Cloud Design Box is hosting five free virtual events in December and January, especially designed for teachers to help them make the most of Microsoft Teams and deliver outstanding learning to their students. As Microsoft Global Education Training Partners with CPD-certified courses, we’re delighted to be partnering with two leading technology providers, who specialise in … Read more
As a teacher it’s important to measure engagement of students that are home learning. Microsoft Teams has given us a quick and easy tool to enable us to do this. In this post we look at how to download an attendance report of an online lesson. Once the participants of your Teams meeting have left and before you exit the meeting window you can view and … Read more
During these difficult times, blended learning has been critical in providing students with uninterrupted learning. The blended learning approach can provide an effective way of reinforcing face-to-face learning with online resources and interaction. However, it can be difficult especially with students working remotely and it is a challenge for the school to identify students who … 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
Are you new to Teams or not quite sure about the right places to do things? We have created a simple overview below for some of your key educator actions! 1. Posts Have group discussions, video calls and praise students. Great for communicating with your class. 2. Files Individual student work folders for any work … Read more
Book Your Place on our Free Training Sessions for SharePoint and Microsoft Teams Cloud Design Box Announced as Microsoft Global Training Partners We’re thrilled to announce that Cloud Design Box is a Microsoft Global Training Partner and CPD Certified. To celebrate, we are offering three, free workshops for schools and multi-academy trusts on using SharePoint … Read more
In this video guide, we take you through adding the insights tab to Class Teams and how to use it to track student usage, assessment trends, digital activity and much more. You can find out more information on Cloud Design Box and how we can help your school get the most out of Microsoft Teams … Read more
In this podcast, we spoke with James Emmet, Network Manager at Engineering UTC North Lincolnshire about how they use features in Office 365 to support students with Special Education Needs (SEN) and English as an Additional Language (EAL). “We have a high number of students who are EAL, SEN, dyslexic and have low reading ages. … Read more
In this video and guide we show you the best way to start an online lesson in Microsoft Teams. Follow the tips below if you want to control presenters and have more control over the video conference. Tip 1 – Schedule your lesson Scheduling your lesson in the calendar rather than starting a meeting on … 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!
So, you have school data sync setup and all of your class teams have been generated in Microsoft Teams. Teachers are eager to start using it for extending the classroom or remote learning. Teachers then realise that students can do things that they were not aware of and request for some rights to be restricted. … Read more
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
All Class Teams provisioned by Microsoft School Data Sync are now deactivated for students. This means the students can only access the team once the teacher has pressed the activate button. Monitored Conversations One huge benefit is that students cannot have conversations in the team until it becomes activated. When hundreds of teams are created … 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
Microsoft Teams has had a makeover with some new UI and feature changes this summer. In the video below, we go through these changes and what it means for teachers and students using Teams in the classroom. Tiles A new tiled interface helps you to visualise your classes in a more friendly view. Don’t worry … Read more
Lots of new and exciting features are coming to Microsoft Teams this summer, so get ready for the new academic year in advance and resolve any issues before the students are back. I’m beginning the process of rolling over the academic year at many schools this month using Microsoft School Data Sync with the Cloud … 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!
Read more about how to setup and use rubrics in Microsoft Teams in our previous post. There are options available in Microsoft Teams to export and import Rubric grading criteria. This is great news for educators, it will empower them to share rubrics with their department, school, trust or the rest of the world! Exporting … Read more
Class Notebook has a really nice feature which allows teachers to distribute pages to student sections so that they can work on their own copy of the page. Since we originally looked at this in a previous blog post, Microsoft Teams now supports setting assignments using Class Notebook pages too. Essentially there are two ways … Read more
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
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