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Microsoft Stream is not just a place to store videos. Now it’s also a place to create videos! Welcome to Day 118 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365– Create Videos in Stream. What is Microsoft Stream? Microsoft Stream is a video platform for your organization. It’s like your school district having its own walled garden version of YouTube, but with additional features built in, and integration with other tools like Teams and Forms. Besides uploading videos you make elsewhere, like the Slide Recorder and the Screen Recorder in PowerPoint, you can create videos right within Stream to share directly with your students without needing toRead More →

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One of the central functions is Microsoft Teams is to harness all of the functions of everything else in the Microsoft universe and bring them into one place where they can app-smash their little hearts out. There’s something magical about they exponential increase in functionality when all the tools come from the same developer, as opposed to trying to get extensions and add-ons from third-party apps to play well together. This is certainly true about Streams in Teams. Stream is a video sharing platform for organizations like school districts. Streams do more than house videos for sharing, although that is certainly the primary function. ItRead More →

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Day 107 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365 is all about app-smashing to make links to websites clickable in your Stream-hosted videos, thanks to Microsoft Forms integration. This started when I read a comment on Twitter about how nice it is that you can save PowerPoint recordings in Stream for distribution to students. However, it would be nice if the links to websites in the original PowerPoint were still clickable. Of course links inside of videos are NOT clickable, but here you will find a workaround. Uses for links IN videos Let’s consider how this is useful, then get into the “How to”. There areRead More →