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Ark Boulton Academy improved homework consistency and visibility by standardising assignments in Microsoft Teams and introducing analytics. Within a single term, homework activity doubled, adoption spread across departments and leaders gained a clear, school-wide view, enabling more targeted support for both staff and students.

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The CDB Portal is designed to make life easier for our customers. It’s a central space where school leaders and administrators can manage SharePoint and Teams. Users with permissions can create new SharePoint sites, organise class cover and generate assignment analytics reports in just a few clicks.   Recently, we’ve given it a brand new look, … Read more

How to create group assignments in Class Teams Microsoft 365

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

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 educator actions! 1. Posts Have group discussions, video calls and praise students. Great for communicating with your class. 2. Files Individual student work folders for any work … Read more

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 trends, digital activity and much more. You can find out more information on Cloud Design Box and how we can help your school get the most out of Microsoft Teams … Read more

Cloud Design Box will be exhibiting at Bett 2020 from Wednesday 23rd January until Saturday 15th January 2020 on stand NQ21. Bett is the global meeting place for education buyers and it’s mission is to create a better future by transforming education and bringing together over 800 leading companies and over 34,000 visitors. We will … Read more

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