Category: Office 365
M365 CoPilot Dashboard
You probably noticed a rather big change to your Office dashboard recently. This is part of a new push by Microsoft to put CoPilot (their AI tool) at the center of the Office Experience. While this change was a bit jarring, there is a lot of good stuff here. Read below to learn about the ...
Technology and SEL
As a district, we have focused on socioemotional learning (SEL) for quite some time, and there are several new tools that can support this! Technology is a great way to facilitate emotional check-ins and teach students to track their own emotional regulation. For primary grades, Kahoot has partnered with Microsoft Reflect to create SEL lessons. ...
Laptops Opening Up Worlds
Issaquah School District's Academy for Community Transition (ACT) has been a vital part of helping prepare individuals with disabilities connect to and integrate into the community following their time in school. Now, thanks to the district's 1:1 program, students are getting an even deeper and more authentic experience that connects them to tools and processes ...
Canvas Office Cloud Assignment Tips
For those of you who love Teams and the ease of creating cloud assignments for your students, never fear, Canvas has a similar ability. Here are some of tips I've gathered from working with you all the past few weeks. You asked, we are answering, here are some tips for using Office in Canvas Question: ...
Canvas External Tools Rubric Workaround
You want the best of both worlds - to use an external tool integration for your assignment, but to grade it with a rubric! I am hoping with voting up, this will soon become a seamless work path in Canvas, but until then, there is a workaround. Thank your summer instructors Erin Kwok and Chris ...
What to do with those pesky PDFs?
As we have moved to a remote learning environment, you may be straddled with a curriculum full of PDFs. Unfortunately, these are not as easy to navigate in the online world without a hefty knowledge of Adobe. Well, we have some awesome workarounds for getting students to interact with those pesky PDFs. Option 1: Convert ...
Collect Files in Forms
A great new feature has been added to Microsoft Forms, you can now collect files! Many teachers have had students submit links to files, but this new feature means that students can now submit their completed files as an attachment directly to a folder in your own One Drive. Here is a quick video to ...
Flipgrid + Immersive Reader = Access for All!
Flipgrid is taking on the ISTE standard of "Empowered Learner" to an entirely new level, by incorporating Microsoft's Immersive Reader tool. This way, not only are students encouraged to use their voices to post their own videos, but there are built-in supports for them to listen to the initial prompt. By incorporating Immersive Reader ...
Microsoft Inclusive Math Tools
One Note (Class Notebook) offers several inclusive features to support student learning including Math Tools. This inclusive feature allows students to solve math problems, see how the problem was solved, graph the problem, and interact with the graph. They can also create their own practice quiz, use the Immersive Reader tool to read the problem aloud, ...
Create a Form from Excel (To Keep It Linked)
One of the ways in which Microsoft Forms is different than Google Forms, is that if you create a Form from the Forms web app, there is no Excel sheet attached. This creates an extra step if you want to play with the data collected from a form. Another difference is that when you do ...