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
MS Forms is an excellent way to make quizzes to test your students. The latest MS Teams update makes setting up timers in forms super-easy. This blog post shows you how to do just that, saving you time in the classroom, leading to a smoother learning experience for your students. Set timer in Microsoft Forms … Read more
The new updates to Microsoft Class Teams Assignments in 2023 have really impressed us, so today we’re going through some of the top changes we know are enhancing both the teacher and student experience. Joe runs through each feature in this video guide: New assignment creation layout The new layout of Create Assignment places a … Read more
We’re thrilled to announce the release of the new CDB Section Breaks SharePoint Web Part, which adds a new dimension to your SharePoint page design. The CDB Section Breaks Web Part allows you to create different shaped sections on your SharePoint sites, for example curved or zigzag lines that add more flare and visual interest to … Read more
As the new academic year approaches, it’s time to: Update your Microsoft Data Sync (SDS). Archive old classes. Create new teams for the new academic year. This blog post is a step-by-step guide on how to update your SDS for the new academic year. Cloud Design Box Customers If you’re a Cloud Design Box customer, … Read more
Sometimes you need just a minute to yourself, a minute to relax, calm down and realign. Now, with Microsoft Teams, you can do just that. Take a breather with this one-minute exercise on Viva Insights on Microsoft 365. A one-minute break can be just the thing you need to reset. In Teams, head over to … Read more
Unlock the full potential of your SharePoint news pages with the invaluable scheduling feature. By strategically automating content release and fostering collaboration, you can take control of your publishing process and captivate your audience with timely and engaging updates. Scheduling news items and pages is a great way to: Maximise time efficiency – save time by … Read more
We are excited to review Microsoft Classwork – the exciting new education Teams app! In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to unlock the full potential of Classwork, making your lesson planning process a breeze and organising your class resources efficiently. With Classwork, you can streamline everything from Assignments and OneNote Class Notebook pages to … Read more
Search Coach is a Microsoft Learning Accelerator that helps students develop their research skills when searching the web. Microsoft Learning Accelerators aim to make education more accessible by providing students with the tools they need to develop their learning and teaching them skills that are essential in further education and later in their professional life. … Read more
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
The new Microsoft Teams Reading Coach feature allows students to practice and improve their confidence with reading aloud and pronunciation. Students can read out loud to the reading coach, and it responds with helpful feedback to improve accuracy and highlight any words the student has struggled with. You can access this feature through Immersive Reader, … Read more
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
Introducing our new student assignment search feature, now available to all teaching staff! With this latest addition, you can effortlessly search for a student and view all of their Microsoft Teams assignments. As a head of year or registration group teacher, you can use this tool to support students with their workload or quickly check … Read more
Weighted grading categories in Microsoft Teams Assignments provide your students with an overall percentage grade based on the different weightings and different assignments that you can set. For example, you can set up homework as making up 20% of a student’s grade, quizzes as 30% and in-class assignments at 50%. Did you know that … Read more
In this guide, we show you how you can save attachments from an email directly out of Outlook into SharePoint. We’ve all wasted a lot of time scouring our inboxes, hunting for files in email threads. Get into a good habit of saving your important emails and their attachments in SharePoint so you can … Read more
The Call To Action SharePoint Web Part is a Cloud Design Box exclusive feature that allows you to quickly create professional-looking and eye-catching call to actions on your SharePoint sites. This guide shows you how to add a Call To Action to your SharePoint sites. How to add a Call To Action Web part … Read more
Immersive Reader is built into many Microsoft apps and is brilliant for offering additional reading support to students. The tool offers many different features, including the ability to change font sizes and colours, read aloud passages and translate text into other languages, making it excellent for supporting SEND and EAL students inside and outside the … Read more
Microsoft 365 for Education has a number of excellent tools that can help support students who use English as an additional language (EAL). This quick guide gives you an overview of our three favourite tools you can use to break down language barriers in the classroom. Live translate conversations with Microsoft Translator. The Microsoft Translator … Read more
Scheduling assignments to automatically post to students at a later date allows teachers to plan ahead and save time. This quick guide shows you how to schedule your assignments in Microsoft Teams for Education in a few easy steps. Scheduling assignments for later. First, you need to create a new assignment in Teams. Head to … Read more
Microsoft Teams now lets you reuse old assignments for your current classes. This is excellent news as it not only helps teachers save time but also offers consistency with your assignments each year. Reusing assignments is really simple, and you can edit assignments and change them as much as you like to suit your current … Read more
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