Immersive Reader is built into many Microsoft apps and is brilliant for offering additional reading support to students. The tool offers many different features, including the ability to change font sizes and colours, read aloud passages and translate text into other languages, making it excellent for supporting SEND and EAL students inside and outside the … Read more
Microsoft 365 for Education has a number of excellent tools that can help support students who use English as an additional language (EAL). This quick guide gives you an overview of our three favourite tools you can use to break down language barriers in the classroom. Live translate conversations with Microsoft Translator. The Microsoft Translator … Read more
Scheduling assignments to automatically post to students at a later date allows teachers to plan ahead and save time. This quick guide shows you how to schedule your assignments in Microsoft Teams for Education in a few easy steps. Scheduling assignments for later. First, you need to create a new assignment in Teams. Head to … Read more
Microsoft Teams now lets you reuse old assignments for your current classes. This is excellent news as it not only helps teachers save time but also offers consistency with your assignments each year. Reusing assignments is really simple, and you can edit assignments and change them as much as you like to suit your current … 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 delighted to sponsor the Berkhamsted School IT Conference, which promises to be a vibrant, practical, live event centred around educational technology. Showcasing the school’s 1:1 digital device programme and their experience with the Microsoft Power Platform, the face-to-face event is a must-attend conference for any independent school. We’ve been invited … Read more
A OneNote Staff Notebook in Microsoft Teams is a digital notebook that helps teachers facilitate collaboration, save time and keep everything organised and in one place. At Cloud Design Box, we provision Staff Notebooks in Teams, automatically placing the right staff into their departments and subjects so they can always access their Staff Notebooks from … 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
Announcements in Microsoft Teams are great for highlighting content for a whole class or department. In this guide, we show you how to post an eye-catching announcement in your Teams channels, alongside some time-saving tips. How to post an announcement in Teams. You can create an eye-catching, customised announcement post with a coloured background in … Read more
Ian Stuart from Avantis Education talks about the power of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality in teaching and learning. Avantis has supported teachers with classroom technology for almost two decades and now boasts a diverse range of education products, including LearnPad, ClassCharge, ClassConnect and ClassVR. In this podcast episode, Cloud Design Box’s Darren Hemming … Read more
Setting a time limit or countdown for quizzes in Microsoft Forms is a great way to prepare students for exam conditions or set a quick, timed comprehension task during a lesson. In this guide, we show you how to set up a countdown timer for your next quiz. Quizzes in Forms are a great way … Read more
Cloud Design Box recently visited the Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire to get a deeper understanding of how Microsoft Teams and SharePoint are used by students, teachers and senior leadership teams in schools. The Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire is one of around 50 University Technical Colleges (UTCs) across the country, purposely built to prepare young people … Read more
Cloud Design Box is attending The ANME (Association of Network Managers in Education) North West Meeting on Thursday 24 November. We’re excited to head over to Bolton later this month to meet network managers who work in schools in the northwest region. Formed in 2014 by two school network managers, The ANME runs termly meetings … Read more
The new Microsoft Viva Connections Dashboard allows you to create adaptive cards that give users easy access to key information and quick actions in Teams and SharePoint. We’ve already spoken about the power of Microsoft Viva Connections in a previous blog. But, in short, the simple way of describing Viva Connections is “A SharePoint … Read more
Posting a document as news on SharePoint is a great way to share important information and resources with a large group of people. For example, you can share policies, handbooks, revision material, or any other useful information that your school, trust or organisation may need to be informed about. Here’s an example of staff handbook … Read more
The Director of Digital Learning at Lingfield College talks about the school’s plan to roll out 1:1 devices, and the challenges and benefits that come with digital transformation. Lingfield College is a co-educational independent school in Surrey for pupils aged two to eighteen. Stefan Hagen is the Director of Digital Learning and works with his … 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
Microsoft Teams Assignments uplifts static documents by introducing real-time feedback from tutors. Assignments is available in Class Teams and is a dynamic tool with useful features like calendar integration and point system tracking, as well as the ability to add verbal feedback for students. How to leave feedback on Microsoft Teams Assignments: Open Microsoft Teams … 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
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