{"id":9694,"date":"2020-08-26T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/?p=9694"},"modified":"2020-08-26T09:12:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T08:12:12","slug":"organising-tasks-using-microsoft-office-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2020\/08\/26\/organising-tasks-using-microsoft-office-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Organising Tasks Using Microsoft Office 365"},"content":{"rendered":"

As many of us continue to work, teach and learn remotely, keeping on top of all our meetings, actions, things to do remains a major challenge. Quite timely then that Microsoft have introduced some significant changes to how you can organise \u2018Tasks\u2019 across their Office 365 applications.<\/p>\n

MS \u2018Planner\u2019 and \u2018To Do\u2019<\/h3>\n

Firstly, for those of you who use Planner or To Do, it\u2019s important to say that this does not signify the beginning of the end for those two applications, indeed the opposite. The new Tasks functionality relies on Planner and To Do as part of its infrastructure. For those of you who aren\u2019t familiar with Planner and To Do, the best way to summarise would be to say:<\/p>\n

Planner<\/h4>\n

Planner is an application for team-based tasks\/projects. Planner lets you create collaborative plan boards, detailing key tasks, categorising and assigning them to people them where appropriate. \u2018Buckets\u2019 can be used to organise the board, whilst filters can display tasks based on priority, assignee and more. To keep track of progress, various charts are available to keep on top of tasks and team members contributions.<\/p>\n

To Do<\/h4>\n

Whilst Planner is for Team tasks, To Do is the application for your own personal tasks. Any To Do tasks are tracked in Outlook and synched across Office 365 applications. To Do tasks integrate with Planner where you\u2019re able to easily view all tasks assigned to yourself whether these originated in Planner or were created through To Do.<\/p>\n

Teams<\/h3>\n

The updates to Tasks in MS Teams have begun rolling out and will continue to do so through to the end of September. You can read more about this by clicking on the following link: https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/planner-blog\/announcing-tasks-in-microsoft-teams-public-rollout\/ba-p\/1502225<\/a><\/p>\n

Tasks in MS Teams brings in tasks from both Planner and To Do and provides a simple yet powerful way of managing tasks. The obvious use cases here are working on projects with colleagues, setting tasks for your students or encouraging your students to use Tasks to manage their own personal or groupwork tasks\/deadlines.<\/p>\n

A couple new features arriving in Teams are:<\/p>\n