Tidy up Teams channels

Microsoft Class Teams channels can quickly become cluttered if you’re teaching multiple topics or juggling conversations between different and groups.  

This guide shows you how you can organise everything neatly by creating and managing channels.

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Staying organised while teaching multiple topics in Microsoft Teams can quickly become difficult. If your OneNote Class Notebook is starting to look like a digital junk drawer, this guide will help you tidy things up, fast.  

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We walk you through how to create a custom grading scheme within Teams, how to apply grading schemes to assignments, and then how to grade student work using your new system. 

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Switching to a new Management Information System (MIS) is a significant step for any school. But one of the most critical concerns is ensuring that your existing digital infrastructure — especially your Microsoft 365 (M365) platform — remains smoothly integrated. Cloud Design Box integrates effortlessly with all major UK MIS providers to streamline your integration … Read more

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This guide walks you through how to effectively reuse assignments in Teams, making class management smoother while ensuring consistent and high-quality learning resources.

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Add a personal touch to SharePoint and Microsoft Teams with our new work anniversaries and birthdays Viva Connections Card.   This simple yet engaging addition to your intranet can boost employee experience and improve workplace culture by recognising and celebrating special milestones.   What is Microsoft Vivia Connections?  The Microsoft Viva Connections Dashboard allows you to create … Read more

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Microsoft Reflect offers teachers the perfect way to receive feedback from students about how they’re feeling. But did you know you can add a Reflect Check-in to specific assignments? Reflect Check-ins in Microsoft bring a number of benefits to the classroom: Feelings Monsters in Microsoft Reflect These fun creatures allow students to express their thoughts … Read more

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You must activate any new class teams in Microsoft Teams in order to use them. In this guide, we show you how to activate a new class team.   Microsoft released a new Microsoft Teams for Education in late 2023. This has resulted in things looking a little bit different for schools managing their classes … Read more

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Muting students in Microsoft Class Teams is useful if you’ve got a student making inappropriate comments or distracting the class. In this guide, we show you how to manage student comments, mute individual students and mute the entire class in Microsoft Teams.   There are a few reasons why teachers may wish to delete student … Read more

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For educators juggling teaching and administrative tasks, every minute is precious. Microsoft Teams offers a practical feature to streamline your workload: the ability to import assignment settings from one class to another. Picture this: You’re setting up your digital classroom in Teams for the new academic term. The structure of your assignments largely mirrors those … Read more

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Microsoft Teams and SharePoint have emerged as powerful platforms for schools and multi academy trusts (MATS), facilitating collaboration, improving communication and driving up the quality of teaching and learning.  In this guide, we showcase some of the ways in which Microsoft 365 is supporting our MAT customers in accelerating digital transformation and streamlining senior leadership.  … Read more

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The new branching feature in Microsoft Forms allows you to create an interactive survey, that brings up specific questions based on the responses given by participants. Microsoft Forms is an invaluable tool for both teachers and students, offering educators a quick and easy way to create surveys and quizzes to gather insights into a class’s … Read more

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Microsoft’s Reading Progress tool is great for language learning and improvement, giving teachers and students valuable insights on improving pronunciation and accuracy. See our guide on using Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams.  In this blog, we’re going to be taking a closer look at the Word Clouds that Microsoft Teams produce based on the words … Read more

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