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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 →

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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 →

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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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Meetings in Microsoft Teams have been a great way to continue instructional activities that have traditionally been done face to face. This includes all sorts of class discussions as well as even more traditional teachers delivering content with the possibility of student interactions, questions and answers. This month Microsoft rolled out several enhancements to the meetings in Teams that are particularly useful for teachers using Class Teams with students. This is our topic on Day 108 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365. Set Permissions to Attendee Microsoft Teams was designed for transparency and full collaboration, which helps explain why people who join your meeting, particularlyRead 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 →

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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 →

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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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Last time we looked at the vast differences in posting and responding to posts in Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.  Teams just had too many features to cover in one article, so we’ll look at another category today, reactions to posts, none of which exist in Google Classroom, so we’ll leave that behind this time.  Day 102 of 365 Ideas for #Microsoft365 is all the ways you can react to a post in Teams. BTW, we have to make a slight change- this series has been titled 365 Ideas for Office 365, but Microsoft is rebranding, so it will now be Microsoft 365. Posting picturesRead More →