Office 365 Basics

If you are working at school, you need to know this If you are working at school, you need to know this. Otherwise, skip this slide and the next slide. When you sit down at a City Schools computer, you should be starting out with a (mostly) blue screen so that you can log in as yourself. This is important because you will not be able to log in to Office 365 if you did not start with the blue screen and log in as yourself . If you don’t see a blue screen, you must check to see if the computer is working: Try touching the space bar. Try pressing the monitor button in the lower right hand corner until it glows blue. Locate the switch behind the monitor. Turn it off. Then turn it back on again and wait 3o seconds. Try pressing the monitor button in the lower right hand corner again until it glows blue. If something is on the screen, but it is not the blue screen, hold down the control, alt, and delete keys at the same time, then click "log out."

Logging In on the Blue Screen: You will see two boxes. In the top box, type your lunch number/student id number. In the second box, type Welcome2018. If you do this, another screen with four boxes show up: Leave the first two boxes alone! They are done! Type Reach341 in the third and fourth box.

Review: Your login for 2018-2019 will be your student ID number followed by @bcpss.org. Your password for 2018-2019 will be Reach341.

Now get on the Internet—use Google chrome.

Once you put the cursor in here, you will go directly to Office365 IF you are on a school computer. If you are anywhere else, you will have to put in your City Schools email address (yourIDnumber@bcpss.org) as your login, and the password you use to get on to the library computers.

Choose a program to work with, or create a new folder. These are folders and documents I have already done.

Uncheck “require sign-in”

Type in the instructor’s name. His or her email address will pop up Type in the instructor’s name. His or her email address will pop up. Click on the email address.

Click the SHARE button.

Click the back button.

Here’s the document—automatically saved.

Always log out when you are done. LOG OUT FROM BOTH OFFICE 365 and the computer or laptop you are using.

Coming Back To Work On a Document Later One you leave a document, it saves itself and "locks" itself. When you open it later, you can look at it, but you can't change anything. It is locked. If you want to unlock your document and make changes, look at the toolbar at the top of the screen. Click EDIT, then click EDIT ONLINE. You can now make changes.