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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 →

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Yesterday we looked at the two traditional ways of inserting a file into OneNote, including just adding a link to open the file in the original program (Insert File). The other method is Insert Printout. This also places a link to the original file. In addition, it adds a link to open the file as a PDF. As the name suggests, it also prints out a PDF copy of the entire file on the page in the OneNote Notebook. Today we will check out a new and entirely different option, the “first option” that we skipped over in yesterday’s article. Welcome to Day 106 ofRead More →

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OneNote is often described as a digital binder system. I often say that I used to describe OneNote not as a place to create, but a place to store and organize what you create in other places. There are so many creation tools in OneNote that I can no longer say that, but that doesn’t change the fact that OneNote still does an awesome job at storing and organizing (and sharing) content. There are two tabs for inserting content of a document, spreadsheet or presentation onto a page in OneNote.  You can simply add a link to the File, like you could in a WordRead More →

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Last time we wrote about using Dictation and Audio Recording in OneNote, including how they can be used to give students efficient, effective and accessible feedback.  Today, Day 104 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365, we will discuss other options OneNote provides for giving feedback to students.  Flexibility OneNote gives you many options for how you communicate feedback to your students. This gives teachers flexibility but also allows them to choose the best method for the student and for the assignment.  Consider using different methods to match the needs of diverse students.  For the student, there is no difference if the teacher types feedback orRead More →

Screenshot of Microsoft Office Dictation button in OneNote app for Windows 10

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I’m doing a little series on giving timely feedback to students during remote learning, with a focus on OneNote, Forms and Teams.  So Day 103 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365 will show you how to use the dictation and audio notes features of OneNote. A Brief History of OneNote OneNote was originally designed to be a digital binder.  Rather than being a place to create content, it was a place to collect, organize and store things you made elsewhere.  OneNote has grown into so much more; I write all my articles and even my book in OneNote.  Nevertheless, that is it’s legacy.  OneNote (alongRead More →

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I’m breaking from my typical tutorial style posts to talk about Remote Learning with Microsoft Teams, something I’ve created a lot of training materials for recently.  So Day 100 of 365 Ideas for Office 365 is a persuasive essay about using Microsoft Teams for Remote Learning!  Well, not really, because I don’t have the proper introduction, conclusion, one paragraph about each point, counterargument, rebuttal, and all that. Teams vs Slack & Zoom & Google Classroom & Evernote You can read about Teams vs. Slack in the business world, Teams vs. Zoom for videoconferencing, and Teams vs. Google Classroom in education, but right there is theRead More →

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In the last article I showed you simply where to find Teams in Office365 and how to create one.  That did not include adding any students, or files, or your Google Drive (no, that’s not a typo) , so we will do that today, on Day 99 of 365 Ideas for Office 365. Adding Students One of the last steps in creating a team lets you add a co-teacher and students.  You can add students manually by looking them up by last name or student ID number, or skip this for now and let them join by giving them a code.  If you choose toRead More →

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I’ve been putting off writing about Microsoft Teams partly because there’s so much there, I didn’t know where to start.  (I’ve decided to start at the beginning!)  I also wanted to build up to it.  Essentially, everything else I’ve written about in Office 365 is in Teams, so technically I’ve always been writing about Teams.  But today, it’s official.  I wish I could have held out two posts longer, but #RemoteLearning can’t wait any longer, thanks to #Covid-19.  So, welcome to Day 98 of 365 Ideas for Office 365– Introduction to Microsoft Teams, on a Chromebook. Microsoft Teams is pretty much the same in theRead More →

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A few months ago, Microsoft added a new question type in Microsoft Forms.  It is the File Upload.  This enables you to ask respondents to upload files like screenshots, PowerPoints, Word documents or even audio or video recordings as their response.  Welcome to Day 97 of 365 Ideas for Office 365– file upload in Forms. Google, I mean Microsoft Forms I’ll go ahead and start with “It’s about time”.  Google Forms had this feature a couple years before Microsoft figured this one out.  It used to be when I’d have a conversation about the two platforms, we’d all agree Google Forms had so many moreRead More →