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PowerPoint presentations from Microsoft using Office 365 PowerPoint Create presentations that stand out Get your ideas across with beautiful design, rich animation, cinematic motion, 3D models and icons. Let intelligent technology help you bring your presentation to life with a few clicks. Present like a pro Tell your story with confidence with slide-by-slide notes only viewable by you. Easily translate your slides into the preferred language and use the built-in accessibility checker to be sure your audience doesn’t miss a thing. Work better together With Office 365, collaborate using real-time co-authoring and comments to get input from teammates on your presentation. Plus, save it to the cloud to easily share with others and access it from anywhere, at any time, on any device. PowerPoint Guides Quick Start Introduction to PowerPoint Slides and Layouts Text and Tables Share and Co-Author Pictures and Grpahics Present SlideShow All Guides PowerPoint All Categories Play Video Play Video 23:13 The Beginner's Guide to Microsoft PowerPoint Learn everything you need to know to get started using Microsoft PowerPoint! You'll learn all the basics plus more, including: how to choose a design theme, add text and pictures to a slide, adding new slides, animating items, and more. #powerpoint Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYUPLUCkMiUgiyVuluCc7tQ/join ***Consider supporting Technology for Teachers and Students on Patreon***: https://www.patreon.com/technologyforteachersandstudents See below for recommendations on presenter remotes: Logitech Spotlight (Best of the best): https://amzn.to/30sPS6u Logitech R800 (This is the one I use now. Excellent but a bit pricey.): http://amzn.to/2vbPZY7 Logitech R400 (Cheaper version but still great): http://amzn.to/2vbG4Sg Here's my entire PowerPoint playlist: http://bit.ly/2PaOmRZ\ ***Consider supporting Technology for Teachers and Students on Patreon***: https://www.patreon.com/technologyforteachersandstudents Play Video Play Video 26:16 Microsoft PowerPoint Tutorial - Beginners Level 1 Here's my PowerPoint video playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmkaw6oRnRv_qE6EFkCJE-Z73EPksgSd0 Are you new to Microsoft PowerPoint? This video tutorial will walk you through a beginner's guide on how to use PowerPoint 2016. Start making fantastic PowerPoint presentations after watching this video. Click on the timestamps below to jump to different parts of the video. PowerPoint Tutorial - Beginners Level 2: https://youtu.be/YcOq9LnBshY Read the PowerPoint tutorial here: https://teachers.tech/microsoft-powerpoint-tutorial/ 0:00 Start 0:52 Starting PowerPoint 1:31 Pinning to find easy later 2:45 Choosing a template 3:14 Tabs, ribbon, and launch button 4:19 Tell Me 4:45 Adding text in the title slide 5:18 Inserting new slides 6:54 Insert text box 7:10 Moving text box 8:10 Presenting your PowerPoint 9:14 Reorder slides 10:10 Add a quick design 11:14 Make your fonts look great! 12:20 Customizing your background in PowerPoint 15:02 Text options 16:37 Inserting WordArt 17:15 Insert images in PowerPoint 17:40 Formatting images 20:15 Remove background in an image 21:47 Adding animations to images 23:36 Adding slide transitions 25:09 Saving your PowerPoint DISCLAIMER: This video and description contain affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links and end up purchasing it, I’ll receive a small commission. This helps support the channel and allows us to continue to make videos like this. Thank you for your support! Play Video Play Video 12:01 How To Design a #Super #Creative & #Unique Business Slide in Microsoft Office 365 PowerPoint PPT CHECK OUT ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR PRESENTATION TEMPLATE DESIGN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yApp85FOFsU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ozq83VuoY0 PowerPoint is an enterprise level software and an amazing product of Microsoft Office. It has a great potential and the kind of features it provides are so easy to understand and simple to use that every student, manager, marketing executive or sales guy can easily create brilliant professional presentations. Microsoft Office PowerPoint is often underestimated but it allows us to create presentations, logos, banners, templates, designs, graphics, and most importantly video animations. A PowerPoint Presentation designed appropriately can really convince your target audience. A lot of design thinking needs to be put into a slide to make sure that the message is clearly delivered to the user. I have created all the videos in PowerPoint included in Microsoft Office 365 suite. My idea is to help my audience learn the PowerPoint and get to know how easy it is to create anything in presentation. Please Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CreativeVenus/?sub_confirmation=1 You can download this professional PowerPoint template from the following Gdrive location: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-jQGcJ755SDol48u2X-TBxt3W9DPh97y/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109609798992670836043&rtpof=true&sd=true I have created the playlist of all the PowerPoint Training Videos. You can visit the URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHq0onhvyWme0oqqKUmULNeavFY5q9C8j About this Microsoft Office PowerPoint 365 Training Video: How To Design a Super Creative & Unique Business Slide in Microsoft Office 365 PowerPoint PPT. 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Kahoot! Kahoot! makes it easy to create, share and play fun learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. There are so many creative ways to use Kahoot! in classrooms, corporate training sessions and other scenarios. Introducing new topics, revising content, encouraging teamwork – you name it! When you play Kahoot! in a group setting, questions appear on a shared screen and players answer on their devices. When you Kahoot! in your own time, e.g., after class, you can do it in single-player mode in our app, or compete in a challenge. Watch the tutorials below for a recap! How to host a live game of kahoot Kahoot_signup Sign up for this easy game based learning tool. Kahoot How does Kahoot! Work? Click to find out. Kahoot! Summit FREE virtual PD event hosted by Kahoot! Science Direct article The effect of using Kahoot! for learning – A literature review

