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Microsoft Sway

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Overview

Overview

Microsoft Sway is a web-based authoring tool for creating responsive presentations, reports, newsletters, portfolios, tutorials, and story-style pages. Users combine text, images, video, embeds, and other content while Sway automatically adapts the layout for different screens. District staff and students can publish information without designing a custom website. A published page connects embedded material with source permissions and its intended audience. Staff or teachers maintain that relationship when using Sway for public communication or student-created work.

Features

Features

Responsive authoring

  • Creates scrolling or presentation-style stories from text, images, video, and embeds.
  • Automatically adjusts layouts across browsers and devices.

Sharing

  • Supports coauthoring, links, embeds, permissions, duplication, and presentation modes.
  • Can incorporate content from Microsoft 365 and other sources.

Education uses

  • Supports newsletters, student projects, reports, portfolios, lessons, and public information.
  • Offers accessible design and viewing features.

Student Data Privacy

Student Data Privacy
Review the Common Sense Privacy Rating:
N/A

Microsoft Sway Privacy Policy:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy?icid=DSM_Footer_Company_Privacy

Signed California Student Data Privacy Agreement?
Yes

Company News

Company News

Interoperability

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Sway is a web-based Microsoft Office tool that allows users to convey information as a newsletter, presentation, or document. Users can customize their Sway with headings, text, video, and images. Sways can be created from scratch, from a template, or from an existing file such as an outline created in Word. Content is then organized into sections called cards which can be easily dragged and dropped to reorder the information. Sway allows presenters, teachers, and students to visually organize the information they want to share and each Sway has its own link so that Sways can be shared easily on the web and through email or social media. 

Sway is a web-based Microsoft Office tool that allows users to convey information as a newsletter, presentation, or document. Users can customize their Sway with headings, text, video, and images. Sways can be created from scratch, from a template, or from an existing file such as an outline created in Word. Content is then organized into sections called cards which can be easily dragged and dropped to reorder the information. Sway allows presenters, teachers, and students to visually organize the information they want to share and each Sway has its own link so that Sways can be shared easily on the web and through email or social media. 

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