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Cloud Design Box is hosting a free virtual event for Multi Academy Trusts (MATs) to demonstrate how our Cloud Box package can help stream...

Reading Progress is a tool in Microsoft Class Teams that supports teachers in tracking their students’ reading fluency and progress. The ...

In this podcast episode, we speak with David James, Head of Education at Cornerstone Academy Trust and Anthony Lees, Deputy of Westclyst ...

Using Presenter Mode in a Microsoft Class Teams meeting gives teachers more control over their lesson. They have access to their presente...

In this podcast episode, we speak with Stuart Carvell, Assistant Head at Eaton Bank Academy, which is part of the Fallibroome Trust about...

Microsoft Viva Connections is a great way to communicate and publish information to users in Microsoft Teams. If you are already familiar...

When considering Teams for your school, there are several different approaches, you can create your own Class Teams manually, use a Power...

In this guide, we show you how to distribute a page from a non Class Notebook to a students’ Class Notebook within a Class Team.   Here w...

The chat feature in Microsoft Teams is a useful tool that allows students to communicate with their teachers and peers during online less...

Locking a page within Class Notebook is important when marking and assessing work, to prevent the student from editing the document after...

In this guide, we show you how to lock the collaboration section in a Class Notebook.   The collaboration space in a Class Notebook is wh...

In this guide, we discuss how we can prevent unwelcome guests from joining our online lessons in Microsoft Teams.   Enable lobby for all ...

Cloud Design Box has been working with Wilberforce College, a further education Sixth Form College in Hull, to support them in moving to ...

Cloud Design Box is partnering with Senso Cloud to deliver a free live workshop on Safeguarding in Microsoft Class Teams. Sign-up for fre...

Breakout rooms in Microsoft Class Teams launched in January 2021, allowing teachers to create sub-meetings within the main class meeting ...

Schools are currently facing additional challenges when managing class cover as a result of a teacher being absent due to sickness, needi...

Cloud Design Box and SalamanderSoft have partnered up to design and deliver three free webinars tailored to schools, academies and Multi ...

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

Microsoft Teams meeting recordings are no longer in Microsoft Stream for many education licenses. This means it can be difficult to find ...

SharePoint is a great place for a school or business to store shared resources. However, it can be difficult to keep track of all the dif...

Creating a visually appealing SharePoint site is vital if you want people to engage with it regularly. But you don’t need to spend hours ...

Our Office 365 User Adoption Podcast highlights real-life stories from schools, academies and Multi Academy Trusts on how they’ve success...

With breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams, the teacher can split the class into groups to work on shared tasks, projects, or even competitiv...

The main challenge schools, academies and multi academy trusts face when rolling out a new technology or platform is user adoption. Typic...

Cloud Design Box is hosting five free virtual events in December and January, especially designed for teachers to help them make the most...

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...