In today’s hybrid workplace, keeping your calendar up to date is essential. Clear communication about when and where you’re working is more important than ever. Outlook Calendar has some great features that make scheduling meetings simpler, prevent meeting clashes, and help colleagues understand your availability at a glance. Work Hours …
Did you know you can grant students extensions on Turnitin assignments? There are many situations where a student might need extra time – personal circumstances, accessibility or reasonable adjustments, or even unexpected technical issues. Turnitin’s Grant Extension feature makes this easy. It lets you give individual students additional time to …
Public speaking is a vital skill for every student, whether they’re preparing for workplace presentations, apprenticeships, interviews, or confidence‑building in the classroom. Speaker Progress, one of Microsoft’s Learning Accelerators, is built to help educators create structured speaking assignments, track progress over time, and give students meaningful, personalised feedback on their …
Recording your PowerPoint presentation is a great way to create engaging learning resources for students. Whether you’re preparing asynchronous lessons, flipped classroom content, or revision materials, PowerPoint has built-in recording tools that make it easy to record, annotate, preview, and export a video of your presentation. A step-by-step guide to …
You can now add one of Turnitin’s main features, the Similarity Report, to your Microsoft Teams Assignments. You can use it to detect potential plagiarism in your students’ works. This can only be used for formative assessment and is different from creating full Turnitin assignments in Teams, which must be …
If you are hosting an online event with externals, for example an applicant event, you must follow the process below, outlining how you set up and conduct the meeting: Meeting checklist If you are presenting and sharing your screen during the meeting, make sure to: Setting up a Town Hall …
Have you considered using a Podcast for assessment? Well, Canva has just made it even easier for you to make the leap. Canva have just launched the “Podcast in your pocket resource“ With Canva for Education, students can now design and produce their own podcasts with ease. This hands-on approach …
Turnitin is now available on Teams, with a new updated interface. As a result, the process you are used to for creating and sharing assignments has changed. But don’t worry – we’ll guide you through each step! You can find our full Turnitin course on StaffZone. Turnitin on Teams Turnitin …
Turnitin has updated both its interface and the way it integrates with LearnZone. As a result, the process for creating assignments has changed. But don’t worry – we’ll guide you through each step! You can find our full Turnitin tutorial on StaffZone. Turnitin on LearnZone Alongside a cleaner, more streamlined …
Turnitin is finally coming to Microsoft Teams! Furthermore, Turnitin has updated its interface and features in LearnZone. These updates will become available on both Teams and LearnZone as part of rollover during CPD week, Wednesday 2nd to Friday 4th July. Because of these changes, we urge all staff NOT to …
