices? The Innovation Foundry’s Stephen Rektenwald provided our group today with how to go about getting access and downloading Office 365 to your devices, as well as providing the group with the pros and cons compared with Google Drive. We recommend the following resources in getting the most out of using Office 365 at work, home, or on the go:
Here is the link to Stephen’s presentation, using Sway – one of the applications available to you in Office 365.
If you need help getting set up with Office 365, be sure to follow the steps in the presentation or contact Team55!
Thanks to all of those who were able to participate in our session today!
by Donald Simpson | Jun 1, 2017 | Innovation Foundry
Today, we started the first in our Summer Series of Tech Tune-Ups in the Innovation Foundry, in partnership with ACU’s IT department. As a Google Enterprise School, ACU offers the entire G Suite of applications to all ACU faculty, students, and staff. Our time today focused on getting to know Google Forms, along with Add-ons and some troubleshooting. We recommend the following resources in getting the most out of using Google Forms:
Thanks to all of those who were able to participate in our session today!
