Day: September 25, 2023

Tech Tip 9: Saving and Sharing files in OneDrive, Teams or Sharepoint? (Part 1 of 4)

  • Author By kenbrady
  • Publication date September 25, 2023
  • Categories: Staff

Today’s Tech Tip the first of a series where I’ll cover the use of OneDrive, Teams and Sharepoint as tools from the MSOffice365 suite that you can use to save and share files you’re working on.

You can save and share files from each of these, but each one is better for specific purposes.

The first tip is where to find each of these tools.  Yes, you can access Teams and OneDrive as apps installed locally onto your laptop. However I recommend using the web based versions, as they have more powerful features in a numbers of cases, particularly OneDrive.

So firstly, I would strongly recommend bookmarking the following website.

https://nanjingschool.sharepoint.com/sites/NISHub

This website is the “Sharepoint” site for NIS, but I will get into that in a later tip.  The reason I’m recommending bookmarking this site now, is because on opening this site, you will see the “waffle menu button” in the top left corner.  By clicking on this you can access the web based versions of all of the Office365 Apps, including OneDrive,  Teams and Sharepoint.

The second tip for today is an overview of why you might use each of these tools for saving and sharing files.  The following is a good rule of thumb.

  • One Drive: Saving documents that you are working on yourself, individually as a draft. Sharing it with one or two people generally at a maximum.
  • Teams: Saving documents which are being collaborated on by a group of people.  The documents are living, editable files accessible to all members of that team.
  • Sharepoint: Saving / uploading documents that are generally static and are for consumption rather than editing.

That’s it for today’s Tech Tip.  Next week we’ll continue with this series and I’ll give some tips on the use of saving and sharing files from OneDrive specifically.

Remember,  this tip, along with all previously published Tuesday Tech Tips can be found here on the NIS Sharepoint 

Tech Coach Ken

Restricted access to PAC grass area till Oct 8th

Hi All,

Due to the maintenance period of the new winter grass, the PAC grass will be off-limits to access until Oct 8th, the end of National holiday. Please direct the students to the alternative areas on campus. Thank you for your understanding.

Facility Team

Accreditation Visit Preparation

We are less than two weeks away from our IB/CIS/WASC Accreditation visit (October 8-13).

With this in mind, please find our 2022-2023 self study report linked here along with a summary of the planned actions from that report. Please take a look and be reminded of our collective, reflective efforts and marvel at the efforts already underway on behalf of our students!

The schedule for the visit can be seen here for a big picture overview of how our this week will work.

At this point, those involved have been contact directly. Please see Kasson with any and all questions, queries, thoughts, and the like. He loves chatting about this (really!).

IB/CIS/WASC Accreditation Visit Coming Soon!

Hello NIS Students,

When we return from the October break we will have 13 visitors on campus for a week, taking a look at our school and helping us make it even better. These visitors work with the three organizations that accredit NIS.

  • Council of International Schools (CIS)
  • Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC)
  • International Baccalaureate (IB)

You will see them around campus, in classes, and in meetings with your peers, teachers, and families. Please be sure to say “Hello!, welcome them to campus, and answer any questions they might ask. They are really looking forward to seeing you in action!

Please see Mr. Bratton with any questions.

Thanks in advance!