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We’re very excited that our MindTap for Illustrated Office 365 & Office 2016 Introductory will be available for January 2016 courses. If you’re interested in becoming an early adopter, please visit our Cengage product page and contact your Learning Consultant for more information!
Watch Jim Federico, Microsoft Principal Product Manager for Office Mix, demo the new integration of Office Mix within the Discovering Computers & Microsoft Office 2013 MindTap course.
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Attention Mac users! Apple has released OS X 10.11.1, the first update for its El Capitan operating system. This update includes a fix for the reported crash problems that have plagued Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac users. Apple’s accompanying update notes stated that this update, “Improves compatibility with Microsoft Office 2016.”
Learn more and visit Apple’s site for additional OS X 10.11.1 update information.
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Earlier this month, we published a blog post with information about Microsoft’s free upgrade to Windows 10. The Microsoft team has created a very helpful list of frequently asked questions about the free upgrade to Windows 10. Be sure to check it out if you have any questions or concerns about upgrading your Operating System to the latest version of Windows.
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Office Mix makes it incredibly easy to create and share dynamic presentations. (If you’re familiar with using PowerPoint, you’re more than halfway there!) You can add voice overs and other audio, as well as quizzes, interactive activities, and simulations. Office Mix also helps you measure outcomes—you can see how much time students spend in each slide, and check on how they’ve performed as individuals on those quizzes that you’ve embedded.
Download the free Microsoft Office Mix add-on to get started.
During the 2015 Cengage Learning Computing Conference, Jim Federico provided attendees with an introduction to the capabilities of Office Mix. Here are a few suggestions from the presentation:
Thanks to the growth in online learning and flipped classrooms, more instructors are creating interactive video lectures designed to educate and engage students. New software solutions such as Microsoft Office Mix provide instructors with the ability to create these dynamic presentations with skill, polish, and ease.
We’re so excited that Cengage Learning is the first publisher to partner with Microsoft to offer Microsoft Office Mix integrated within our MindTap digital learning solution. Shelly Cashman’s Discovering Computers & Microsoft Office 2013, the first integrated course, is now available, and integrating additional MindTap for Computing courses is slated for the future.
“Office Mix turns PowerPoint into a powerful interactive lesson authoring solution,” says Jim Federico, Principle Product Manager at Microsoft. “We’re delighted to support Cengage’s innovation that enables instructors and students to create engaging and interactive learning content.”
Each chapter in the MindTap for Shelly Cashman’s Discovering Computers & Microsoft Office 2013 is accompanied by a ready-to-use Office Mix presentation that includes walk throughs, videos and knowledge checks. You can also create your own Office Mix presentations and add them to the course—and encourage your students to do the same!
Visit the Cengage Blog and check out a sample of this new MindTap learning solution.
Would you like to know what’s new with Office 2016?
Find out by watching a recording of our webinar with Cengage Computing superstar and author Corinne Hoisington! She explains some of the changes that Microsoft has rolled out with the recent releases of Windows 10 and Office 2016.
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Microsoft Office 2016 was designed to improve productivity. TechRepublic recently outlined ten interesting and productivity-enhancing new features in Office 2016.