Top Tip: Restarting Microsoft Teams

If the Microsoft Teams application is not working as expected, it is often worth giving it a full restart before reaching out for additional support. This can often resolve certain issues, such as messages, channels, Classwork, or the Turnitin tab not loading properly, or Teams freezing completely. Simply selecting the …

Learning Accelerators: Speaker Progress

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 …

Using Turnitin in Teams Assignments

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 …

Turnitin Update

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 …

Teams rollover update 25/26

Teams’ rollover will take place during CPD week, Wednesday 2nd to Friday 4th July. Unlike LearnZone, Teams will remain live and accessible during this time. This year’s update will bring three big changes: auto-archiving of Class Teams, a new way to create Teams, and Turnitin for summative assessment.  Archiving Class Teams All Teams sites used for teaching will automatically be …

Best Practice For Microsoft Teams

What is the Best Practice for Microsoft Teams? The Digital Learning Team has developed two models for the college’s online provision (see below) to ensure a clear, consistent learning journey for students. Curriculum teams have identified which of the two models they intend to use. This document outlines the content …

Flip in Microsoft Teams

After Microsoft shut down the Flip website they announced the features of the Flip camera would be integrated into Teams Assignments. This initially started out as teachers having access to the Flip camera to create video resources for Teams Assignments. Now the Flip camera has been fully rolled out so …

Teams Update for 24/25

What you need to do At the start of each academic year, teachers are responsible for managing their Microsoft Team sites. Staff should archive all of the Teams sites used for teaching in 2023/24 with the exception of courses continuing in 2024/25 that include the same students. This is to …

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