Collaborative learning
Using a range of tools to work collaboratively in a responsible and considerate way.
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Microsoft Office 365: Computing systems and networks: Collaborative learning
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Understand the need to be thoughtful when working on a collaborative document.
- Use comments to suggest changes to a document and understand how to resolve comments.
- Plan a survey for Microsoft Form with a range of different question types that will provide different types of answers, e.g. text, multiple choice or numerical values.
- Create a Microsoft Form with a range of different question types that will provide different types of answers, e.g. text, multiple choice or numerical values.
- Export data to a spreadsheet, highlighting data, using conditional formatting and calculating averages and sums of numbers.
Suggested prior learning
Microsoft Office 365: Computing systems and networks 2: Emailing
If your school does not have access to Microsoft, there is also a Google version of this unit.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Teamwork
- To understand that software can be used to work online collaboratively.
Lesson 2: Sharing a document
- To understand how to contribute to someone else’s work effectively.
Lesson 3: Microsoft Forms 1
- To understand how to create a digital survey.
Lesson 4: Microsoft Forms 2
- To create and share a Microsoft Form.
Lesson 5: Shared spreadsheets
- To analyse data.
Key skills
Key knowledge
Related content
Resources
Unit resources

Computing
Knowledge organiser: Computing – Y4 Collaborative learning
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit.

Computing
Vocabulary display – Computing Y4: Collaborative learning
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Collaborative learning unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
RSE: Respectful Relationships, courtesy and manners.
English: Writing – composition and peer assessment.
Maths: Interpreting data, bar charts and time graphs.