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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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Creating 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...
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Creating 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...
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Integrating 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...
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How 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...
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How 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...
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Saving 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,...
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Changing 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...
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Microsoft 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...
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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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