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So far we have checked out how staff can use Microsoft Planner collaboratively and how students can use Planner individually, so today, Day 72 of 365 Ideas for Office 365, it makes sense to show how students can use Planner collaboratively. To see how to get students into Planner, see my previous article on students using Planner.  The steps are mostly the same whether students are working on a long-term research project individually or if they are working on a group project. Microsoft Planner for Individual Projects For simply a long-term project, the student should create a new plan in Microsoft Planner just for thatRead More →

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Planner is a project management app that is part of Office 365.  That means it is integrated in other Office 365 like Outlook and Microsoft Teams. Welcome to Day 71 of 365 Ideas for Office 365- Using Planner with students.  Last time we explored ways that staff can utilize Planner for projects that require collaboration and assigning tasks. Students can use Planner in an entirely different way, as more of a to-do list with lots of extra features.  To start using Planer with students first show them where to find it. Finding Planner As with all Office 365 apps, they can start in OneDrive andRead More →

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Yesterday we introduced Stream, but only so we could continue the series on Microsoft Forms, because you can add Microsoft Forms inside a video on Microsoft Stream to make them interactive!  Welcome to Day 69 of 365 Ideas for Office 365- Forms in Stream.  Microsoft Office and Office 365 have a vast array of tools that work great as standalones, but they integrate really powerfully as well.  The Streams and Forms integration is a terrific example of #BetterTogether. When you are inside of Stream looking at one of your own videos, to the right of the video is a field that has two tabs- transcriptRead More →

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Many school districts have policies that make it a tricky prospect to try to include watching a video on YouTube as part of a lesson plan.  If you (or someone in your school or district) create your own videos you need somewhere to “host” them.  If your students create video projects they, too, need a place to share them, either with teachers, or peers, or both.  Microsoft Stream can be that place.  Welcome to Day 68 of 365 Ideas for Office 365. What is Stream? Stream is an example of a “walled garden”.  Only people inside your district can see the videos posted there.  YouRead More →

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Sections are one of the question types in Microsoft Forms, only there is no question.  It is unquestionably one of the best new features in Forms, and is it destined to (very soon) get a whole lot more useful.  Welcome to Day 67 of 365 Ideas for Office 365. Start by adding a section.  In the description box, paste in text that students will use to answer the questions in that section. Then add the questions related to that text. When it is time to move on to another reading selection, simply create another section and paste that reading into the description field. Add theRead More →