Paras Dodhia presented on using Sway in learning and corporate environments. Sway is a cloud-based storytelling application from Microsoft that allows users to create web-based newsletters, presentations, and documentation. Dodhia demonstrated creating a press release and interactive training manual using a shared Sway template. He also discussed sharing Sways by email or embedding them on webpages. The presentation concluded with a question and answer session.

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2. Presented by: Paras Dodhia
SharePoint Saturday Ottawa 2018
Founder and CEO, Mindlab Systems
 Twitter: @parasvdodhia
 Email: paras@dodhia.co
 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindlab/
 Blog: https://blog.dodhia.co
Office365 Sway usage in a
Learning and Corporate Environment

4. History of Content Creation

5. What is Sway?
 Latest addition to Microsoft Office
 Cloud based story telling application
 Create web based newsletters, presentations, and documentation in minutes.
 More then 24 million users
 Multilingual - Available in 39 languages
 Sway suggests media to populate in your card based on your keywords
 Save precious time with effortless design

6. Creating content in Sway
 Sway offers three different layout options for how the content is presented:
 vertical (like scrolling through a webpage),
 horizontal (continuous scroll sideways),
 and Slideshow (similar to PowerPoint). You can switch between layouts in the “Design” tab (click
“Styles”).

7. Sway Templates
• Sway: Sway is much more limited in available templates.
• There are a couple dozen available on the My Sways page.
• You can also save a Sway as a template.
• Within Sway, there are few design templates called “Styles.” The word template is almost too strong in this
case – these control the overall design only. They work with all of the layout choices and are customizable.

8. What can you achieve and make using Sway?
Examples
• The Universe - https://sway.com/universe_cheatsheet
• Making Water Work - https://sway.com/making_water_work

9. What can you achieve and make using Sway?
Continued.
Corporate Environment. Continued.
Examples
• Vision Document - https://sway.com/Template_Vision_Document
• Resume - https://sway.com/Template_Resume_Writing_Samples

10. Getting Started
• Go to Sway.com or your Office365 instance.
• Login with your Windows Live or Office365 ID.

11. Creating a Sway
• Create New – bare bones template.
• Start from a topic – powered by Wikipedia –
search for any subject and let Sway build the
skeleton of your presentation with media and
content.
• Upload any file with content and let Sway
generate the presentation.

12. Add content from anywhere

13. File size limits for Sway

14. Integrate with other tools in the O365 stack
• Forms
• PowerBI reports

15. Sharing a Sway
• Specific people or groups.
• Those in your organization
with a Link.
• Anyone with a link.
• Embed to a Web page.

16. The Future – roadmap.office.com

17. Demonstration
 Create a Sway
 Shareable Corporate Template. From this template we will create the following.
 Press Release
 Business Process Interactive Training Manual
 and finally Share a Sway
 By Email
 Embed to a Webpage
Goals

18. A Moment of Curiosity
Q&A + Discussion

19. Salon A
@4:45 pm
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20. Paras Dodhia
Founder and CEO, Mindlab Systems
 Twitter: @parasvdodhia
 Email: paras@dodhia.co
 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindlab/
 Blog: https://blog.dodhia.co