Glow Cloud Kit documentation

Glow Cloud Kit is a suite of 18 premium web parts for SharePoint Online that fix what the platform can't do natively - custom site headers, full theming, a modern staff directory, a multi-source calendar, a social feed and weather with world clocks. Everything runs client-side in your own tenant, with minimal Microsoft Graph permissions.

The apps

• Header - design and apply a branded site header (logo, colours, fonts, navigation, backgrounds) that renders site-wide. Header guide →
• Theme - design, preview and apply complete SharePoint themes and site branding from one panel. Theme guide →
• Directory - a people directory with live contact cards, presence, celebrations and self-service profiles. Directory guide →
• Agenda - overlay SharePoint lists, Exchange, Microsoft 365 groups and iCal feeds in one colour-coded view. Agenda guide →
• Social - your organisation's own published posts surfaced on the intranet, read-only. YouTube, Bluesky, Mastodon and RSS connect instantly; Facebook and Instagram are coming soon, once our Meta app review completes. Social guide →
• WorldKit - live weather and world clocks in two web parts (Weather and Time & Date), for one location or a board of offices. WorldKit guide →
• Launchpad - dynamic quick links, tiles and icon boxes, authored on the page or bound to a SharePoint list. Launchpad guide →
• Newsroom - live SharePoint news in eight layouts including Editorial and Mosaic, with pinning, reordering and flags that native news cannot do. Newsroom guide →
• Announce - announcements, severity alerts and a scrolling ticker, scheduled and audience-targeted. Announce guide →
• Spotlight - a high-impact hero banner and call-to-action card with a legibility scrim. Spotlight guide →
• FAQ Builder - modern accordions and FAQs with rich text, images and search, built directly on the page. FAQ Builder guide →
• Org Chart - an interactive, pan-zoom org chart from Microsoft 365 and a SharePoint overrides list, with matrix reporting, dotted lines and vacant positions. Org Chart guide →
• Showcase - a responsive image and video gallery with seven layouts and an accessible lightbox, from manual items or a document library. Showcase guide →
• Section - full-bleed design bands with shape dividers, gradients, images and a legibility scrim to separate the sections of a page. Section guide →
• Prism - any SharePoint list as a beautiful table, cards or tiles, read-only, without touching the source list. Prism guide →
• Cheers - an employee recognition wall with badges, photos, likes and comments, plus birthdays and anniversaries surfaced automatically. Cheers guide →
• Pulse - two web parts: a one-question Quick Poll and a full pulse survey, both answered on the page with a designed results dashboard. Pulse guide →
• Greetings - greets every visitor by their own name, at their own time of day, and on their birthday. Greetings guide →

How it works, end to end

1. Subscribe - start a monthly or annual plan (14-day free trial) from the pricing page.
2. Activate - sign in to the customer portal with the same Microsoft work account you purchased with. This binds your tenant to the subscription. See Licensing & activation.
3. Install - download each app's .sppkg from the portal and upload it to your tenant App Catalog. See the Install guide.
4. Use - add the web part to a page (or, for Header, it applies site-wide automatically). Each app validates your subscription on load.

There are no licence keys to copy or install. Once your tenant is activated in the portal, every app licenses itself automatically when it loads.

Requirements

• SharePoint Online (Microsoft 365). On-premises SharePoint is not supported.
• A SharePoint / Microsoft 365 administrator to upload to the App Catalog and approve any Graph permissions.
• Admin consent to a small set of read-only Microsoft Graph scopes, for the 9 apps that ask for any: Agenda, Announce, Directory, FAQ Builder, Launchpad, Newsroom, Org Chart, Showcase, Spotlight. The other 9 need none. Every scope, and the reason for it, is listed on the security page.

New here? Start with the Install guide.