Office 365 Productivity Foundations

This unit introduces foundational Office 365 skills across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, and Teams, emphasizing document creation, data entry, formatting, basic analysis, and digital collaboration. Students build practical workflows—setting up accounts, customizing interfaces, producing professional documents and presentations, and preparing data for reporting—to prepare for more advanced office administration tasks in subsequent units.

Learning Objectives

• Apply Office 365 account setup and navigation procedures to configure email, contacts, calendar entries, and participate in Teams collaboration channels
• Demonstrate proficiency in word processing by creating, formatting, proofreading, and printing multi-page Word documents using styles, themes, tables, spelling/grammar tools, and print settings
• Create and edit Excel workbooks by entering and organizing data, constructing formulas, formatting worksheets, and generating basic charts and quick analyses
• Design professional PowerPoint presentations and basic Access database objects by assembling slides with themes, notes, SmartArt, images, and by creating tables, entering records, sorting data, and producing simple reports