Weighted grading categories in Microsoft Teams Assignments provide your students with an overall percentage grade based on the different weightings and different assignments that you can set. For example, you can set up homework as making up 20% of a student’s grade, quizzes as 30% and in-class assignments at 50%. Did you know that … Read more
Formative’s Ryan Clark discusses the power of real-time assessments in the classroom and how this data empowers teachers to recognise learning opportunities at an earlier stage while giving students agency in their own development. Ryan Clark joins Darren Hemming on the Cloud Design Box podcast to talk about this new approach to teaching and … Read more
Cloud Design Box has partnered with Easy4u, a scheme provided by Class Technology Solutions to provide accessible, affordable digital education for everyone. Through working with many schools, MATs and colleges that have adopted a 1:1 device scheme, we’ve seen first-hand the benefits of placing a laptop or tablet in the hands of every student. However, … Read more
In this guide, we show you how you can save attachments from an email directly out of Outlook into SharePoint. We’ve all wasted a lot of time scouring our inboxes, hunting for files in email threads. Get into a good habit of saving your important emails and their attachments in SharePoint so you can … 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
The Call To Action SharePoint Web Part is a Cloud Design Box exclusive feature that allows you to quickly create professional-looking and eye-catching call to actions on your SharePoint sites. This guide shows you how to add a Call To Action to your SharePoint sites. How to add a Call To Action Web part … Read more
For schools and MATS unable to attend this year’s Bett show, we’re giving people the opportunity to meet with us virtually in March. Bett is one of the key events in the EdTech calendar – bringing tens of thousands of educators to London’s ExCeL Exhibition Centre each year. However, we know not everyone can … 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
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
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
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
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