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As a teacher it’s important to measure engagement of students that are home learning. Microsoft Teams has given us a quick and easy tool ...

Arbor MIS is partnering with Cloud Design Box to host three free training sessions specially designed for schools, academies and multi ac...

Missing Class Team? It may have been deleted, here is a guide on how to restore a deleted Team! A Team consists of an Office 365 groups, ...

During these difficult times, blended learning has been critical in providing students with uninterrupted learning. The blended learning ...

Before you start to use Teams in school, it is important to consider setting policies for safeguarding to promote the welfare of children...

We’ve recently welcomed two new starters to the Cloud Design Box team. Since March, we have been operating fully remotely, supporting our...

It’s important to keep track and evidence who has read policy documents in any organisation or school. Below, we have created a vid...

Are you new to Teams or not quite sure about the right places to do things? We have created a simple overview below for some of your key ...

Book Your Place on our Free Training Sessions for SharePoint and Microsoft Teams Cloud Design Box Announced as Microsoft Global Training ...

During the academic year rollover process in Microsoft School Data Sync, schools can choose clean-up actions for their old class teams. T...

In this video guide, we take you through adding the insights tab to Class Teams and how to use it to track student usage, assessment tren...

In this podcast, we spoke with James Emmet, Network Manager at Engineering UTC North Lincolnshire about how they use features in Office 3...

In light of the recent Covid-19 outbreak, we’ve put together a short article on the free resources we’ve been working hard to create and ...

In this video and guide we show you the best way to start an online lesson in Microsoft Teams. Follow the tips below if you want to contr...

We have made a quick video guide for students and parents about using Microsoft Teams from home during this time of remote learning. We h...

So, you have school data sync setup and all of your class teams have been generated in Microsoft Teams. Teachers are eager to start using...

This is a quick update from Cloud Design Box. Due to the current situation of social distancing being implemented across the world, we ha...

In this podcast episode, we’ve taken a different approach. Instead of focusing solely on a school’s user adoption methods, we’re looking ...

We’ve been asked by some schools facing part and full closure to create a podcast about delivering virtual lessons using Microsoft ...

In the video below, we look at the different ways of setting retention polices in SharePoint and Teams. Some takeaway points: Retention L...

Managing document expiry can be time consuming and difficult to track. Maybe you have policy documents which need refreshing every year o...

We’ve spoken a lot on this blog and in our podcast about how Microsoft Teams and SharePoint transforms the classroom, from sharing ...

Cloud Design Box will be exhibiting at Bett 2020 from Wednesday 23rd January until Saturday 15th January 2020 on stand NQ21. Bett is the ...

All Class Teams provisioned by Microsoft School Data Sync are now deactivated for students. This means the students can only access the t...

Guest post by Courtney Farrow with video by Tony Phillips With 98% of classrooms now using computers, laptops and tablets, it’s safe to s...

Conversations and instant messaging are only one part of Microsoft Class Teams. Its true power shines through when teachers share their r...

Microsoft Teams is a great collaboration tool and can be used to extend the classroom. In our latest podcast, Tony and Darren from Cloud ...

In our Office 365 User Adoption Podcast this month, Tony and Darren from Cloud Design Box talk about the benefits of tagging resources an...

Microsoft Teams has had a makeover with some new UI and feature changes this summer. In the video below, we go through these changes and ...

Lots of new and exciting features are coming to Microsoft Teams this summer, so get ready for the new academic year in advance and resolv...

In this video, I explore the new announcement feature in Microsoft Teams. It’s part of a big education release this summer, we will...

Read more about how to setup and use rubrics in Microsoft Teams in our previous post. There are options available in Microsoft Teams to e...

Class Notebook has a really nice feature which allows teachers to distribute pages to student sections so that they can work on their own...

You know how much Office 365 could transform your school or academy, but how do you convince the rest of the staff and student body? Gett...

SharePoint, Class Notebook and Teams forms the foundation for curriculum delivery at The Cornerstone Academy Trust. Hearing stories about...

We understand that seamless user adoption of Office 365 and SharePoint can prove tricky, with many hurdles to jump before your whole orga...

At Cloud Design Box, we have created a free Google search box SPFx web part. It’s a very simple web part to add a Google search box...

Smooth, frictionless user adoption can be tricky. You’ve decided that Office 365 and SharePoint is right for you. But, there’...

It’s the update that schools have been waiting for. Today Microsoft announced parental access to Microsoft Teams assignments throug...

Releasing organisational and team communication via SharePoint news articles is a powerful way to connect with colleagues. News articles ...

The future role of SharePoint with the advent of Teams has been on my mind for over a year now. Teams is built on top of SharePoint but i...

Microsoft Forms quizzes can now be assigned to students in Microsoft Teams for education. These are auto-marked and the results are fed a...

Sharing a document via SharePoint has many advantages. Traditional ways of sharing a document (such as emailing) creates many problems su...

Rubrics are a powerful tool used to assess students’ work. The criterion helps students to have a concrete understanding and visual...

There’s a real buzz around Microsoft Teams. Microsoft have been increasing the momentum by releasing updates to improve the class c...

Tagging resources with metadata can provide a range of advantages when it comes to sorting, grouping and searching. You might decide to c...

How exciting, SharePoint web parts can now talk to other parts of Office 365 rather than just SharePoint using the Microsoft Graph and th...

Microsoft Forms are a great way to quickly gather survey results or produce quizzes. It could be testing employees on health and safety i...

I’m going to be at Bett 2018 next week with the Cloud Design Box team, really excited to have some stand space this year with our M...

Homework has many benefits for students including learning how to work independently, staying organised and taking responsibility for the...