If you are new to office 365 or are not aware of this, editing documents simultaneously is a great feature and surprisingly easy to use. You may be used to collaborating on documents using Office on your desktop with the files stored on shares but one of the problems in the older versions of Office was documents being locked for editing by other users. Of course if you require documents to be locked for editing, you can enable checking in and checking out of documents to get the same effect in office 365, however working collaboratively on documents now doesn’t mean you accidently save over the other persons work. Parts of the document lock to allow you to see what the other collaborators are doing in the document. This feature is available in Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote files.
It’s a really exciting way to collaborate and makes working in groups much quicker than having to edit the document one by one. As a teacher you could be working on a documents together as a department rather than passing around marksheets or assessment data for each teacher to enter one at a time. It’s also great for businesses having to work on long documents which require collaboration such as proposals.
My video below demonstrates the functionality.
