Tech Tip: Microsoft Planner – The new project management app in Office 365

By: Ryan Johnson

Office 365 Planner tutorial screen shot

Planner is an online project management tool for teams. It’s a tool that will help with structuring teamwork and collaboration on projects by automating many of the tasks related to groups of people working together on a project.

With Planner, team members can create plans with assigned tasks and then add automation such as setting due dates that send out reminders and notifications, updating the status of the project and individual tasks.  Planner allows for easy sharing and collaborating on files, interesting visuals on a dashboard that makes it easy to monitor progress and even make adjustments right from the graphics without having to leave the dashboard.  In these ways, Planner is very similar to Trello.

To learn more about Planner and how to get started, click on the Planner Learning Path.

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