How to use Teams as a school communications hub to enhance traditional email, collaboration, meeting planning, file sharing etc. Learn how to make the most of your virtual meetings and how to capitalise on the collaboration tools integrated in Microsoft Teams

This event is designed to help teacher adapting to delivering remote lessons. The content is focused less on the technology, but more so on how to keep students engaged, how to plan remote lessons, how to maintain a level of professionalism and how to support student general wellbeing.

Discover how to set up and manage your virtual classes, how to keep in touch with your students and how to collaborate with colleagues to deliver effective
home learning.  

Explore different types of assignments and best practice around setting assignments.  How to mark assignments through different assessment methods and using the ‘rubric’ options to embed mark schemes.

OneNote Class Notebooks provide a flexible digital workspace and a connection between the teacher and their students. Explore how you can easily distribute content, set tasks, provide individualised learning and personalise your feedback for all your students.

Sway is a great tool for presenting information to students, but it also provides a simple tool for students to present their understanding, whilst Microsoft Forms can be used to quiz students or to automate formal assessments.

Learn how to use Microsoft Whiteboard to deliver interactive presentations. Perfect for educators looking to teach live lessons or for those looking to pre-record their front of class support

Whether they are integrated into Teams or used individually, SWAY is a great tool for presenting information, OneNote makes it easy to distribute work and provide feedback to students, and Microsoft Forms can be used to quiz students or to automate formal assessments.

Explore what Flipgrid is, how to set up your own grids and topics, different methods of sharing and collecting responses and how to quickly respond with your own video feedback

Discover how tools such as OneNote and Forms can be applied specifically to support students learning Maths, both in a remote learning scenario or classroom-based lesson.

Minecraft Education Edition can help bring the curriculum to life. This session is for educators who are new to Minecraft and those who want to start exploring how you embed a tool which can massively increases student engagement in mainstream subjects such as English and Science.

For educators ready to explore beyond the basics of using Minecraft to engage students, this session will explore functions such as coding or creating interactive challenges for students such as virtual escape rooms or build challenges. 

Microsoft have invested heavily in providing accessibility tools to support learners around the world. This session will explore the range of accessibility tools available in Word, OneNote, PowerPoint and more, including the Immersive Reader and PowerPoint Translator.

Tips for delivering remote teaching in areas with low bandwidth or where access to devices for students is limited. See how Microsoft tools can be used to support asynchronous learning.