Assessment with Microsoft O365 (This is Digital)

Microsoft O365 has a range of tools and apps that can be used to support teaching digitally.
 
 

Office365 in Glow – DigiLearn (glowscotland.org.uk)

Teams allows you and your learners to share files – making it easy for them to return learning activities and evidence to you in one place. You can then access these shared files and provide feedback directly on their document. As the documents are shared online this enables the teacher to provide feedback in real-time, making it even easier to provide more meaningful feedback that can be direct learning.
Assignments within Teams add additional functionality to file sharing and managing assessment evidence from learning.

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Forms Quiz option allows you to create interactive quizzes for assessment. When set to Quiz, Forms allow you to set a correct answer and feedback comment that will auto-assess and feedback to learners instantly. Forms also has an ‘upload’ option for answers, allowing learners to submit media or different file types, such as a photo of mathematical working or a Scratch file, making it effective for different evidence types. There is even an option to allow maths inputs, such as symbols or formulae, making it an adaptable tool for assessment.

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Learning with Microsoft O365 (This is Digital)

Microsoft O365 has a range of tools and apps that can be used to support teaching digitally.

Office365 in Glow – DigiLearn (glowscotland.org.uk)

Online Teaching Strategies

O365 Teams allows you to check in with learners using direct messaging and chat; and assign learning and activities to individual learners, groups or whole classes with Assignments.

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Teams Assignments are an effective way to share learning activities with learners – share learning intentions, activity instructions and assessment feedback in one place.

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Whiteboard allows your learners to share ideas and understanding with pre-made mind-mapping layouts (effective for scaffolding thinking) and post-it notes

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OneNote is a virtual notebook that makes use of sections and pages, like an organiser, to order learning. The pages can include text, images, video, drawing with virtual ink, and voice recordings – this flexibility makes it effective to evidence learning.

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There are built-in accessibility tools that can make it easier for learners to engage with digital apps including typing with their voice, having the screen read to them or even having PowerPoint listen to their presentation and offer feedback on it

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Teaching with Microsoft O365 (This is Digital)

Considerations for Creating Learning Content

Microsoft O365 has a range of tools and apps that can be used to support teaching digitally. When creating content for learning it is vital to consider the layout, presentation and amount of information.

Office365 in Glow – DigiLearn (glowscotland.org.uk)

Stream

O365 Stream allows you to create your own videos to support learning and teaching – and you can even upload videos you have already created for other platforms.

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PowerPoint

PowerPoint can be used to create presentations to support your delivery or provide information for learners to use independently to support their thinking.

Forms Quizzes

O365 Forms allow you to create quizzes that can be shared to learners online. Quizzes can be set up to self-mark, saving time on marking and providing instant feedback to learners.

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Creating Multimedia Teaching Content

Microsoft Educator Centre

Create with Adobe Creative Cloud Express and Microsoft EDU – Microsoft Educator Center

How to choose the right colors and create visual hierarchy – Microsoft Educator Center

What to do before designing your presentation – Microsoft Educator Center

How to use video and animation effects – Microsoft Educator Center

How to combine text and images like a pro – Microsoft Educator Center

Adobe Education Exchange

Basic Principles of Design | Adobe Education Exchange

Engaging Video Projects in the Classroom | Adobe Education Exchange

Creating Digital Images Professional Learning Kit | Adobe Education Exchange

 

Planning with Microsoft O365 (This is Digital)

Microsoft O365 has a range of tools and apps that can be used to support planning digitally:

  • Forms
  • Whiteboard
  • OneDrive 
  • Teams

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Office365 in Glow – DigiLearn (glowscotland.org.uk)

Forms can be used to create forms for evaluation and polls or quizzes for assessment and feedback. Engage with your learners and use their ideas to plan better learning.

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O365 Whiteboard allows you to share ideas with pre-made mind-mapping layouts and post-it notes

What is Microsoft Whiteboard? – DigiLearn (glowscotland.org.uk)

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O365 Teams allows you to work together by sharing files or with video calls

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O365 OneDrive can be used to create and collaborate on documents together.

