Digital Portfolios - Workspace with Office 365

What is the Workspace in Office 365?

In the workspace, pupils can plan, set goals, organise learning experiences chronologically, collaborate with peers and reflect on their own learning process and on the work of their peers. The workspace of a digital portfolio in Office 365 is where the students will complete the majority of the day-to-day work regarding their digital portfolios. This work can occur largely on Teams but will also include work using Word, Excel, Stream, OneNote, etc.

Setting assignments, the use of formative assessment, the provision of effective feedback and other communication between the pupils and their teachers will occur in the workspace of a digital portfolio.

Teams Tutorials for Teachers

Create or join a Team

This short video walks teachers through the process of creating a Team for their class and generating a join code for students to use to join the Team.

Creating assignments in Teams

This video demonstrates how to create an assignment, attach a digital template for students to complete, assign it to individuals or to multiple students or class groups and schedule the assignment to upload immediately or at some point in the future.

Distributing assignments

This video demonstrates how teachers can create an assignment and share a Class Notebook page for reference. It also explains how to create a rubric to support formative assessment.

Reusing assignments

This video shows teachers how they can reuse assignments that they have created in any Team, whether it's from another class that they are currently teaching or a past class that they have archived.

Text-based feedback

This video from the Oide Digital Technologies team demonstrates how teachers can provide text-based feedback to pupils via assignments in Teams. The pupils view of the process is also shown.

Creating virtual office hours

The video shows how teachers can set up virtual office hours on Team when they are teaching asynchronously, so that teachers can join a call to check in and seek clarification on assignments.

Teams Tutorials for Students

This introductory video shows students how they can sign into Teams.

This practical video shows how students can keep on track of their work across all of their classes.

More Student Resources

Additional videos showing students how they can use other Microsoft products used in the workspace of a digital portfolio, including Word and Powerpoint are available in this YouTube playlist.

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