Cloud Design Box has achieved the Microsoft Education Solution badge, further demonstrating our understanding and expertise in Microsoft Education. The new badge dovetails with our existing accreditations, such as Microsoft Education Global Training Partner and our Microsoft School Data Sync Professional status. “To earn this badge, we needed to possess a comprehensive understanding of … Read more
The Microsoft Translator app in Class Notebook allows students to capture a transcript of what the teacher is saying during a lesson, which can help support students who have a hearing impairment, struggle with auditory processing or simply find taking notes and listening at the same time a challenge. How to activate live captions with … Read more
The Microsoft Translator app is a free app that can be downloaded from the Google Play Store or the Apple Store on any mobile device. With many different features and tools, the app is excellent for working with EAL students and opening up conversations who face language barriers in the classroom. This guide shows how … Read more
Microsoft has released some much-anticipated features to Teams that make delivering quality teaching and learning even easier. Ranging from invisible feedback to deleting sections in Class Notebooks, these new features have been long-awaited by many teachers and schools. In the video, Joe gives you a roundup of all the best new features. Invisible Feedback. Providing … Read more
The collaboration space in Class Notebook allows students and teachers to work together on a learning resource in real-time. This is a great opportunity for students to get more involved in working as a group as they can add text, digital ink (drawing) and insert images and videos. Although letting your class loose on a … Read more
Reflect check-ins in Class Notebook are a brilliant way for teachers to get a good understanding of which students may need additional support or guidance. Meanwhile, reflecting on learning is good practice for students to build self-awareness and take ownership of their own education. In this guide, we show you how to insert a … 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
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
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
Reading Progress is a tool in Microsoft Class Teams that supports teachers in tracking their students’ reading fluency and progress. The feature allows students to record themselves reading assigned passages and automatically generates data based on their performance. In this guide, we show you how to set up Reading Progress and tailor it to your … Read more
In this podcast episode, we speak with David James, Head of Education at Cornerstone Academy Trust and Anthony Lees, Deputy of Westclyst Community Primary School. The Cornerstone Academy Trust is made up of four primary schools, including Broadclyst Community Primary School, Westclyst Community Primary School, Yeo Valley Community Primary School and Monkerton Community Primary School. … 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
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
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
Cloud Design Box and SalamanderSoft have partnered up to design and deliver three free webinars tailored to schools, academies and Multi Academy Trusts who are looking to make the most out of remote and blended learning with Microsoft Teams. Throughout January and February, the training sessions are free to anyone who works at a school, … Read more
Our Office 365 User Adoption Podcast highlights real-life stories from schools, academies and Multi Academy Trusts on how they’ve successfully rolled out Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Teams to staff and students. In this podcast episode, we spoke with Rachael Howarth, Vice Principal at Bradford Girls’ Grammar School and Business Studies teacher on how they’re using … Read more
Arbor MIS is partnering with Cloud Design Box to host three free training sessions specially designed for schools, academies and multi academy trusts who are using, or planning to use, Microsoft Teams to deliver blended learning for their students. Click here to register for any of our three sessions Arbor MIS works with over 1,250 … 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
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