canva

We are excited to share that we will be launching Canva for Education through the FUSD Clever portal on December 1st, 2023!  

All teachers and students will have access to the all-in-one visual communication platform through Clever. All staff will be able to access Canva at canva.com and sign in with their Microsoft account. For teachers, Clever will roster your existing students so you can create Canva assignments for your multimedia projects. Below you will find resources and tutorials for learning more about Canva.

What is Canva? 

Canva is a web-based app that can be used to create stunning multimedia products with ease. This includes posters …

Read more Canva Rostering and SSO in Clever

flip

Screen Recording is great for making video tutorials and instructional videos for colleagues or students. This can be accomplished using Microsoft Stream or even by a simple Teams Meeting recording. But guess what, screen recording is now available in Flip (formerly Flipgrid), a staff favorite for video-based collaboration. Teachers have used Flip over the years to engage students and boost their voice through video-based reflections. But now it’s even better!

That’s right – you can now make screen recordings within Flip to create explainer videos, instructional videos, and more. Your screen recordings are published to the Flip website and can be …

Read more Screen Record in Flip

stream 2.0

Microsoft Stream is the YouTube of our organization. We can upload videos onto Stream and share them with colleagues, students, or the whole organization. We also appreciate the ability to create screen recordings right on the Stream website. It’s been a great ride and it will continue, but we wanted to let you know that the interface is changing due to the migration of the Stream videos over to SharePoint. With this move, you will notice that the process of sharing your videos is exactly the same as sharing a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file.

You may not be seeing …

Read more New Microsoft Stream 2.0 Interface

assignment features

The Class Teams Assignment builder just got an upgrade. What’s new you ask? You can now use video recording and whiteboard as platforms for students to submit work. And, you can now have the assignments post to your students’ calendars. The video recording aspect runs on the Stream platform and can be used by the students to record themselves explaining their work or responding to a prompt. In addition, the teacher can use it to record themselves explaining the task or new concepts for the students.

The whiteboard feature utilizes Microsoft Whiteboard, which we have seen as a stand-alone app …

Read more New Teams Assignment Features

Stream Playlist

Video playlists are great for organizing lists of videos. This greatly helps your audience, such as students, to watch your list of related videos in a pre-defined order. Microsoft Stream provides the ability to create “Channels” that can how your list of videos. You can then share a single link to your channel (playlist of videos). In addition, you can now embed your channel into any Microsoft Team. The video below created by our own EdTech Evangelist, provides a detailed look at how to create a channel, add your videos, and embed your channel into a Microsoft Team.

Read more Video Playlists in Microsoft Stream

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