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digital HGIOS features of highly effective digital in learning teaching and assessment

Features of Highly Effective Digital Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Schools

This document outlines the features of high-quality digital learning experiences for all children and young people. It highlights the importance of highly-skilled staff who work with children, young people and others to ensure digital learning is motivating and meaningful.

It has been designed for use primarily by L.A. staff, senior leaders, school leaders, practitioners.

 

View the document 

Online Resources from DigiLearnScot

With all of the ongoing challenges of COVID-19 in schools, we’ve pulled together a few resources to support teachers when learners or staff are absent due to self-isolation.

These resources have been designed or curated to lend themselves to be undertaken with a degree of independence and not requiring a teacher to deliver ‘live’, although they could be adapted to suit this mode.

All of our materials are copyright-free but please respect the copyright and ownership of any resources or content we link to.

Let us know if you found any of these resources useful by writing a short blog post or tweeting about them with the hashtag #DigiLearnChat

Digital Literacy with iPad

These activities have been designed with the iPad in mind but could be adapted for use with other devices and apps. The apps suggested are typical ‘out of the box’ apps that should be available on your device without the need for download or purchase.

Online Resources from DigiLearnScot

With all of the ongoing challenges of COVID-19 in schools, we’ve pulled together a few resources to support teachers when learners or staff are absent due to self-isolation.

These resources have been designed or curated to lend themselves to be undertaken with a degree of independence and not requiring a teacher to deliver ‘live’, although they could be adapted to suit this mode.

All of our materials are copyright-free but please respect the copyright and ownership of any resources or content we link to.

Let us know if you found any of these resources useful by writing a short blog post or tweeting about them with the hashtag #DigiLearnChat

Digital Literacy with iPad

These activities have been designed with the iPad in mind but could be adapted for use with other devices and apps. The apps suggested are typical ‘out of the box’ apps that should be available on your device without the need for download or purchase.

Cyber Scotland Week 2022 – Capture the Flag with Try Hack Me for Secondary Schools

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CAPTURE THE FLAG NOW

 

This page is for secondary teachers interested in entering teams into a FREE cyber security Capture the Flag event on TryHackMe.

The challenges will be suitable for complete beginners as well as experienced tech-savvy students. Try Hack Me will support teachers with three recorded lessons. This information might be useful to know before starting with the recorded lessons and the Capture the Flag event:
TryHackMe | Network Fundamentals

This video from TryHackMe gives an overview of the platform to get you started

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Recorded Lessons

lesson 1

 

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lesson 2

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lesson 3

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Room for them to follow along: https://tryhackme.com/jr/introdigitalforensics

Room to complete after https://tryhackme.com/jr/windowsforensics1

CIDREE Yearbook 2021 – Digital Literacy: Curriculum Development and Implementation in European Countries

The latest CIDREE Yearbook was published towards the end of last year. Titled Digital Literacy: Curriculum Development and Implementation in European Countries, we contributed the Scottish chapter on how digital literacy has been embraced by education practitioners and learners across Early Learning and Childcare, primary and secondary schools (ages 3-18). 

It details how adapting and diversifying modes of professional learning are critical in providing practitioners with relevant, motivating and skills-building opportunities to improve their own digital learning and subsequently provide better digital learning for young people. It then expands on how this has led to the development of knowledge, skills and application in the use of digital tools and on pedagogical practice.

Read the full CIDREE publication here

Go to the Scottish article

make it happen

Make It Happen – supporting schools with digital learning

Based in Scotland, Make It Happen is a charity with a clear focus, to inspire children and young people’s engagement with digital learning. One of the main ways they inspire learners is through their innovative and exciting app competition which is run for entire primary schools.

They also run special online #Happathon events, create resources and can offer support to both pupils (Digital Leaders) and staff to equip them with knowledge and ideas about how to use specific resources. 

 

Make It Happen delivered an online presentation to explain who they are and what they do:

  • Make it Happen
  • Engagement with schools
  • Support for teachers

Want to explore careers in tech? Make It Happen have shared this presentation all about careers.