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Have you ever wanted to see exactly who has viewed a document and when? In this guide, Tony demonstrates the SharePoint Viewers feature, which allows you to see who has viewed your documents in SharePoint. By default, when you hover over a document in SharePoint, it shows how many people have viewed the file. … Read more
In this quick video, Tony shows you how to add assignments in Microsoft Teams to student and teacher calendars. When you next go to set a task in Assignments in Teams, look for the option to Add assignment to calendars. Here you have four options: None – The default setting and will not add … Read more
OneNote can be used to create and organise digital learning content for students – that can be shared in a centralised area. Teachers can create a mini-website/digital topic notebook for each topic that can then be shared via a link or in Teams. Important: This is not a tutorial on creating Class Notebooks. For more … Read more
Getting students engaged outside of the classroom can be difficult. While most students understand that they must complete homework and assignments for their classes, creating homework assignments that are engaging helps to reinforce learning and development. Below, we have some ideas on how you can use some of the tools in Microsoft 365, Teams … Read more
We know that time is precious when you work in education; whether you’re marking, planning, or delivering a lesson, it can be tricky to find the time to get back to what you love about teaching. While we can’t increase the number of hours in your day, we can give you some ideas on saving … Read more
We partnered with Haldor to deliver a free session for schools and multi academy trusts focusing on boosting parental engagement in students’ homework using Microsoft Teams. While there are some great advantages to parents and guardians being engaged in their child’s learning and homework assignments, it can be a challenge for schools and trusts to … Read more
We have launched a new SharePoint web part exclusive for Cloud Design Box customers called My Assignments, allowing students to see all their current and upcoming assignments from their SharePoint homepage. Your school’s SharePoint homepage should give students a quick overview of what’s going on in the school community, and their classroom. Popular features of a school intranet include the latest news, an announcement from the headteacher … Read more
In Microsoft Teams Assignments, a weekly assignment summary email can be sent automatically to parents and guardians of students. This is an easy way to inform and engage parents in their child’s homework, as the digest gives them an overview of what assignments have been completed and which are yet to be handed in. If you don’t … Read more
Microsoft Teams has a new feature, allowing teachers to return assignments to students for additional revisions and changes. This feature is highly anticipated by teachers and solves a key problem that many schools have highlighted to us. The problem: Previously, students could go into their assignments and submit work, even when the work is missing … Read more
Teams has introduced a new group assignments feature, allowing students to work together and submit one assignment for the whole group. Teachers can then provide feedback and grades to either each individual student within that group or give out an overall grade for the group. Below is a walk-through of how you can: Create a … Read more
The Microsoft School Data Sync (SDS) rollover process 2021 has changed slightly since last year, so we have created a video guide to walk you through the process. If your profile has expired and you’re ready to start the academic year, then this guide is for you. One thing you’ll notice is that there is … Read more
Keep everyone in your organisation in the loop with the news feature on SharePoint. Whether you’re using Microsoft 365 for business or education, this feature is a brilliant way to share important information, announcements and updates. The best part is that it’s incredibly easy to set up, create and publish eye-catching content to your SharePoint … Read more
Using Presenter Mode in a Microsoft Class Teams meeting gives teachers more control over their lesson. They have access to their presenter notes and all the usual Class Teams tools, plus additional presenter options. Presenter Mode is only available in the desktop application of Teams. In this quick guide, we show you how to use … Read more
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 we have a Notebook that has been stored within an English resources folder on SharePoint. Within the Notebook, there’s a worksheet that we need to distribute to the Year 7 English … Read more
The chat feature in Microsoft Teams is a useful tool that allows students to communicate with their teachers and peers during online lessons. However, there may be times where the chat feature isn’t necessary and is causing distractions during lesson time. Similar to the mute feature on Teams, this can easily be controlled and turned … Read more
Locking a page within Class Notebook is important when marking and assessing work, to prevent the student from editing the document after its deadline. In this guide, we show you how to review students work in Class Notebook and how to lock a page to prevent further editing by a student. How to review pages … Read more
In this guide, we show you how to lock the collaboration section in a Class Notebook. The collaboration space in a Class Notebook is where all students can edit the same pages and work together on projects. After using it, teachers may wish to lock the section to prevent students from editing the page, or … Read more
In this guide, we discuss how we can prevent unwelcome guests from joining our online lessons in Microsoft Teams. Enable lobby for all Class Teams meetings in your school. Making sure the meeting policy for teachers within this school’s tenancy is set so that the lobby is enabled. Firstly, make sure your meeting policy for … Read more
Breakout rooms in Microsoft Class Teams launched in January 2021, allowing teachers to create sub-meetings within the main class meeting for students to work together in small groups and discuss their learning. In this discussion, we’ve included everything you need to know about breakout rooms in Teams, from how to set them up to safeguarding … Read more
Schools are currently facing additional challenges when managing class cover as a result of a teacher being absent due to sickness, needing to self-isolate or be re-deployed to teach key worker students. Cloud Design Box has created a solution that allows schools to quickly and easily organise class cover, making sure the member of staff … Read more
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