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
Using Presenter Mode in a Microsoft Class Teams meeting gives teachers more control over their lesson. They have access to their presenter notes and all the usual Class Teams tools, plus additional presenter options. Presenter Mode is only available in the desktop application of Teams. In this quick guide, we show you how to use … Read more
The chat feature in Microsoft Teams is a useful tool that allows students to communicate with their teachers and peers during online lessons. However, there may be times where the chat feature isn’t necessary and is causing distractions during lesson time. Similar to the mute feature on Teams, this can easily be controlled and turned … 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
In this guide, we discuss how we can prevent unwelcome guests from joining our online lessons in Microsoft Teams. Enable lobby for all Class Teams meetings in your school. Making sure the meeting policy for teachers within this school’s tenancy is set so that the lobby is enabled. Firstly, make sure your meeting policy for … 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
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!
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
We’ve been asked by some schools facing part and full closure to create a podcast about delivering virtual lessons using Microsoft Teams. In this podcast, we focus on using Microsoft Teams to provide remote lessons. Darren Hemming, our Teaching and Learning Consultant, explains how these tools allow some continuation of learning, even if teachers or … Read more
Guest post by Courtney Farrow with video by Tony Phillips With 98% of classrooms now using computers, laptops and tablets, it’s safe to say that digital learning is here to stay. However, many teachers still find themselves chained to their desktop computers, whiteboards and paper notebooks, unable to invest time and energy into making lessons … Read more
In our Office 365 User Adoption Podcast this month, Tony and Darren from Cloud Design Box talk about the benefits of tagging resources and discuss metadata vs folders. Why should we tag? SharePoint search is great out-of-the-box. It’s intelligent and searches not just the title of the document but also inside the contents. As people … Read more
In this video, I explore the new announcement feature in Microsoft Teams. It’s part of a big education release this summer, we will keep you posted on the latest developments!
You know how much Office 365 could transform your school or academy, but how do you convince the rest of the staff and student body? Getting everyone on board with a new concept or piece of software is a challenge for all organisations, but by sharing experiences, we can learn from others who have been … Read more
We understand that seamless user adoption of Office 365 and SharePoint can prove tricky, with many hurdles to jump before your whole organisation is fully on board. That’s why we’re creating a series of podcasts focusing on real-life user adoption stories, with schools, academies and businesses just like yours. The second episode features Tony Phillips, … Read more
Microsoft Forms quizzes can now be assigned to students in Microsoft Teams for education. These are auto-marked and the results are fed automatically into the teachers markbook. Find out how to use this new functionality in the video below. You can find out more about how we can integrate Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Class Notebook … Read more
Class teams are now available inside Microsoft Teams. These are created automatically using School Data Sync (SDS) or can be created manually in the Teams interface. Teams is a great collaboration interface that pulls together instant messaging, videos calls, SharePoint, OneNote and assignments into one place. It can also be extended with custom tabs. I’ve … Read more
Over the last few months, we have received lots of positive feedback about the new Microsoft Classroom Preview product. Today Microsoft announced in the Office 365 message centre that this would be replaced at the end of July 2017 with Microsoft Teams for Education. No need to panic, MS Classroom functionality will still exist but … Read more
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