Good work is easy to miss in a busy organisation. Someone goes the extra mile for a colleague, solves a problem quietly, or supports a teammate through a difficult week, and it can pass without anyone else noticing. The new Praise Web Part gives organisations a simple, visible way to change that on their own … Read more

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Microsoft’s Reading Progress tool is great for language learning and improvement, giving teachers and students valuable insights on improving pronunciation and accuracy. See our guide on using Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams.  In this blog, we’re going to be taking a closer look at the Word Clouds that Microsoft Teams produce based on the words … Read more

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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

Add our helpful teaching and learning guides to your SharePoint site with the CDB Blog Posts Web Part Title Image.

In this guide, we show you how to add the Cloud Design Box Blog Posts Web Part to display our helpful guides and resources on your SharePoint sites.   The CDB Blog Posts Web Part automatically pulls in our latest blogs, guides, podcasts, videos and resources to your school or trust’s SharePoint site.  It would … Read more

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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

How to add an FAQ section to a SharePoint page title image

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

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We have launched a new SharePoint web part exclusive for Cloud Design Box customers called My Assignments, allowing students to see all their current and upcoming assignments from their SharePoint homepage.   Your school’s SharePoint homepage should give students a quick overview of what’s going on in the school community, and their classroom.   Popular features of a school intranet include the latest news, an announcement from the headteacher … Read more

How to share news on your SharePoint site

Keep everyone in your organisation in the loop with the news feature on SharePoint. Whether you’re using Microsoft 365 for business or education, this feature is a brilliant way to share important information, announcements and updates.  The best part is that it’s incredibly easy to set up, create and publish eye-catching content to your SharePoint … Read more

At Cloud Design Box, we have created a free Google search box SPFx web part. It’s a very simple web part to add a Google search box to a modern SharePoint page which then opens up the results in a new tab. Maybe a nice web part for an intranet homepage? You can download it … Read more

This web part replicates the classic Promoted Links Web Part but with added features such as web part properties to change the background colour, size of background image and to select which promoted link list to use. You can download it here. For more information on the full Cloud Design Box learning platform for modern … Read more

In this post, I wanted to show how you can modify the SharePoint framework Hello World web part and add other custom JavaScript libraries to create a simple slideshow. Prerequisites I’m going to start my tutorial after following these steps: Setup SharePoint Tenant Setup your machine HelloWorld WebPart HelloWorld, Talking to SharePoint Once that is … Read more

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