This document provides an overview of the Odoo ERP system. It describes what Odoo is, its major releases over time, how to access a demo version, and how students and teachers can sign up for an educational account to use Odoo's full features for learning purposes. It also outlines various apps in Odoo, how to navigate between them, and next steps users can take to learn more about and start using Odoo.

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Educational Account for
Students and Teachers
ERP
EnterpriseApplications
By Naji El Kotob
naji at dotnetheroes.com
Ver. 2.0 - 2016
Odoo is the registered trademark of Odoo S.A.

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Odoo
 AboutOdoo
 Releases
 Benchmarking
 Demo
 EducationalAccount
 Apps and Navigation
 What Next
 References

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About

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Definition
About Odoo
 Odoo is a suite of 45+ integrated business apps that help you grow
your business.

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Releases
About Odoo
 Tiny ERP (Version 1 to 4 – Feb 2005 to Dec 2006)
 OpenERP (Version 5 to 7 – Apr 2009 to Dec 2012)
 Odoo (Version 8 to 10 – Sep 2014 to Oct 2016)

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Benchmarking
GoogleTrends

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Benchmarking
GoogleTrends

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Odoo.(n.d.). [Digital image]. Retrieved December, 2016, from
https://odoocdn.com/openerp_website/static/src/img/2016/home/hp_graph_04.svg

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DEMO

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DEMO
Odoo in Action
 Odoo offers an easy access to a full-
featured and fully functional demo
version at http://demo.odoo.com to
help you testing and exploring the
system.
 It’s FREE and you can access it
without registration…Woww!
 But, It’s a shared account and your
changes will be reset to the original
demo values after ‘x’ hours…Ooops!

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Dependent / Independent Apps (Odoo 10)
Invoicing Inventory Sales Website Accounting Project
Sales 
POS  
Accounting 
eCommerce   
Manufacturing 
Purchasing  
Expenses  
Timesheet  
Appraisal 
Events 
Quality Control 
…
e.g. POS requires Invoicing and Inventory

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Educational
Account

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Educational Account
 Odoo allows you to create a fully-functional sample company for
your course use case for free.Your database will last for 10 months,
as long as you followed the steps in the next slide…

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Sign-up for an Educational Account
 Go to “Try it Free”
https://www.odoo.com/trial
 Choose any app to start with e.g. “CRM”
 Fill in the Registration Form
 Make sure to start the “Company name” with the prefix
"edu-" e.g. "edu-myschool.odoo.com“
 Select “I am a teacher or a student” from the Primary
Interest drop down list.
 Click on “Start Now” button
 Go to your inbox to Activate your account
 Your database will last 10 months
 Enjoy Odoo 

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Apps &
Navigation

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Apps
Apps and Navigation
 Sign-in to your Odoo account and click on “Apps” to install new
applications.
Apps

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Viewing the Apps
by Group  Not
Installed filter

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Keyboard shortcuts
Apps and Navigation

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What Next! (Details in the next slides)
1. Watch some short videos
2. OdooWebinars atYouTube (Optional)
3. Go to Odoo Demo and play around
4. Join Odoo Groups
5. ERPComparison (Benchmarking)
6. Choose an industry, design your business process
7. Start implementing your private edu- account
8. Odoo Business Mementoes
9. Start reading theOdoo documentation
10. Back to http://demo.odoo.com at any time to freely test the features
11. Enjoy your time 

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Odoo ShortVideos
What Next
In these short videos (±3 minutes) you can discover
the OdooApps; Accounting,CRM, Sales, MRP,
eCommerce, etc.
https://www.odoo.com/page/tour

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Odoo LongVideos (Odoo Webinars)
What Next
15+ hours of webinars to learn Odoo.
It is a good way to discover the
advanced features of Odoo.
http://bit.ly/OdooWebinars

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Odoo DEMO
 Full access, full features… and It’s free.
Just go to http://demo.odoo.com and
play around!

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Teachers mailing list
What Next
 Subscribe to theTeachers mailing list and start sharing ideas with
more than 300 teachers all over the world.
https://www.odoo.com/groups

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ERP ComparisonWhitepaper
What Next
 ERP ComparisonWhitepaper
 https://www.odoo.com/r/ERP-Comparison-Whitepaper

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Choose an industry
 You can use these local search engines (Lebanon):
1. Yellow Pages http://www.yellowpages.com.lb
2. LebWeb http://www.lebweb.com/dir/directory
3. Kompass http://lb.kompass.com
4. 5Index http://www.5index.com
5. Lebanon Directory http://lebanon-directory.com
6. …

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Sign-up for an Educational Account
 Details in slide #15 

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Odoo Business Mementoes
 Odoo Business
Mementoes is a very
useful and interactive
page to learn about
Accounting and Inventory.
https://www.odoo.com/documentation/f
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Odoo documentation
What Next
 Read theOdoo documentation to get started with Odoo quickly
https://www.odoo.com/page/docs

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Your Feedback
 Do you have any comments, questions, suggestions? I would love to
hear your feedback. Please drop me an email at “Naji El Kotob” <naji
[@] dotnetheroes.com>

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References
 Odoo website http://www.odoo.com
 OdooTraining andTutorials
 http://www.odoohelp.com
 http://odoo.thinkific.com
 http://www.emiprotechnologies.com/odoo/training
 http://www.odooclass.com
 https://www.odoo.com/survey/start/functional-certification-sample-3
 http://odorials.com/tutorials/general/how-to-start-using-odoo
 Consultancy
 http://www.odoo-bs.com
 https://odoo-community.org
 http://www.emiprotechnologies.com/odoo-tour
 Community
 https://odoo-community.org

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Learn to Earn!