During this course you will learn how to use the core applications included in Lotus Notes 8, including Mail, Calendar, Contacts, To Do, and Personal Journal. This course covers how to perform the most common tasks in both the Standard and Basic configurations.

The application you will use the most is Mail, as it is a key personal and business application. You will learn how to use the Calendar to organize your time and track your tasks in the To Do application.

You will keep track of people in Contacts and keep information in your Personal Journal. As you use the core Notes applications, you will recognize a common pattern that builds your competence and confidence in using almost any Notes application such as a Discussion, which you will join at the end of the course.

Because Notes incorporates Sametime instant messaging, you will also know when people are online so you can chat in real time. Beyond the technical aspects of using Notes, you will learn the “best practices” of how to use Notes to become a more effective communicator and collaborator.

Lotus Training Learning Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• navigate in the Notes user interface (both the Basic and Standard editions of Notes are covered in this course)
• launch the core Notes applications from the Home Page and from bookmarks
• set user and Mail preferences to customize your working environment
• send and receive email messages that include formatted text, tables, images, Web links, and file attachments
• find and read new email messages
• take action on email messages, which may mean to mark for follow up later, respond to now, forward, copy into a new meeting or to do, or block the sender from sending future messages
• configure Out-of-Office notification to respond to email messages when you are away
• change the sort order of messages, use full text search to find message content, group messages by mail thread, and organize messages into folders
• add people and groups to your Contacts application
• use the Calendar application to schedule appointments and meetings
• keep track of your tasks in the To Do application
• use the Personal Journal application to save important information
• know when other people are online and communicate with instant messages
• participate in a shared Discussion on a Domino server.

This course is sold as a 1 day course.

Lotus Training Course outline

Topic 1: Start Lotus Notes
Pattern of using Notes
Core applications included in Notes
Public and custom applications
Applications are integrated by Notes
Basic and Standard configurations of Notes
Exercise: Start Lotus Notes
Home Page
Pattern to use core applications
Open core applications
Exercise: Open core applications
Bookmarks and the Home Page
Exit Notes
Preferences

Topic 2: Send an Email Message
Create message
Toolbars
Action buttons
Address fields
Type ahead addressing
Select addresses
Subject field
Body field
Spell checking
Send message
Exercise: Create and send message
Where is the message you sent or saved?
File attachments
Exercise: Attach file
Re-send message
Recall message

Topic 3: Read Email Messages
Read a message
Exercise: Read a message
Find new messages
Best Practice: Schedule time to read new messages
Print message you are reading
Take action on attached files


Topic 4: Respond to Email Messages
Best Practice: Take action on messages
Is this message relevant to me?
Mark message for follow up
Exercise: Follow up
Reply to a message
Exercise: Reply to a message
Forward a message
Copy into New Meeting or To Do
Block Sender
Move message to a folder
Delete message
Exercise: Delete and recover a message
Reply automatically if away from the office
View Collaboration History

Topic 5: Find and Organize Email Messages
Folder and view sorting
Rearrange columns
Find text in a folder or view
Full Text Search
Toolbar Search
Related messages
Folders
Create a new folder
File a message
Exercise: Organize mail into a folder
Remove a message from a folder
Exercise: Add and remove messages from folder
Discover Folders

Topic 6: Keep Track of Your Contacts
Open Contacts
New contact
Finished contact
Exercise: Create contact
Best Practice: Create contact from message
Create Contact from a directory lookup
View actions
Print labels from contacts
Create vCard from Contact
Group documents
Create Group from selected Contacts
Exercise: Create group from selected Contacts
Create Group from sent messages

Topic 7: Create an Appointment in your Calendar
Calendar elements
Day-At-A-Glance Sidebar Application
Create Calendar Entry
Calendar Entry types
Appointment fields
Date and Time entry
Exercise: Create appointment
Delete entry
Optional fields
Workday definitions
Exercise: Availability schedule
Conflict checking
Exercise: Conflict checking
Holidays
Print Calendar
Print Calendar to document

Topic 8: Schedule a Meeting in Your Calendar
Schedule a meeting
Who
Response and Workflow Options
Where
Find Available Times tab
Owner: Save and Send Invitations action button
Owner: Save as Draft action button
Exercise: Schedule a meeting
Participant: Respond to an invitation
Owner: Look for responses
Owner: View Invitee Status
Owner: Declined room or resource reservations
Owner: Make changes to scheduled meeting
Participant: Request changes to scheduled meeting
Exercise: Accept a meeting invitation

Topic 9: Track your To Do Items
New To Do
Where to find To Do Items
Complete a To Do Item
Incomplete view
Exercise: Create To Do
Copy into New To Do
Group To Do
Exercise: Group To Do

Topic 10: Make Personal Journal Entries
Open Personal Journal
Create and edit Journal Entry document
Exercise: Create and edit documents in Personal Journal
Delete Journal Entry document
Forward Journal Entry document

Topic 11: Chat using Sametime
Who you can chat with
Web conferencing
Log in to Sametime
Change your online status
Presence awareness in Notes applications
In-context chat with person who is online
Exercise: In-context chat
Toolbar extras
Sametime Contacts
Add contact
Sametime Contacts icons
Two-way chat from the Sametime Contacts list
Exercise: Add contact and chat
Group chat
Exercise: Group chat

Topic 12: Join a Discussion
Best Practice: Organizational perspective of email and chat
Multi-purpose Discussion applications
Exercise: Open Public Forum application
Views
Main Topic form
View categories
Quickly read documents
Edit and delete documents
Application security
Exercise: Create a Main Topic document
Response documents
Exercise: Create responses
Dual-purpose view twisties
DocLinks
DocLink caveats
Create a Notes Document Link
Exercise: Create Document Link
Move or copy a DocLink icon
Link message
Paste DocLink into Chat window