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Update to Sharing Language on OneDrive/SharePoint

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What’s changed? Microsoft are improving Link settings by providing more helpful tooltips, definitions and clearer language to help you understand which link type and permissions best suit your needs, prior sharing a file or folder to your co-workers. ​ Microsoft…

OneNote for Windows 10 – End of Support

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What’s changing? Support for OneNote for Windows 10 has been scheduled to stop in October 2025. Additionally In preparation for the end-of-support, Microsoft have hidden the OneNote app for Windows 10 in the Microsoft Store. What’s next You don’t have…

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – March 15, 2024

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New updates Banner alerts for Google Drive item capacity limits in shared drives  To give users more visibility when shared drives in their domain are approaching the item capacity limit (400,000 items), Google are introducing banner alerts that identify current…

New Google Additional Service – Google Books

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As you may know, Google Workspace is an opt in service so not all Glow users will have a Google account. Once Local Authorities have opted into Google Workspace, they can also enable Google Additional Services. Google requires consent to be obtained…

Google Workspace Updates – April Recap

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Simplified troubleshooting of user issues in the Admin console When viewing a user’s detail page in the Admin console, you’ll notice new “Investigate”, “Security”, and “Groups” tabs. Within these tabs, you can find all user-related information from security alerts to…

Glow Google Newsletter, Term 4

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To help with accessing the latest Glow Google Updates, we have pulled together an updated newsletter for Term 4. This Glow Google Newsletter includes information about: As always, we’d be keen to hear your feedback if this Newsletter is helpful Glow.Engagement@educationscotland.gov.scot…

Microsoft Learning Accelerators in Glow

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Microsoft Learning Accelerators are a set of tools baked into Microsoft 365 for Education, designed to help educators personalise learning for every student. These AI-powered tools for teachers, help unlock each student’s potential with foundational and future-ready skills. They’re seamlessly…

Appointment slots feature in Google Calendar changing in July 2024

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What’s changing Currently, Google offer two tools with similar functionality for users in Google Calendar: appointment slots and appointment schedules. In the last several years, appointment schedules have become the more advanced tool, offering a smoother booking experience and more powerful features.  To…

Pin chat messages in Google Meet

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What’s changing  You can now pin messages to the top of the meeting chat. Pinned messages will appear for all users, even if they join the meeting after the message was initially sent. This makes it easy to ensure that…