Microsoft Office Lens (or Office Lens, or Microsoft Lens) is a versatile digital tool which can be helpful in many situations in an educational context. A teacher may wish to quickly grab the text from a page of a printed document to edit, to annotate and to share with a class. Office Lens can do …
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Making Movies with Microsoft Photos app Video editor
Move over Windows Movie Maker – and start making movies on a PC/laptop with the free Microsoft Photos app! If you previously had been used to using Windows Movie Maker to quickly create videos, you may not even have noticed on devices running Windows 10 and later that you have the latest version of the …
Making the most of Microsoft Edge web browser in education
Microsoft Edge web browser has a number of features which make it useful in an educational context. So if you’re not yet using it you might want to have a look, and if you are already using it you may find it worthwhile to explore some of the features you may have yet to discover! …
More than one Microsoft Teams account on same device
Are you using Microsoft Teams with more than one account on the same device? If you are then you may find the following helpful:
Power Up your PowerPoint Presentation with inbuilt Designer for Design Ideas
Do you want to present with panache, style or flair? If you or your learners spend a lot of time trying to make your PowerPoint slides look good, then welcome to PowerPoint’s inbuilt Designer or Design Ideas to power up your PowerPoint presentation in the click of a button!
PowerPoint Presenter Coach to help become clear, confident and expressive when communicating & presenting
If you are looking for a way to support learners (or indeed, yourself!) to be clear, expressive and confident when communicating & presenting to others using digital tools, then Microsoft PowerPoint Presenter Coach is a handy feature of Microsoft PowerPoint.
Moving Glow User – Steps for Staff Glow Users Moving Establishment or Local Authority
At the end of each school year you may be moving from one establishment to another, or from one local authority in Scotland to another. You’ll want to be aware of how your move may change your access to your Glow account and actions you’ll need to take before the move. The following guides may …
Sharing about Microsoft Teams with Pupils, Parents or Carers
Here’s resources shared by schools for pupils, parents or carers about using Microsoft Teams
Get OneNote on your device
OneNote is one part of Microsoft Office 365 suite of digital tools available to all Glow users, which includes Microsoft Teams. If you have a class Team in Microsoft Teams then you will automatically have a OneNote Class Notebook as part of this. Here’s links to short videos showing you how to get OneNote on …
Connection woes? Here’s suggestions to try
Don’t panic – it happens with any online tool! Every online platform hiccups from time to time: you might get error messages, things don’t update, you can’t upload files, you can’t share what you need to share – and you can probably add to that list! And, of course, it happens when you are trying …
