Adding Announcements in Microsoft Teams for Education
In this video, I explore the new announcement feature in Microsoft Teams. It’s part of a big education release this summer, we will keep you posted on the latest developments! .wrapperty...
View ArticleCreating Assignments using Class Notebook Pages
Class Notebook has a really nice feature which allows teachers to distribute pages to student sections so that they can work on their own copy of the page. Since we originally looked at this in a...
View ArticleOffice 365 User Adoption: Focus on a Long-Term Plan
You know how much Office 365 could transform your school or academy, but how do you convince the rest of the staff and student body? Getting everyone on board with a new concept or piece of software...
View ArticleOffice 365 User Adoption Series: Cornerstone Academy Trust
SharePoint, Class Notebook and Teams forms the foundation for curriculum delivery at The Cornerstone Academy Trust. Hearing stories about how other schools and academies are thriving with Office 365...
View ArticleOffice 365 User Adoption Series: Learning From Experience with Gareth Rose...
We understand that seamless user adoption of Office 365 and SharePoint can prove tricky, with many hurdles to jump before your whole organisation is fully on board. That’s why we’re creating a series...
View ArticleParental email digest in Microsoft Teams for Education
It’s the update that schools have been waiting for. Today Microsoft announced parental access to Microsoft Teams assignments through a regular email digest. This update enables the school to emphasise...
View ArticleESPC: SharePoint Team Sites and Microsoft Teams Working Together
The future role of SharePoint with the advent of Teams has been on my mind for over a year now. Teams is built on top of SharePoint but is an application rather than a website. Teams has chat and...
View ArticleSharing Options in SharePoint Online
Sharing a document via SharePoint has many advantages. Traditional ways of sharing a document (such as emailing) creates many problems such as having multiple versions, removing central governance, it...
View ArticleMicrosoft Teams for Education Released
Class teams are now available inside Microsoft Teams. These are created automatically using School Data Sync (SDS) or can be created manually in the Teams interface. Teams is a great collaboration...
View ArticleMicrosoft Teams for education replacing Microsoft Classroom Preview
Over the last few months, we have received lots of positive feedback about the new Microsoft Classroom Preview product. Today Microsoft announced in the Office 365 message centre that this would be...
View ArticleMicrosoft Classroom Webinar
I would like to thank everyone who took part in today’s webinar on Microsoft Classroom by Cloud Design Box. In the session, we covered: How to get Microsoft Classroom How to create a new class Using...
View ArticleChanging the default reply button in Outlook Web Access from “Reply all”
Your users may have noticed that the default reply button in Outlook Web Access is “Reply all”. This can result in emails accidentally being sent to the wrong person (as many users assume this is the...
View ArticleSaving Tweets to Excel using Microsoft Flow
Microsoft Flow is the new tool integrated with Office 365 which allows different services to interact. Such as social media providers like Twitter and Facebook or file sharing platforms like Dropbox,...
View ArticleHow to add custom branding to the Azure AD page
I’m often asked how to give the Microsoft Office 365 login page a branded and customised look and feel. It’s really easy so if you are using cloud only or AD synced users, you can apply branding to...
View ArticleHow to bypass username entry with ADFS (true single sign-on)
Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) allows your school/organisation to use your own Active Directory to authenticate users. While Azure AD Connect (formerly DirSync) seems to give this...
View ArticleIntegrating Google Calendar Data with SharePoint using Microsoft Flow
It can be time consuming to update multiple calendars. You can now setup custom flows using Microsoft Flow to copy and edit data between the two calendars. In the example below, I create a Microsoft...
View ArticleCreating a simple Microsoft Flow for a SharePoint list
For anyone using the new style SharePoint lists, there is now a new action for Microsoft Flow integration. It’s a really cool product that integrates all the Office 365 products (and more) into your...
View ArticleCreating a picture library slideshow using jQuery Cycle2 and the SharePoint...
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...
View ArticleRubric Grading Criteria in Microsoft Teams Assignments
Rubrics are a powerful tool used to assess students’ work. The criterion helps students to have a concrete understanding and visualisation of what they need to do to achieve a particular score. Each...
View ArticleMicrosoft Teams for Education Summer 2018 Update
There’s a real buzz around Microsoft Teams. Microsoft have been increasing the momentum by releasing updates to improve the class collaboration tool recently. In this post I’m going to look at some of...
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