Office 365 service offers many softwares to subscribers. The service allow user to use Microsoft Office apps, use the storage space on OneDrive, chat and create a conference call using Skype service. These are only the few of what 365 offers. There are still many of Office 365 Apps such as Sway, SharePoint, Flow and many other available 365 apps that can be used to increase productivity.

“Improving Productivity using Office 365” is a workshop aimed to student to introduce them with many of Office 365 apps, how to use them as a tool to help them improving their productivity. This workshop which was held at 1 December 2016 in DSSDI UGM was attended by 40 students and staffs from UGM.

The first session was delivered by Ridi Ferdiana, Research and Education Advisor of MIC Yogyakarta, with introduction to Office 365, and a brief review about many of 365 apps. In this workshop, participants learn the differences between Office 365 and other similar services.

The second session, participant are given a deeper walkthrough to each of 365 apps, and learn how to use Office 365 in their workflow with examples, this including learning how to use outlook mail effectively, use foldering and filtering to better organize their mail, how to manage their contacts, and how to create an appointment or skype meeting in calendar to help them work collaboratively.

Participant also learn about using OneDrive to store their academic files, and how to share it with their friends to work together on the same file simultaneously. Moreover, they also learn how to use Office Online for seamless document collaboration. Other than that, they also learn how using Sway can help them present information more attractive and easier. And using OneDrive to capture, store and review their lecture notes in a more organized way.

In the last session, participant also learn about one of Microsoft’s new apps, Flow. They learn how using flow can help them automate many of their tedious and repetitive task. Enable them to have more time to do a more meaningful work.