What is the Workspace in Office 365?
In the workspace, students 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 students 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 PDST Digital Technologies team demonstrates how teachers can provide text-based feedback to students via assignments in Teams. The student view of the process is also shown.
Sharing learning intentions and success criteria
The video demonstrates how teachers can share the learning intentions and success criteria when creating assignments on Microsoft Teams.
Audio Feedback
This video from the PDST Digital Technologies team demonstrates how teachers can provide effective oral feedback to students via assignments in Teams.
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.
Create a Poll
If would like to do a quick poll of your class:
Go to the channel you wish to create the poll
Click 'New conversation' in the 'Posts' tab
Click the three dots to look for more apps and search or select 'Polls'
Take note of the checkboxes at the bottom of the window and decide what is appropriate for you. Note that only multiple choice questions are possible.
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.
Collaborative Rubrics
Click on this link to open the view-only version
Click on 'File' in the top left of the screen
Click 'Save as'
Download a copy
Upload to OneDrive or Teams to collaborate with colleagues and/or students
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.
