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 …
Empowering students for a digital future On Tuesday, 10th February 2026, educators, organisations, and young people across the UK and beyond will come together to mark Safer Internet Day (SID), a global event dedicated to promoting safer, more responsible, and more positive use of digital technology. Safer Internet Day is …
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 …
Welcome In this issue, we share news, top tips and resources, coaching, and the “fun stuff” we are doing to help improve your Digital Teaching, Learning, and Assessment practice. For a full list of our approved platforms and technologies, visit our dedicated blog page. News Edpuzzle training day We’re excited …
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 …
Happy New Year! Welcome back! We hope you had a great break and are feeling refreshed and ready for the new term! In this issue, we share news, top tips, resources, and online CPD to help improve your Digital Teaching, Learning, and Assessment practice. News New: 1-to-1 Digital Learning Coaching …
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 …
Welcome In this Christmas edition, Santa shares a fun quiz for you and your students. There’s some tinsel talk, Tiny Tim’s top tips and reindeer resources, and the reveal of our mystery 3D print – all to help improve your Digital Teaching, Learning, and Assessment practice. Santa’s on his Way(ground) …
The new Discover Pathway is now available for all curriculum staff. Building on the Digital Essentials, this structured programme serves as a foundation for new colleagues and offers valuable development opportunities for existing staff seeking to enhance their digital literacy and pedagogical practice. A key component of the programme is …
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 …
