As a staff member of LMETB, you are provided with access to Microsoft 365. Microsoft 365 includes email, calendar, OneDrive Teams and Office software. This will be available for your term of employment.

Service information:

• Your staff email address will end in @lmetb.ie
• You have access to email, Office software and 1TB of OneDrive storage through your browser or dedicated apps.
• Office software including Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote can be installed on your own computer(s) and mobile device(s) at no extra cost.
• Share files with your peers and collaborate with OneDrive and Office software.
• Use Teams for your departmental files, research project or with your class or colleagues.​

How do I access Office 365?

You can access Office 365 from anywhere in the world, by signing into your staff email from either www.lmetb.ie, your school website or by visiting https://portal.office.com and logging in with your full email address and your password.

Access Office 365 on your mobile device

O365 Mobile Apps:

• If you have a Corporate, (LMETB), device then it will be enrolled in inTune, this will give you access to a suite of corporate apps, including Microsoft 365
• If you are using your own device then you will be prompted to enrol the device in inTune and this will allow you to access corporate data.
• We would encourage vigilance while accessing corporate data from mobile devices.

Microsoft Teams is a chat-based workspace and a digital hub for teamwork and collaboration. It brings people, conversations and content together in one space.

Visit the training section of the website for more resources, videos guides on using MS Teams.

To get an overview of Teams, read the following guide from Microsoft. To get started creating your Teams and associated channels, view the following video.

Benefits of using Teams

• Secure access and storage of your data, anywhere in the world
• Collaborate like never before – organize teams, have real-time conversations, share files, plan projects, schedule tasks and much, much more.
• Present material via video/audio, applications, e.g., Powerpoint, via screenshare ​

When should I use Teams?

If you need a shared project or workspace, storage location, or any shared space between one or more people, consider creating a Team. Save files in a Team if you want to share ownership and permissions with a wider group, section or department​. 

Before creating a Team

• Appoint two owners to each Team, in case one is unavailable. Owners have full administrative rights for a Team.
• Agree a structure for the Team, reflective of your departmental work practises/work flow. As a recommendation, create a single, department wide Team, and ​create channels within teams per project and/or collaboration topic​. It is also possible to create Teams per section/research group, or any time you require a shared collaborative space, for one or more people.

Uploading Files to Teams

If you have a large number of files to upload, we recommend uploading 100 or fewer at a time if using drag and drop into the Teams ‘Files’ window.​ (Chrome is the recommended broswer for this purpose.) Filenames may have to be revised for invalid characters if present : “*:<>?/|​. The maximum filesize for Teams is 15GB for an individual file.

Voice/video calls, online meetings & classes

Microsoft Teams can be used for all of the above.

Save your documents to OneDrive if:

• you don’t plan on sharing them at all or if you plan to share files individually and on a short term basis.
• you can’t identify a team site where your document belongs

 Save your documents to Teams if:

• you want to share ownership and permissions with a wider team group
• document is relevant to a new or existing team or ongoing project

OneDrive:

• You receive 1TB of personal storage.
• OneDrive is accessible from any device (PC, laptop, phone or tablet) that has Internet access.
• You can then access the same documents across your other devices.
• You may collaborate on documents with others in real time (two or more people can work on it, at the same time.)
• You can create Word documents, Powerpoint slideshows or Excel spreadsheets in your browser and save them automatically to OneDrive.
• You can upload content from any other applications and save it to your OneDrive, for safe keeping.
• You can access your OneDrive directly from Moodle for any relevant assignments and essays.

Your OneDrive is an online storage system (that only you can access, but that you can share files or folders from.) OneDrive is accessible by clicking the OneDrive tile at when you log in at www.lmetb.ie, through your school website or, https://portal.office.com

How to install Office on your PC or Mac

You can access Microsoft 365 from anywhere in the world, by visiting https://portal.office.com and logging in with your full email address (@lmetb.ie) and your usual password.

Once you are logged in, you can then download and install the full suite of apps on up to five personal devices.

There is a How To in the training section of the website or feel free to review the following Microsoft Guide for further information: Install Office on your PC or Mac​