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Remote learning -
A journey to a
virtual classroom
Whatever stage your school is at in your cloud adoption we can
suggests ways for you to help keep your students learning.
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Scenario – you want a basic level of collaboration and will be relying mainly on email or cloud apps to communicate with your students.
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Email students' work – one-way communication - Staff to Student |
G Suite tenancy not required |
Office 365 tenancy not required |
Schools with Office 365 or G Suite For Education
Teach from Home – key resources from Google
https://www.rm.com/education/microsoft-in-education-useful-links
Scenario – you have an Office 365 or Google tenancy and will be sharing files, coursework and other resources.
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Share resources/study packs with students in the cloud. Resources sent one way. |
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Sharing resources where students in the cloud where students can edit the files facilitating collaborative work between teacher and student and between students. |
Share files from SharePoint or OneDrive with collaborative access. |
Scenario – you are using the more collaborative features of your tenancy (such as Teams and Classroom) to deliver virtual classrooms, recorded lessons, meetings and collaboration spaces.
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Implementing Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams to create |
Introduction and training videos are available – as well as this quick-start PDF guide |
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Use Google Hangout Meet or Team Meetings to create live virtual classroom |
Review the section “Schedule a meeting with your team or class” in the PDF guide |
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Share your screen using Google Hangout Meet or Teams to allow you to talk around your teaching resources e.g. a Google Slide or PowerPoint presentation |
Review the section “Participate in a meeting” in the PDF guide. |
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Record your video lessons and share with students for anytime anywhere access |
Review the section “Participate in a meeting” in the PDF guide. |
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Using collaborative online whiteboards |
Create a OneNote Class or Staff Notebook in your relevant Team. |
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...if you are teaching remotely, you may still want some type of interactive whiteboard to emulate how you teach in the classroom, for example, if you normally use a Smartboard or Promethean Board. |
One of our favourites is Miro. You can sign up for a free Educational Account, which gives additional functionality and allows you to create unlimited boards - https://miro.com/education/ |
Review the section “OneNote Class and Staff Notebooks” in the PDF guide. |
You may also like to consider creating virtual meeting rooms to allow departments or perhaps the whole school to meet together. This could be achieved using Google Chat or Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams – see "schedule a meeting with your team or class"
Please do send us your feedback on this and let us know how you are getting on. Have you come up with any better ideas?
Please get in contact if you would like some support from a member of our team.