Microsoft Teams: pupil and parent guides

Resources shared by schools for pupils, parents or carers about using Microsoft Teams

What is it?

A collection of resources produced by schools giving information on using Microsoft Teams for use by pupils and families.

 

Video Guides

Here’s a playlist of videos created and shared by Comely Park Primary School in Falkirk giving detailed guidance about Microsoft Teams – there are individual videos showing how to access Microsoft Teams on desktop/laptop, as well as mobile device (and ones for Microsoft OneNote as part of Microsoft Teams)

Dunipace Primary School pupil DigitalLeaders created this video guide about accessing Microsoft Teams via Glow.

This video by pupil Digital Leaders from St Patrick’s RC Primary School shows how to access Microsoft Teams.

Downloadable and Interactive Guides

Here is a helpful downloadable handout explaining about Microsoft Teams from Beancross Primary School.

Click on this link for a downloadable guide to Microsoft Teams for Pupils shared on the St Mungo’s RC High School website. Or explore this downloadable guide to expected behaviours when using Microsoft Teams class spaces to keep them positive, supportive environments for everyone.

Here’s an interactive guide to Glow and Microsoft Teams from Tulliallan Primary School, which makes use of ThingLink so that an image has clickable links to more information or videos, or helpguides for features.

Sway Guides

Here’s a superb Sway shared by Comely Park Primary School in Falkirk about how to use Microsoft Teams – this includes links to text-based resources as well as a series of in depth videos about Microsoft Teams, each specific to a different device so you can choose which is most useful to you for what you have available:

Here’s an excellent Sway from Belmont Academy aimed at pupils, giving a range of videos and slideshows about using various aspects of Microsoft Teams, whether on desktop/laptop, Apple or Android mobile device or Xbox/PlayStation. This has a series of videos on many different aspects of using Microsoft Teams so you can choose to watch the specific videos related to what you need to know. There are also slideshows about each aspect so you have the option to see the information presented in text-based form.

Here’s a useful Sway guide to using Microsoft Teams in Glow from West Lothian Digital Learning team – this includes general advice about how to keep safe in using the platform, and about additional support when using Glow:

Here’s a Sway guide to Microsoft Teams shared by Kyle Academy for parents/carers & pupils.

This Sway, also from St Mungo’s RC High School gives more information for pupils about saving work in Microsoft Teams (as well as OneDrive)

The Sway below from St Mungo’s RC High School provides more information about Microsoft Teams (as well as Word Online, Microsoft Forms and more integrated in Microsoft Teams).

 


Blog Post Credit: Malcolm Wilson

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