Microsoft has been extremely busy updating its products and apps, in this blog we break down the essentials in easy bite-size chunks. Let’s dive straight in and find out more about the Office 365 rebrand, Teams additions and Stream updates. Say hello to Microsoft 365 Microsoft is currently rolling out …
Reflect is a check-in app built into Teams that can be used to supplement the pastoral elements of your teaching practice either as general questions about how your learners are feeling or as a way of gauging how they feel about the topics you are covering, the pace and content …
In this is our final core principals blog post, we will outline what you should be doing to apply our seven digital core principles to your Teams sites. For more details and training our Discover pathway on StaffZone: Core Skills: Teams details exactly how you can apply the seven digital …
In this is the first of three blog posts we will outline our seven digital core principles that should be used as a guide to underpin your digital teaching practice. In our two following posts, we will identify how you can effectively apply them to the college’s two main platforms …
Introduction At the start of each academic year, lecturers are responsible for managing their Microsoft Team sites. Staff should archive all of the Teams sites used for teaching in 2021/22 with the exception of courses continuing in 2022/23 that include the same students. This is to ensure that students are …
Microsoft Teams has introduced a new feature to Class teams pages called Home Page. The Class Home Page serves as a dashboard where students can find important class information including links to resources, highlighted documents, engaging content and more; all of which can be edited and arranged to suit your class. …
Microsoft has added 8 fantastic new features to give you, even more, control over your Teams Whiteboards. The new features include: Aggregated reactions Drag/drop image to Whiteboard from Desktop Locking any object to the canvas Zoom control improvements Saved pen settings between Whiteboards Add photos whiteboards on mobile devices Enhance …
With the abundance of Teams sites across the organisation it can sometimes be difficult for you and your students to find the Team/s you are looking for. We have therefore created a quick guide for best practice when creating, naming categorising and structuring Teams sites. Creating Teams To create a …
Chats, especially with more than one other person conversation, can often move on quickly, and sometimes the opportunity to reply directly to a message has passed and your reply can become out of context. AAAAAAArgh frustrating! Well don’t worry with the NEW Reply feature you can include the original message …
The immersive classrooms are equipped with speakers, a standard webcam and microphone mounted on the projector, and a motorised camera controlled via a remote. As part of an online Teams lesson these can be used alongside other online activities and tools to engage learners at home and in-class activities such …
