Cloud Design Box are attending this autumn’s MAT Growth Conference, hosted by The Multi Academy Trust Association (MATA). The one-day conference focuses on “leadership for growth” and features a variety of keynote sessions and workshops focusing on: Growing into a sustainable trust Improving the onboarding process for schools Understanding the latest in Ofsted’s role for … Read more
We’re thrilled to have been able to attend the 2023 MAT Digital Acceleration Programme, hosted by Microsoft at the stunning Microsoft Experience Centre in Oxford Circus. Aimed at multi academy trusts (MATs) in the UK, the event centred around the challenges and successes of digital transformation in education. “A highlight of the event … Read more
Cloud Design Box is attending Bett 2023 – which returns to the ExCeL London from 29 – 31 March, bringing together educators from across the world. Expected to welcome over 30,000 attendees and 600 EdTech providers, Bett is the world’s leading EdTech exhibition, showcasing all the latest cutting-edge education products and services. You can find … Read more
Cloud Design Box is sponsoring ArborFest 2023, which brings together over 400 schools and MATs in what is predicted to be Arbor’s biggest in-person conference. Exploring the theme of “Transforming the way schools work”, the one-day event is full of inspiring talks from experts within the education sector and representatives from schools who use … Read more
Cloud Design Box is exhibiting at The Education People Show – Kent’s leading event for the promotion and development of effective school leadership, management, learning and teaching. Come down and see us on Stand 415 where Joanne, our Customer Success Manager, and Steve, our Support Case Manager will be on hand to demonstrate how … Read more
Cloud Design Box is attending the Schools and Academies Show and EdTech Summit at the Birmingham NEC on Thursday 17 November 2022. The Schools and Academies Show and EdTech Summit have teamed up to create an amazing, free co-located event, filled with CPD-accredited content, learning and networking with over 3,000 education leaders. Cloud Design Box … Read more
Creating a visually appealing yet functional homepage for your school or trust is challenging. It isn’t easy to strike the right balance between including all the information, links and announcements and making it look engaging and fresh for staff and students. What’s more, creating and maintaining SharePoint sites can be time-consuming. You want to make … Read more
Class Teams Homepages have arrived – allowing teachers and educators to create an engaging central hub for their classes within a few quick clicks. In this blog, we’ve rounded up our best ideas for what to include in your Class Teams Homepage. Not sure how to get started with Class Teams Homepages? We cover how … Read more
The new homepage feature in Microsoft Class Teams allows you to create homepages within Microsoft Teams for each class, filled with the latest announcements, pinned class resources, upcoming assignments, recently edited class files and much, much more. The good news is that this doesn’t take much time to set up – it’s mostly automatically generated … Read more
Cloud Design Box is hosting two free webinars for schools and multi academy trusts as part of a Microsoft 365 summer training series. The virtual sessions take place in August and are completely free for teachers and senior leadership teams to attend. CDB Trainer Keith (right) and the rest of the CDB Team at … Read more
The ability to hand in work on behalf of students in Microsoft Teams Assignments has been long-awaited by teachers, alongside being able to view assignment history of individual students. In this guide, we show you how to view assignment history and submit student work as a teacher in Teams Assignments. How to view assignment history … Read more
When working in Microsoft Teams, each Class Team that you’re a member of contains a tab where important subject resources can be viewed. Access a resource library for your class by selecting the tab at the top of your Class Team. In this example, it’s a Year 11 English student accessing their Year 11 English … Read more
In this podcast episode, we speak with Jonathan Bishop, the CEO and Executive Headteacher of The Cornerstone Academy Trust (TCAT), about getting the best value from Microsoft 365 for Education. TCAT is based in the southeast of England and comprises four primary schools. Their motto “Fortune Favours the Brave” is undoubtedly reflected in their forward-thinking approach … Read more
The late turn in notification in Microsoft Teams Assignments allows you to be alerted if a student hands in their homework late. The notification appears in the bottom corner of your screen, as well as the activity bell in the top-left of your Microsoft Teams. This can be activated per assignment, or for all assignments … Read more
The new Parent Connection app in Microsoft Teams allows teachers to directly communicate with students’ parents/guardians via the chat function. Here’s how to get started with messaging parents/guardians via Teams. Firstly, the Parent Connection app must be enabled by an IT admin. Here’s how to set up the Parent Connection app in Microsoft Teams. When … Read more
Microsoft Teams has launched a new parent connection tool, allowing teachers and parents to directly communicate via the chat function. In this guide, we show you how to enable the connection app using data provisioned by School Data Sync. There are a few requirements that are essential for setting up the Parent Connection app in … Read more
In this guide, we show you how to add the Cloud Design Box exclusive My Events web part to your SharePoint sites. The My Events web part gives you a quick glance at your upcoming events by showing your calendar events from Outlook. It would sit perfectly on a home page so users … Read more
In this guide, we show you how to add the Cloud Design Box Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Web Part to your SharePoint sites. The FAQ web part is an extremely versatile addition to any SharePoint site and can be customised to create an interactive FAQs section to help give quick guidance to your users. … Read more
In this podcast episode, we spoke with Martin Edworthy, eLearning Coordinator at Sacred Heart Catholic High School about how they moved from their school’s Microsoft 365 tenant to a centralised tenancy for their trust (The Bishop Bewick Catholic Education Trust). “Working between two tenancies was becoming unnecessarily complex as our members of staff needed multiple … Read more
In this podcast episode, we spoke to Microsoft specialist and TweetMeet lead Marjolein Hoekstra about her journey with Microsoft, TweetMeets, MVPs, MSEduCentral and much more. She reveals three must-have resources designed especially for educators and school leaders. Marjolein first became connected with Microsoft after diving deep into OneNote and designing an example of what features … Read more
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