Digital safeguarding is just as crucial as physical safety. Without a solid strategy, your student data, staff security and operations could be at serious risk.
Safeguarding
Muting students in Microsoft Class Teams is useful if you’ve got a student making inappropriate comments or distracting the class. In this guide, we show you how to manage student comments, mute individual students and mute the entire class in Microsoft Teams. There are a few reasons why teachers may wish to delete student … Read more
As a school, MAT or college teacher, safeguarding your students from bullying and harassment is a top priority. As students spend more time online – both for education and during their leisure time – it’s more important than ever to have the tools in place to make sure they’re safe. In this free webinar, Cloud … 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
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
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
Cloud Design Box is partnering with Senso Cloud to deliver a free live workshop on Safeguarding in Microsoft Class Teams. Sign-up for free here. Senso Cloud provides real-time monitoring of Teams chat using AI and we are working with them to help our customers safeguard online learning in Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. With the rapid … Read more
Breakout rooms in Microsoft Class Teams launched in January 2021, allowing teachers to create sub-meetings within the main class meeting for students to work together in small groups and discuss their learning. In this discussion, we’ve included everything you need to know about breakout rooms in Teams, from how to set them up to safeguarding … 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
