Office 365 Core Productivity Skills

This unit introduces foundational Office 365 applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access/Publisher and Teams) and teaches core skills for creating, formatting, organizing, and sharing common business documents. Students will build practical competence in text and layout, basic data entry and formulas, visual elements (charts/SmartArt/pictures), email/calendar/contacts, and collaboration tools to prepare for advanced workflow automation and integration in subsequent units.

Learning Objectives

• Demonstrate proficiency navigating and customizing the Office 365 interface (including the Ribbon and app screens) and use Teams and Outlook to perform basic collaboration and communication tasks by completing guided scenarios.
• Apply word-processing skills to create, format, and finalize multi-page documents that include text manipulation, paragraph formatting, styles, tables, themes, spell/grammar correction, and print-ready settings.
• Apply spreadsheet and data-management skills to create and edit workbooks: enter and organize data, construct basic formulas, format worksheets, and produce charts/SmartArt to summarize and analyze information.
• Demonstrate basic database, desktop-publishing, and media-handling skills by creating a simple database table and report, placing and formatting pictures/shapes, and selecting appropriate file formats and printing options for output.