Rubrics are a powerful tool used to assess students’ work. The criterion helps students to have a concrete understanding and visualisation of what they need to do to achieve a particular score. Each criterion also includes a gradation scale of quality. Microsoft Teams for education includes rubric based grading. They can be created and reused … Read more
Microsoft Teams meeting recordings are no longer in Microsoft Stream for many education licenses. This means it can be difficult to find or delete recordings at the current time. Microsoft are planning on moving all meeting recordings into OneDrive and SharePoint However, in the meantime recordings are stored in a temporary location (causing issues like … Read more
SharePoint is a great place for a school or business to store shared resources. However, it can be difficult to keep track of all the different document locations. The new “Add shortcut to OneDrive” feature is a great way of keeping track of all the documents you use on a regular basis. Not only does … 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
With breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams, the teacher can split the class into groups to work on shared tasks, projects, or even competitive challenges. Breakout rooms are private so students can have some one-on-one help from the teacher. As a teacher, you can jump into rooms to see how everyone is doing, give clarification or … Read more
The main challenge schools, academies and multi academy trusts face when rolling out a new technology or platform is user adoption. Typically, a core group of tech-savvy teachers and staff embrace the new technology, while others are left behind. This results in various, separate solutions being used within the school, with learning resources scattered across … Read more
As a teacher it’s important to measure engagement of students that are home learning. Microsoft Teams has given us a quick and easy tool to enable us to do this. In this post we look at how to download an attendance report of an online lesson. Once the participants of your Teams meeting have left and before you exit the meeting window you can view and … 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
Missing Class Team? It may have been deleted, here is a guide on how to restore a deleted Team! A Team consists of an Office 365 groups, SharePoint site and a Microsoft Team. There are many ways to restore these deleted components but if you want to quickly restore the entire Team, follow the steps … Read more
During these difficult times, blended learning has been critical in providing students with uninterrupted learning. The blended learning approach can provide an effective way of reinforcing face-to-face learning with online resources and interaction. However, it can be difficult especially with students working remotely and it is a challenge for the school to identify students who … Read more
Before you start to use Teams in school, it is important to consider setting policies for safeguarding to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm. Each school must consider their own policies because one size does not fit all. For example, some schools might be comfortable with students direct messaging teachers for … 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
Book Your Place on our Free Training Sessions for SharePoint and Microsoft Teams Cloud Design Box Announced as Microsoft Global Training Partners We’re thrilled to announce that Cloud Design Box is a Microsoft Global Training Partner and CPD Certified. To celebrate, we are offering three, free workshops for schools and multi-academy trusts on using SharePoint … 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
In this podcast, we spoke with James Emmet, Network Manager at Engineering UTC North Lincolnshire about how they use features in Office 365 to support students with Special Education Needs (SEN) and English as an Additional Language (EAL). “We have a high number of students who are EAL, SEN, dyslexic and have low reading ages. … Read more
In light of the recent Covid-19 outbreak, we’ve put together a short article on the free resources we’ve been working hard to create and share with you. Like many businesses, we’re now operating fully remotely and still available to support our existing clients, as well as any other schools, multi-academy trusts and businesses who need … Read more
In this video and guide we show you the best way to start an online lesson in Microsoft Teams. Follow the tips below if you want to control presenters and have more control over the video conference. Tip 1 – Schedule your lesson Scheduling your lesson in the calendar rather than starting a meeting on … Read more
We have made a quick video guide for students and parents about using Microsoft Teams from home during this time of remote learning. We hope you find it useful!
So, you have school data sync setup and all of your class teams have been generated in Microsoft Teams. Teachers are eager to start using it for extending the classroom or remote learning. Teachers then realise that students can do things that they were not aware of and request for some rights to be restricted. … Read more
This is a quick update from Cloud Design Box. Due to the current situation of social distancing being implemented across the world, we have had a lot of schools rushing to setup Microsoft Teams. There are a number of ways you can setup Microsoft School Data Sync to create Class Teams from your MIS/SIS data: … Read more
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