At Leech Lake Tribal College, enrolled students are assigned a student email and a student user account is created supporting login access to the LLTC Student Portal, Canvas our learning management system, and more. Additionally, a Microsoft 365 account is set up associated with your LLTC issued email address. This account includes an Outlook account for email use while attending the college. The LLTC IT department provides students with a New Student Network Information letter which provides each student with the information needed to login to the LLTC network system. The information below is provided to help you gain the basics on your Outlook and Microsoft 365 accounts.

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Microsoft Outlook Email
Microsoft 365 Tutorials

Learning the Basics - Outlook Email

At LLTC Microsoft Outlook is the official email application, with additional features that will help you organize your day:

Email: Send and receive emails, and connect to multiple email accounts, including personal, work, and school accounts
Calendar: Schedule events and meetings, and share calendars with colleagues
Contacts: Store contact information, including names and phone numbers
Tasks: Track tasks and to-do lists
Collaboration: Collaborate with others and add people to email lists
File sharing: Integrate with SharePoint to share files
Word processing: Use Word, Excel, or PowerPoint from within Outlook
Security: Scan attachments and links for threats, and use encryption to prevent forwarding of sensitive information

Outlook is available as a web app or as an app that can be installed on a computer, tablet, or mobile phone - and is also part of the Microsoft 365 suite.

Outlook Email Tutorials

Link to the What is Outlook? Microsoft video, plus additional Outlook trainings. Length 1 minute 16 seconds.

Microsoft Support offers Outlook training resources online, if you are new to using Microsoft Outlook select this link to learn how to get the most from your Outlook account.

Microsoft 365

Available free to LLTC students, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) is a suite of Microsoft applications including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and many more applications that you will likely use while a student at LLTC. Microsoft Support offers extensive online training resources for all the popular applications used here at LLTC for written work, presentations, and collaborations through teams.

Through Microsoft 365 training, you can learn how to effectively use the suite of Microsoft Office applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, including advanced features, collaboration tools, cloud storage management, security protocols, and how to leverage the platform for increased productivity and communication within a team or organization, all while understanding the fundamentals of cloud computing and its benefits within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem; depending on your role, you can also learn about administration and deployment aspects of the platform

Select this link to get started with Microsoft 365 training.

For more in-depth training visit - Microsoft Learn which houses thousands of skill development training options on Microsoft products.