Teaching Outlook

Outlook is the commonest email package found in offices and it really is a useful package if you can get to grips with its entirety. There's not a part of it I don't use. Because it comes in sections, it makes teaching a doddle - you can concentrate on just email or skim through each bit as your class prefers. Don't forget that it's very handy to teach things like housekeeping principles and how the server delivers your mail, too.  

1. Email

2. Message options

3. Contacts

4. Calendar

5. Tasks

6. Notes

7. Additional options

1. Email:

• Sending, receiving, forwarding

• CC, BCC

• Managing attachments

• Creating folders

• Display options

2. Message options:

• Signatures

• Filtering

• Setting the out-of-office assistant

• Mail format

• Voting

• Tracking and delivery options

• Message flags, importance and sensitivity

• Saving emails

3. Contacts:

• Creating a contact

• Emailing a contact

• Creating a distribution list

4. Calendar:

• Creating appointments

• Creating meetings, inviting attendees, cancelling or rescheduling

• Creating events

• Recurring items

• Reminders

• Marking time and labelling

• Allowing others access to your Calendar

5. Tasks:

• Creating, editing and recording progress

• Assigning tasks to others

• Creating an appointment from a task

6. Notes:

• Creating, using and changing options

7. Additional options:

• Basic housekeeping principles

• Using views

• Customising the fields

• Archiving