Support for staff
On this page you will find a suite of short guides covering common Office 365 online app’s to improve productivity and support your student’s learning.
Microsoft Stream – your own video channel! Microsoft’s video recording and streaming service. MS Stream, is a very useful tool for creating and sharing your educational content. Find out all about the potential and accessibility benefits of using MS Stream to auto-transcribe your videos.
Microsoft Forms is a simple, lightweight tool that lets you quickly create a form, collect responses in real time, and view automatic charts to visualize your data. Find out more about MS Forms here.
You can create:
- Surveys: Collect customer feedback, measure employee satisfaction, and organize team events
- Quizzes: Measure student knowledge, evaluate class progress, and focus on topics that need improvement
- Polls: Find out what the class thinks of your trip idea, where the team wants to meet, or how attendees react to your presentation.
This short video guide takes you through how to Upload a document to MS OneDrive and how to share it as a link.
Onenote Class Notebook is a tutor supervised space giving each student a private space to compile notes, reflections, CV, ideas, research, etc. A Class Notebook is like an eportfolio – but……the tutor can see each students personal/private space and provide support and feedback on their notes / research / tutorials. It’s all part of the MS Office 365 Suite, and so fully integrates into MS Teams.
In the CUG we are using Onenote Class Notebook to structure our tutorial programme. See full details in the Learning and Teaching Hub (staff login)
Access the tutorials below to get started:
- Comprehensive video guides for tutors by Microsoft
- A free step-by-step online course on the Microsoft Learn training site.
- Shorter text guide by Microsoft to using OneNote Class Notebook in Teams
- Nice step-by step-guide with accompanying video clip by ClassPoint.io
A short student guide is provide as a PDF file in the tabs under this section.
Click the Tabs below to open short guides on using Office 365 applications – or see a list of Office 365 Quick Guides online here.