We know that time is precious when you work in education; whether you’re marking, planning, or delivering a lesson, it can be tricky to find the time to get back to what you love about teaching.
While we can’t increase the number of hours in your day, we can give you some ideas on saving time when creating learning resources with some essential tools and features in Microsoft 365.
Centralise resources.
Create a centralised, long-term resource bank in SharePoint for teaching resources, policies and other documents that can be reused and repurposed every academic year.
With Microsoft 365, you can create designated areas in SharePoint that only users with the correct permissions can access. For example, only one department, only certain classes or students or only staff members.
Not only does this save time each year by not having to replicate or re-upload resources, but it also means that everyone has access to everything they need to work – whether that’s a student or staff member.
We provide automation services to create centralised resource areas automatically from your school’s MIS data. Find out more by chatting with a member of our team.
“Everything we need is in the cloud, so we don’t have to worry about losing paper worksheets. Pupils can also use SharePoint and Teams to download assignment tasks, refresh their memories, take quizzes and be in touch with the teacher in between lessons.”
Co-author documents with colleagues.
Word Documents, PowerPoints, Excel Spreadsheets, and more can be co-authored in real-time with your colleagues.
Co-authoring is excellent if you need another staff member’s import on a document or if you’ve agreed to share the workload by co-creating learning resources for your department.
Why spend hours creating a resource from scratch that your colleague has already spent time making?
Instead, easily and securely share, edit and co-create documents with others in your school, academy or trust.
Sharing is caring.
By centralising your resources and co-authoring documents, you can begin to build a powerful library of learning materials that can be shared across an entire department, the whole school or even your trust.
So, instead of ten teachers creating ten versions of the same document, you can pool together your resources and free up time to spend on other areas, like grading, working with students or professional development (or even just taking a break!).
“Cloud Box has been transformational in the way we work and create learning content. We are now beginning to create revision resources that can be accessed by our pupils at any time on a connected device. Not only is this brilliant for the students, but also for staff who can dedicate more time to sharpening their message and delivery.”
Rollover resources to the next academic year.
With our Cloud Box solution, there’s no need for you to start from scratch when a new academic year rolls around.
Instead, everything – your resources, classes and student information – is cleaned up and rolled over automatically, ready for the start of term.
We use Microsoft School Data Sync (SDS) to start a rollover and clean-up process; our centralised resource areas allow you to reuse resources year on year, while the Class Dashboard enables students to easily access archived Teams from previous academic years.
Already have Microsoft School Data Sync? Talk to us about how we can extend this to provide central resource areas, SharePoint intranets, Class Cover tools and much more.
Not set up with Microsoft School Data Sync? We can help you get started and future-proof your Class Teams setup. Contact us for a friendly chat with one of our Education Experts.
