Live@edu Services CourseLive Groups Participant Guide

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Outlook Live

Live Messenger

Live SkyDrive

Office Live Workspace

Live Spaces + Live Writer

Live Groups

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Live Groups lessons

Creating a Group

Inviting People to Join a Group

Starting a Discussion with OneNote notebook WebApp

Sharing Photos

Creating a Folder and Uploading Documents in Skydrive

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Windows Live Groups

Live Groups has all the online tools you need for your groups like school clubs, school organizations or project work groups. Everyone can communicate and collaborate together online using these features:

Shared Group Calendar

Group discussions with OneNote notebook WebApp

Live Group Photos

Live Group SkyDrive with 5GB of allocated storage

Simple Access Management (people can access the group with an invite or by request)

For more information check out:

http://windowslive.com/Online/Groups

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Log onto Live@edu

Open your browser and go to www.outlook.com

Enter your Outlook Live ID and password and click Sign in.

Click the Office drop-down arrow list.

Click Your Groups.

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Creating a Group

Click Create a Group.

Enter a name into the Group name: field and click Check availability.

Note: Do name your group as unique as you can so that the people that you are inviting knows that it is your group

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Creating a Group (continued)

If the name you have chosen is already taken you will need to choose another name. Windows Live Groups will make suggestions to help you.

Note: Skip this step if your web address is already available

Click Create.

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Introducing your Group

Group links

Shortcuts to other Live@edu services

What’s new with the group

Members

Calendar of events

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Inviting people to join a group

Click Invite people

Enter the e-mail of the people you want to invite to join the group in the To: field (enter the email address of 2 person close to you).

Note: Use a comma between two email addresses

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Inviting people to join a group (continued)

You can enter your own invitation message in the Include your own message field.

Click Send.

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Inviting people to join a group (continued)

The invitations will be sent and you will return to the group home page.

People who have been invited to become a member of the group will receive an invite and can accept by clicking the Join button.

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Inviting people to join a group (continued)

You will be able to see when a contact joins the group from the What’s new area of the group home page.

The members will also appear in the membership area of the home page.

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Starting a discussion with OneNote notebook WebApp

Click on Upload or create documents.

Click New.

Click OneNote notebook

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Starting a discussion with OneNote notebook WebApp (continued)

Give your discussion a Title and enter your discussion in the text field below.

Add a content to your discussion

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Starting a discussion with OneNote notebook WebApp (continued)

To edit your text, highlight the text to be edited and use the ribbon to make your changes

Note: The ribbon is similar to those found in other Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel and Powerpoint

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Starting a discussion with OneNote notebook WebApp (continued)

To create a new page (new notebook), click on the New Page icon

Repeat Step 3 and Step 4 to start on the new discussion

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Starting a discussion with OneNote notebook WebApp (continued)

Note: People who have accepted your invitation will be able to view and continue the discussion

To view the replies, click on View

Click on Show Authors

You will be able to view the names of the people who have contributed to the discussions

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Starting a discussion with OneNote notebook WebApp (continued)

Note: You can insert Pictures, Tables and Hyperlinks to your discussion by clicking on Insert

Inserting Table

Inserting Pictures from your PC

Inserting a weblink (hyperlink)

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Starting a discussion with OneNote notebook WebApp (continued)

To save and close the discussion:

Click on File

Click on Close

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Starting a discussion with OneNote notebook WebApp (continued)

Click on your group name to return to homepage

Your notebook will appear under the Recent Documents section

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Sharing photos

Click Photos.

Click Add photos.

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Sharing photos (continued)

Click New album

Enter a name for the album in the Name field.

Click a permissions radio button depending on whether you only want members to be able to view photos, or if you want members to be able to add, edit details, and delete photos.

Click Next.

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Sharing photos (continued)

Drag and drop your photo files into the Drop photos here field.

Note: This feature is only available in Explorer 8.

Or else, you can also browse to find and select photos.

Click Continue or Upload.

You will see a confirmation that the photo has been uploaded and the album has been created.

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Sharing photos (continued)

Click on your group name to return to homepage

Your Album will be notified on the group homepage for group members to see

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Creating a folder in Skydrive

To return to the group home page click the name of your group.

Click Documents.

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Creating a folder in Skydrive (continued)

Click Add files.

Click New folder.

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Creating a folder in Skydrive (continued)

Enter a name for the folder in the Name: field.

Click the Members can view files radio button or click the Members can add, edit details, and delete files

Click Next.

The folder has now been created and is ready for members of the group to upload files to.

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Creating a folder in Skydrive (continued)

Similar to adding photos, add documents from your PC to upload them to the Skydrive to share with other members

Note: The Skydrive will be able to accept all types of file. It is just like you pendrive but sharing of documents is much effective via Skydrive

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Live Groups Discussion

Now you can carry out these activities on your own:

Creating a Group

Inviting People to Join a Group

Starting a Discussion with OneNote notebook WebApp

Sharing Photos

Creating a Folder and uploading documents in Skydrive

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