CDB FOR EDUCATION
The Microsoft Teams and SharePoint platform built for schools
Trusted by 800+ schools to turn Microsoft 365 into a powerful virtual learning environment and save teachers time.
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Comprehensive benefits for schools and school groups
Bring everything, and everyone, together
Bring all of your teaching and learning apps, resources and communications channels together with a secure, central online portal.
Replace network drives
Harness the full potential of Microsoft for education — you can create long-term, easily accessible storage areas in Teams and SharePoint.
Work and learn, collaboratively
Your mission-critical files and learning resources will be stored securely in a system that is both intuitive to use and personalised to staff and pupils, wherever they are.
Reduce workload
Save huge amounts of time thanks to automated resource areas where teachers can co-author, share and ensure students can access resources year after year.
Allowing teachers to teach
A global, personalised menu for easy, clear navigation so that all your staff will be able to take advantage of the technology you have invested in.
Increase staff and pupil engagement
Comprehensive training and on-going support to maximise adoption and ensure best practice from the start.
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How our customers have benefitted from Cloud Design Box
Resilience MAT Transforms Cross-Trust Collaboration with Cloud Design Box
With its roots in the 1930s, the then Rothwell Grammar was founded to educate children from the small Leeds town and environs.
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Connecting The Stowe School together for stronger engagement
The Stowe Group is an independent school group educating around 1,600 learners across one senior and two prep schools.
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Pate’s Grammar School, Cheltenham assigns Cloud Design Box
A highly selective and progressive institution, Pate’s Grammar School is dedicated to achieving excellence in every aspect.
Read moreMicrosoft 365 for Education: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What is the best way to use Microsoft 365 in a school?
Microsoft 365 works best when SharePoint, Teams and OneDrive sit within one clear structure, rather than being used as separate apps. Staff and students then find what they need in one place, not five.
Cloud Design Box builds an education-focused Microsoft 365 environment. Communication, resources, policies and teaching tools all live somewhere consistent.
Automation can also use data from your school MIS to create and maintain the right Teams, groups and resources. That cuts the manual admin, and helps you get more from the Microsoft 365 licences you already have.
What is Cloud Design Box for Education?
Cloud Design Box is a Microsoft 365 platform and service built specifically for education. It brings together SharePoint intranets, Microsoft Teams, education-specific tools and MIS-driven automation. Governance, training and ongoing support come as part of it.
The aim is to turn Microsoft 365 into a structured digital environment that staff and students find easy to use.
You don’t need to design your setup from scratch. We bring proven structures and automation, shaped by our work with hundreds of education organisations.
How is Cloud Design Box different from standard Microsoft SharePoint and Teams?
Microsoft gives you SharePoint and Teams as flexible platforms. That flexibility is useful, but it does leave a lot for schools to decide. How should sites, Teams, permissions, navigation, resources and academic processes all work?
Cloud Design Box adds an education-specific structure on top of Microsoft 365:
- School intranet design
- MIS integration and automated Class Teams
- Resource areas and education-focused web parts
- Governance and training
- Academic year rollover
So you get a ready-made approach, and you keep the security, identity and Microsoft 365 services you already use.
Does Cloud Design Box integrate with our school MIS?
Yes. Cloud Design Box integrates with the leading school management information systems.
That integration automates Microsoft 365 jobs like creating classes, Microsoft Teams, subject areas, departments, groups and student folders. When your MIS data changes — pupils, staff, classes, timetables — Microsoft 365 updates to match. Less manual admin for your team, and everything stays accurate through the academic year.
We integrate with Arbor, Bromcom, iSAMS, SIMS, Veracross, Unit-E, Progresso, ManageBac, Compass, Go4Schools, Pass, REMS and SQL, plus other systems depending on what your school needs.
Our team can advise on the best integration approach for your existing MIS.
How does Cloud Design Box help schools prepare for Microsoft Copilot and AI?
AI tools like Microsoft Copilot work best when information is well organised, permissions are right, and staff can trust what they’re able to access.
Cloud Design Box helps you improve the structure and governance of Microsoft 365. We create clearer SharePoint sites, Teams, resource areas and permissions.
That gives you a stronger foundation for AI. Information is easier to find, there’s less duplication, and access is managed more consistently across your organisation.
