Homework

Email

In September, you will be given your unique email address. It will look like this: Firstname.Lastname@testbourne.school
This will be used for communicating with staff and logging into websites related to your learning. When you first log in, the computer will ask you to change your password. Make sure this password is unique, and uses a mixture of letters, numbers and punctuation. Do not share your password with anyone else.

Teams

The school uses Microsoft Teams (which is part of the Office365 suite) as its homework platform. This platform is entirely web based and can be accessed from any Internet connected device. To access Microsoft Teams do the following:

  1. Go to: https://testbourne.sharepoint.com/sites/students and login using your school email address and password (the same used to login to the school computers).The Student Portal will load up.
  2. From the Student Portal homepage, click "Microsoft Teams".
  3. Microsoft Teams will now load up. Click "Teams" from the menu on the left and then all of your classes will show.

You can click into these classes to access any assignments (both classwork and homework) as well as any resources that your teacher has made available. You can also access all of your assignments from across all of your classes by clicking "Assignments".

You can also download the Microsoft Teams app on Microsoft Windows, macOS, iOS and Android devices by going to the relevant app store and searching for "Microsoft Teams".

SharePoint & OneDrive

OneDrive is a ‘Cloud’ storage system, where you will save your documents to. Your OneDrive is personal to you, and no other students can see work you save here unless you share it with them. IT Staff can monitor your OneDrive and teachers can access it if needed, so remember to use the system responsibly.

You can also save documents in ‘SharePoint’ to collaborate with other people. Teachers may save class resources such as revision guides here for you to access. Anything added or edited here will be visible to other students and members of staff.

If you have any IT-related issues, please speak to your tutor, or speak to Mr Rees in the IT support office in Room 17.