Office Online Projects

Autograded projects for Office Online Apps.

What are Office Online Apps?

Microsoft offers free online versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. While these web apps are easily accessible to students, there is not one-to-one feature parity between the installed version and the Office Online version. SIMnet’s autograded projects are written to assess a student’s knowledge of the installed version of the Microsoft Office apps. However, some students have access to the Office Online version of the apps only. Unfortunately, due to the difference in features, students using the Online Office version cannot be assessed using the auto-graded projects from the textbooks.

For students who have access to the Office Online apps only, existing auto-graded projects from the In Practice and Skills Approach series have been modified by rewriting and removing steps that reference features not currently available in the Office Online version of the apps. Below you will find lists of each Office app and the features that are available in the installed version of the app, but not the Office Online version. In addition, a breakdown of each Office Online project is provided, including all modified and deleted steps.

How do I assign an autograded project for Office Online Apps?

The steps to assign an Office Online Project to a student or class are the same as any other project. In the Projects section in the Course Manager, new Office Online options are available from the Series drop-down list.

Access

There is no Office Online version of Microsoft Access.

Word

The following features do not exist in the Word Office Online app:

  • Shading option in the Paragraph group

  • Design tab; Themes and Style sets

  • Built-in Headers & Footers

  • Link to a place or section in the document

  • Columns in Page Setup group

  • Cover Pages

  • Watermarks

  • WordArt

  • Charts

  • Sort

  • Markup

  • Word Options dialog; Autocorrect

  • Advanced Find and Replace

  • Thesaurus

  • Tabs dialog

  • Inserting a Table of Contents

  • Mark Entry

  • Font dialog options

  • Document Properties

  • Update or Modify Styles

  • Convert Text to Table

  • Table AutoFit and Re-size

  • Picture Effects, absolute positioning and picture captions

Skills Book Series Office Online Projects

In this table you will find steps from the original project that have been modified to work with the Office Online version of Word as well as steps that have been deleted and number of points possible.

In Practice Book Series Office Online Projects

In this table you will find steps from the original project that have been modified to work with the Office Online version of Word as well as steps that have been deleted and number points possible.

Excel

The following features do not exist in the Excel Office Online app:

  • Quick Analysis Tool

  • Create a named range

  • Error Checking

  • Themes

  • Headers & Footers

  • Print Titles

  • Custom Margins

  • Backstage View

  • Copy/Paste Without Formatting

  • Define Names

  • Goal Seek

  • Data Tables

  • Recommended PivotTables

  • Sparklines

  • Slicers

Skills Book Series Office Online Projects

In this table you will find steps from the original project that have been modified to work with the Office Online version of Excel as well as steps that have been deleted and number points possible.

In Practice Book Series Office Online Projects

In this table you will find steps from the original project that have been modified to work with the Office Online version of Excel as well as steps that have been deleted and number points possible.

PowerPoint

The following features do not exist in the PowerPoint Office Online app:

  • Slides from Outline

  • Charts

  • Ruler

  • Outline View

  • Animation Painter

  • Background Styles

  • Font Themes

  • Convert to SmartArt

  • Custom Theme Colors

  • Presenter View

  • Setting up a Kiosk Presentation

  • Replace

  • Adding Dates to a Footer

  • Rehearse Timings

  • Handout Master View

Skills Book Series Office Online Projects

In this table you will find steps from the original project that have been modified to work with the Office Online version of PowerPoint as well as steps that have been deleted and number points possible.

In Practice Book Series Office Online Projects

In this table you will find steps from the original project that have been modified to work with the Office Online version of PowerPoint as well as steps that have been deleted and number points possible.

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