Digital Team

Microsoft 365 is an online-based suite of tools offered by Microsoft to help improve productivity, collaboration, and secure file and document sharing and management across all levels of the organisation.

Because it is cloud-based (online), members can access their Scouts email account and other 365 tools on any device, at any time, from any location simply via a web browser such as Google Chrome or by using the apps.

The tools available through Microsoft 365 include:

Outlook
District Email
PowerPoint
Presentations
OneNote
Digital Note Taking
OneDrive
File Storage
Word
Word Processor
Forms
Digital Forms
Excel
Spreadsheets
Teams
Messaging & Chat
Sharepoint
Collaboration

What are the advantages of using Microsoft 365?

This is an important step forward in improving the way we connect, communicate, collaborate and access Scouting. Not only is Microsoft 365 key to making the business of Scouting smarter by enhancing productivity, collaboration, and secure file and document sharing and management, but it also plays an important role in meeting the compliance obligations we all share around information and data security, child protection and centralised communications.

Using a Scouting email address allows you to manage and maintain a Scout-Life balance by keeping your Scouting mailbox separate from your personal inbox, it looks more professional when contacting parents and other outside organisations can be a lot more confident of your identity when receiving emails. It also fulfils our duties and responsibilities when it comes to GDPR and SAR (Data Subject Access Requests) ensuring that we are compliant when storing and securing all personal information, be it emails, personal details, other information, etc.

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What are the advantages of using Microsoft 365?

This is an important step forward in improving the way we connect, communicate, collaborate and access Scouting. Not only is Microsoft 365 key to making the business of Scouting smarter by enhancing productivity, collaboration, and secure file and document sharing and management, but it also plays an important role in meeting the compliance obligations we all share around information and data security, child protection and centralised communications.

Using a Scouting email address allows you to manage and maintain a Scout-Life balance by keeping your Scouting mailbox separate from your personal inbox, it looks more professional when contacting parents and other outside organisations can be a lot more confident of your identity when receiving emails. It also fulfils our duties and responsibilities when it comes to GDPR and SAR (Data Subject Access Requests) ensuring that we are compliant when storing and securing all personal information, be it emails, personal details, other information, etc.

M365

What are the advantages of using Microsoft 365?

This is an important step forward in improving the way we connect, communicate, collaborate and access Scouting. Not only is Microsoft 365 key to making the business of Scouting smarter by enhancing productivity, collaboration, and secure file and document sharing and management, but it also plays an important role in meeting the compliance obligations we all share around information and data security, child protection and centralised communications.

Using a Scouting email address allows you to manage and maintain a Scout-Life balance by keeping your Scouting mailbox separate from your personal inbox, it looks more professional when contacting parents and other outside organisations can be a lot more confident of your identity when receiving emails. It also fulfils our duties and responsibilities when it comes to GDPR and SAR (Data Subject Access Requests) ensuring that we are compliant when storing and securing all personal information, be it emails, personal details, other information, etc.