New Whiteboard application features or shared channels for better clarity of communication - take a look at 5 new gadgets that will make it easier for you to work with Office applications.
Do you use a digital online whiteboard? It is used to visualize ideas, creative work, and collaboration via the cloud. Recently, the developers have come up with several novelties related to this Whiteboard. Newly you can:
Do you need to communicate, get information and solve matters together, not only between individuals? Create a shared team channel that people outside of your team can access.
Shared channels come in handy when you wanto to communicate:
The questions and answers function is now moving from a separate application directly to MS Teams. It also helps to work better with questions and answers for meeting organizers. For example, they can delete duplicate questions, have an overview of unanswered questions, or highlight important questions. In order to make participants not afraid to ask questions, they can set up anonymous questions.
For easier voting, a new Polls application has appeared in MS Teams. This app allows you to easily and quickly vote on various questions, for example, using scales, word clouds, quizzes, and others. Polls can be prepared in advance, or you can run them immediately.
The older application used for similar purposes (Forms) will be retired at the end of 2022.
If you have been manually transcribing or copying your questionnaires or quizzes from a Word or PDF document to MS Forms, this will make your job easier. Now, import the files (see image), and you're done.
As of 1 August 2024, the ESRI ArcGIS Desktop licence, which was previously available to all MU employees and students, will no longer be available at Masaryk University. As an alternative, we recommend switching to the more modern ArcGIS Pro, which offers a modern user interface, greater stability, more advanced features and better user support.
Do you want to know the news about Microsoft 365 tools used at the university? What changes and improvements await us in 2024? We have prepared a webinar for you, where we will not only summarize all the current information, but also look at tips on how to work (together) more securely and efficiently in Microsoft 365.
