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Branding SharePoint using Application Customizers
I’ve been a SharePoint designer now for over 10 years. By designer, I mean changing the look and feel of SharePoint. Not just adding simple themes, but making SharePoint, “not look like SharePoint”....
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SUGUK Leeds – Branding SharePoint using Application Customizers
Note: this is an updated blog post to include reference material and demos from the SUGUK meeting in Leeds on 5th September 2017. I’ve been a SharePoint designer now for over 10 years. By designer, I...
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Branding SharePoint using Application Customizers
Have you heard about the virtual Collab365 Global Conference 2017 that’s streaming online November 1st – 2nd? Join me and 120 other speakers from around the world who will be bringing you the very...
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Promoted Links Web Part for Modern Pages
This web part replicates the classic Promoted Links Web Part but with added features such as web part properties to change the background colour, size of background image and to select which promoted...
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Learning Tools in OneNote Class Notebook
OneNote Class Notebook is free for education users as part of Office 365, it has some additional functionality which isn’t available in standard OneNote files. In this blog post, I want to focus on the...
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How to create a custom theme in PowerApps (workaround)
PowerApps is a great tool at building complex business applications using logic and no code. Microsoft provide several themes out-of-the-box to give your app a consistent look and feel. There is no...
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Creating a quiz using Microsoft Forms in OneNote
Microsoft Forms are a great way to quickly gather survey results or produce quizzes. It could be testing employees on health and safety in OneNote or it could be setting students a topic quiz in Class...
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Bulk tagging in SharePoint Online
Tagging resources with metadata can provide a range of advantages when it comes to sorting, grouping and searching. You might decide to create a custom view to group items outside of any folder...
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Microsoft 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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Rubric 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...
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Microsoft 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...
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Microsoft 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...
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Sharing 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...
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ESPC: 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...
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Parental 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...
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Office 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...
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Office 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...
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Office 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...
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Creating 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...
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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...
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