Outlook email from Microsoft using Office 365 Outlook Email, calendar, contacts all in one place Work efficiently with email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and more—together in one place. Office integration lets you share attachments right from OneDrive, access contacts, and view LinkedIn profiles. Stay organized and plan ahead Book conference rooms and track RSVPs for meetings right from your calendar. Make plans and coordinate schedules by sharing calendars and seeing when your coworkers are available. Security you can trust Get peace of mind with enterprise-grade security trusted by many of the world’s largest organizations. Outlook works around the clock to protect your confidential information without getting in your way. Outlook Guides Quickstart Set up and customize Create and send email Manage email Organize your inbox Contacts and tasks Calendar All guides Outlook All Categories Play Video Play Video 03:40 Outlook for Windows user experience update - Designed for simplicity Video tour of the user experience updates to Outlook for Windows. Introducing the Coming Soon feature that let's you try the new experience when it's convenient for you and provide feedback. Links: Learn more: http://msft.social/1sy1vV Microsoft Outlook: http://msft.social/GUEcSU Play Video Play Video 01:17 How to import Gmail calendars into Outlook Import your other calendars into Outlook so you can view your schedules in one place including internet calendars from Yahoo or Google. Learn more at the Office 365 Training Center: http://office.com/training Play Video Play Video 01:53 Organize your Inbox with rules in Outlook Create rules based on senders or recipients of messages, use rule templates, and delete a rule to help organize your email. Learn more at the Office 365 Training Center: http://office.com/training Play Video Play Video 01:57 Set an email flag, reminder, or color in Outlook Adding a category to an email message works as a visual reminder for handling the email message later. Learn how to add a category, a flag, set a reminder, and assign a color category to an email message. Learn more at the Office 365 Training Center: http://office.com/training Play Video Play Video 01:45 Create and use contact groups in Outlook If you often email a group of people, create a contact group in Outlook so you only need to email that contact group instead of individual emails. Learn more at the Office 365 Training Center: http://office.com/training

Discord This is a communication tool which specialises in text, image, video and audio communication between users in a chat. It combines the features of a chat lobby, a message board and a VoIP chatting. Why use Discord rather than another platform? Discord is particularly popular with gamers and young people so may be more engaging for them. Here’s a useful link on how to set it up as a classroom. Explore and enjoy! If you have difficulties with this, please click on the link below to contact the Digital Strategy Group General - WCS Digital Strategy Group

Moodle Assessment Curriculum staff are responsible for setting up, grading and giving feedback on assignments and quizzes on Moodle. On each course, you need to have a course contact , lecturer or group-lecturer role to do this. The course contact should enrol you as lecturer or group-lecturer. To find the name of the course contact simply navigate to the course in Moodle. The name of the course contact is detailed under the title of the course and on the enrolment options page. Marking of assignments can be carried out by non-editing lecturer but for the most part you will need to have Teacher (Editor) access Handy Hints If you are new to Moodle our PDF guides use screen shots of our WCS Moodle. They are very clear and step-by-step. Our guides have logical titles like Adding a Quiz and Questions and Create Assignment . There is a link to all our Moodle guides at the bottom of this page. The video guides below have been created using a generic Moodle course but the tools and functionality is the same as our WCS Moodle. Turnitin similarity tool You can now enable Turnitin similarity checker within a Moodle Assignment. Turning this on will enable you to check the similarity of students work, grade and leave feedback using Turnitin within your students’ assessments. View our Turnitin guides for more information on how to use Turnitin. Formative and summative assessment should be in alignment with learning outcomes. Formative and summative assessment should be in alignment with learning outcomes. Feedback is key to student development. Assessment should be part of curriculum design and directly relate to the learning outcomes Curriculum teams should look at assessment at course level, where task workload, assessment diversity and equality along with course learning outcomes can be managed holistically. Assessment should be valid Ensure that assessment tasks align with the assessment criteria and measure student attainment of the intended learning objectives. Assessment should be inclusive and equitable Assessment tasks and processes should not disadvantage any group or individual students, while academic standards are maintained. Quiz A quiz can be used to assess learners formatively or summatively if you have specific answers to your questions. Moodle main page Click to access everything Moodle. Assignment guide How to use the built in Moodle assignment tool. Click to access specifically the assignment tool guide. Quiz guide How to use the built in quiz tool in Moodle. Click to access specifically the quiz tool guide. All Moodle guides Access all of our WCS guides to help you use Moodle effectively.

