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Microsoft Bookings for Office Hours and Conferences

2021-01-15
By: dadxeight
On: January 15, 2021
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Microsoft Tools, Remote Learning
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Microsoft Bookings is an app in Office 365 that was designed for scheduling appointment for businesses and sales people, but it has some interesting applications for education in general and classrooms in particular. Day 119 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft is the Bookings app. What is Bookings for, anyway? The idea for this post started when a colleague sent me an email yesterday. “A few months ago you demoed a way for teachers to book time with you (or us depending on the situation). Do you have some time tomorrow to walk me through how to set that up for myself? I need to meetRead More →

Record Screen and Webcam in Microsoft Stream

2020-12-14
By: dadxeight
On: December 14, 2020
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Differentiation/UDL, Instructional Websites, Microsoft Tools, Minecraft, Remote Learning, Stream
With: 0 Comments

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 →

Organizing Your Class Team to Improve Engagement

2020-12-10
By: dadxeight
On: December 10, 2020
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Microsoft Tools, Remote Learning, Teams
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Organizing Your Class Team in Microsoft Teams is based first on how you use channels, and then how you use the tabs within each channel. Today, on Day 117 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365, we’ll help you get your Class Team organized. Microsoft Teams uses Channels for organization. I use Standard Channels to organize Content, and Private Channels to organize people. Standard Channels Elementary teachers that might teach all content areas might want a channel for English Language Arts, a channel for Math, a channel for Science and a channel for Social Studies. Middle and High School Teachers might prefer to have a newRead More →

Customize Your Microsoft Teams Assignment with Robust Options

2020-11-03
By: dadxeight
On: November 3, 2020
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Microsoft Tools, Remote Learning, Teams
With: 0 Comments

There are so many features for an Assignment in Microsoft Teams that it takes two articles to cover them all. Welcome to Day 115 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365– Teams assignments, Part II. Save/Assign Since we left off part way through showing all the features of assignments in Microsoft Teams, it makes sense to pick up with the Save Draft/Assign Now options. When you are creating an assignment, you have three options in the top right corner- Discard, Save and Assign. You can always Discard or save your progress as a draft at any point. Assign becomes available after you have added certain minimumRead More →

Create Assignments in Microsoft Teams

2020-10-14
By: dadxeight
On: October 14, 2020
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Microsoft Tools, Remote Learning, Teams
With: 0 Comments

Assignments are one of the features that sets Class Teams apart from other types of Teams in Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams was designed for remote work and remote learning, so it is ideally suited for today’s educational landscape, not retrofitted to work for remote learning like most other platforms. Day 114 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365 will highlight Assignments in Teams. Assignments Tab There are a couple places you can create an assignment. I’m going to use the Assignments tab. Under the Assignments tab you can see assignments divided into drafts, assigned and returned. You can also select the “Create” button to start aRead More →

Collections in Microsoft Edge

2020-09-01
By: dadxeight
On: September 1, 2020
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Microsoft Tools, Remote Learning
With: 0 Comments

Collections in Microsoft Edge is an incredibly useful and resourceful tool for students, teachers and, well, people. Welcome to Day 113 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365. Like Google Chrome, you can log into the Microsoft Edge browser, and there are some really nice benefits to doing so. Your bookmarks and extensions travel from one device to another with you when you log in. I wrote last month about some of the best of Google Chrome features that are in Edge as well as some of the only in Edge features like the Immersive Reader accessibility tools. But Collections deserve an article of their own.Read More →

Types of Teams- Class, Staff, PLC, Other

2020-07-28
By: dadxeight
On: July 28, 2020
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Teams
With: 2 Comments

Types of Teams are determined by the purpose of the Team. I have taught Teams and I’ve created a course on Teams but I’ve never done much with Microsoft Teams, the hero of remote learning, remote teaching and remote work, here on this site. I’m currently working on a project in Teams outside of the world of education, so I am aware there are some differences between the business and education editions of Teams.  However, this site is dedicated to educational technology, so on this long-delayed Day 112 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365, we will look at the four types of Teams available inRead More →

Microsoft Edge (Edgium?😆)

2020-06-03
By: dadxeight
On: June 3, 2020
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Differentiation/UDL, Instructional Websites, Microsoft Tools, Remote Learning
With: 1 Comment

I’ve recently switched almost completely from Google Chrome to the Chrome-based Microsoft Edge browser. I’ll share with you why on today, the eleventy-first edition of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365. Others have written about the significance for the web overall and its ongoing evolution with Microsoft abandoning a competitive platform and choosing instead to cooperate with Google. I’m going to focus on features. Accessibility The first thing that drew me back to Microsoft in general after I had fully embraced Google Classroom and all that goes with it, was Immersive Reader. I soon learned IR was not an anomaly, just the crown jewel of Microsoft’sRead More →

PowerPoint Live!

2020-05-22
By: dadxeight
On: May 22, 2020
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Differentiation/UDL, Microsoft Tools, PowerPoint, PowerPoint, Remote Learning
With: 0 Comments

PowerPoint is currently rolling out the new Live feature, which includes several capabilities that are even more valuable during these days of remote learning. I am excited that Day 110 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365 is about PowerPoint Live. This is a web-based function so you will only find it in the online version of PowerPoint. You will find it under the Slide Show tab in the ribbon, alongside other recent new features in PowerPoint, Subtitles and Rehearse with Coach. Going Live On the presenter’s side of things, it is called, “Present Live”. As you will see, the audience view is called PowerPoint Live.Read More →

Custom Backgrounds for Microsoft Teams Meetings

2020-05-21
By: dadxeight
On: May 21, 2020
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Microsoft Tools, Teams
With: 0 Comments

Day 109 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365 is mostly for fun, but also adds an element of privacy. Teams now has almost 2 dozen backgrounds you can use for Teams Meetings, in addition to the blur background they added a few weeks earlier. But you can add your own images as well. First, let’s make sure you know how to choose a background during a meeting. Adding background effects during a meeting This is just like having a green screen, except you don’t need an actual green screen, and it’s automatic. Click on the ellipses, then “Show background effects”. A sidebar will open andRead More →

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