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Word from Microsoft using Office 365 Word Put your best words forward Write with confidence, knowing intelligent technology can help with spelling, grammar and even stylistic writing suggestions. With tools at your fingertips, easily go from pen and paper to digital inking and edit intuitively. Stay in the flow Get all the information you need as you write without leaving Word, whether it’s a teammate’s PowerPoint slide, cited research, or information from LinkedIn to help you craft a compelling resume. Close up of Smart Lookup Word Share functionality being shown in a laptop Work better together Wherever you are, collaborate in real time. Share your documents with the click of a button to invite others to edit in realtime or add comments. Plus, no matter your preferred full language or accessibility options, everyone can work together to do more. Word Guides Quick Start Welcome Word Write and Edit Format Text Lay out pages Insert tables and picture Save and print All Training Guides Word All Categories Play Video Play Video 01:08 What is Microsoft Word? With Microsoft Word on your PC, Mac, or mobile device, you can: - Create and format your document with Themes. - Review work with Track Changes. - Polish your words with proofing tools like Editor. - Save to OneDrive, to get your documents from your computer, tablet, or phone. - Share your work to chat, comment, and collaborate with others, wherever they are. Learn more at the Office 365 Training Center: https://msft.it/6003Tiusb ► Subscribe to Microsoft 365 on YouTube here: https://aka.ms/SubscribeToM365 ► Follow us on social: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/microsoft-365/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Microsoft365 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/microsoft365/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Microsoft365/ ► For more about Microsoft 365, visit https://msft.it/6006Tc8Z4 #MicrosoftWord #Microsoft #Microsoft365 Play Video Play Video 00:37 Apply a theme in Microsoft Word Apply a theme to quickly format an entire Microsoft Word document and give it a modern, professional look. Learn more at the Word Help Center: https://support.office.com/word Play Video Play Video 00:49 Apply text styles in Microsoft Word Styles give your Word document a consistent, professional look. Learn more at the Word Help Center: https://support.office.com/word Play Video Play Video 01:25 Add a Table of Contents in Word To create a table of contents that’s easy to keep up-to-date, apply heading styles to the text you want to include in the table of contents. After that, Word will build it automatically, from those headings. Learn more at the Office 365 Training Center: http://office.com/training

Wakelet Wakelet is a free platform that allows you to curate and organize content to save and share. You can save videos, articles, images, Tweets, links or even add your own text. Save this content in your bookmarks, or organize related items in to a collection. Wakelet collections can be embedded into MS Teams and Moodle. Wakelet can be used to create lessons plans, share resources with students and colleagues, collaborate on group projects and much more. Access Wakelet Platform and Guides Wakelet Platform Click to access the Wakelet platform Wakelet Help Guide Click to view our wakelet help guide.

Some courses to help your own development Self Development Exceeding Expectations This area is populated with courses and resources that you can use to enhance your digital skills. Evolve Evolve has many courses you can complete for self development. Virtual Bridge Recordings of the Virtual Bridge sessions recorded by College Development Network in partnership with Jisc. They are a series of 30-minute webinars. CoDE Certificate of Digital Excellence. 6 modules, that will ensure teachers and practitioners have an understanding and the skills needed to coach young people to be ready for our technologically-advanced world. BLE Blended Learning Essentials. This program contains essential knowledge for teachers, trainers & managers developing blended learning and prepare learners to succeed. Digital Skills Courses Want to work on your Digital Skills? Get the digital skills you need with these specially designed courses from Accenture. There are 7 free Digital Skills courses on the Future Learn platform. CDN Website Click to view the CDN's series of inspiring blogs from a huge range of key experts. Covering topics including college delivery, digital innovation, and leadership.

CoLT is dedicated to ensuring our website is accessible to all users, adhering to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0, Level AA). We strive to make our content user-friendly for everyone, including those with disabilities. While we aim for full compliance, some areas may still need improvement due to the dynamic nature of our site. We welcome feedback to help us enhance accessibility. Contact the Learning Technology Team at West College Scotland at learningtech@wcs.ac.uk. Accessibility Policy Committed to your Needs CoLT is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability. We aim to adhere as closely as possible to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0, Level AA), published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). These guidelines explain how to make Web content more accessible for people with disabilities. Conformance with these guidelines will help make the web more user friendly to everyone. Whilst CoLT strive to adhere to the guidelines and standards for accessibility, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of the website and we are currently working to achieve this. Be aware that due to the dynamic nature of the website, minor issues may occasionally occur as it is updated regularly. We are continually seeking out solutions that will bring all areas of the site up to the same level of overall web accessibility. If you have any comments and or suggestions relating to improving the accessibility of our site, please don't hesitate to contact the Learning Technology Team at West College Scotland at learningtech@wcs.ac.uk (email link is also below). Your feedback will help us make improvements. Email the Team Privacy Policy Privacy Policy What information do we collect? The information we collect from you when registering, or as part of an online service is exclusively for the use of West College Scotland. This may include your email address and perhaps your first and last names. Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of all personal information we hold for you. Site Statistics We do gather non-personal data regarding site visitors to our website. This is provided to use statistical information on visits to pages, type of browsers being used to view the site, paths taken through the site and other general information. Under no circumstances can this be linked to a particular person. Cookies A "cookie" is a small text file, which helps the server to identify your computer but not the individual. The cookies help us to make your visitor session more personal, and enriching experience. If you wish not to have this facility you are able to disable cookies using that option in your particular browsers settings. 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