Windows 10: 25+ updates for Microsoft Teams for Education for Back to School July

Brink · Jul 30, 2020

2020 has been wild. COVID-19 has reached all corners of the world, impacting and interrupting the way educators teach, students learn, parents support learners, and how we lead our daily lives. Microsoft Teams for Education has been right there alongside educators, students, and families during these often challenging times with new changes and improvements announced in June and July to help schools adapt to learning during a pandemic.

Thank you for sharing your feedback, triumphs, and difficulties with us along the way. Weâre humbled by the ingenuity you bring to improving student outcomes every day and the trust you extend to Microsoft Teams as a part of your learning community. Each new and improved feature we design is inspired by you, and for you.

Now, weâre thrilled to share even more Teams updates for those headed into a new school year or those in the middle of their year. Whether your school is learning remotely, adopting hybrid learning, or adjusting plans week-to-week, weâve got you covered to:

1) Run engaging classes through online meetings
2) Maintain student safety with control of meetings and classrooms
3) Easily deploy and manage Teams for your school or institution
4) Do more with Assignments in Teams
5) Keep learners engaged and collaborating in the classroom
6) Nurture social and emotional wellbeing outside of the classroom
7) Train yourself in Teams with additional resources

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Brink · Jul 31, 2020

25+ updates for Microsoft Teams for Education for Back to School July

2020 has been wild. COVID-19 has reached all corners of the world, impacting and interrupting the way educators teach, students learn, parents support learners, and how we lead our daily lives. Microsoft Teams for Education has been right there alongside educators, students, and families during these often challenging times with new changes and improvements announced in June and July to help schools adapt to learning during a pandemic.

Thank you for sharing your feedback, triumphs, and difficulties with us along the way. We’re humbled by the ingenuity you bring to improving student outcomes every day and the trust you extend to Microsoft Teams as a part of your learning community. Each new and improved feature we design is inspired by you, and for you.

Now, we’re thrilled to share even more Teams updates for those headed into a new school year or those in the middle of their year. Whether your school is learning remotely, adopting hybrid learning, or adjusting plans week-to-week, we’ve got you covered to:

1) Run engaging classes through online meetings
2) Maintain student safety with control of meetings and classrooms
3) Easily deploy and manage Teams for your school or institution
4) Do more with Assignments in Teams
5) Keep learners engaged and collaborating in the classroom
6) Nurture social and emotional wellbeing outside of the classroom
7) Train yourself in Teams with additional resources

Let’s dive in! (If you’re just looking for a list without extra description, click here to jump.)
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Read more: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...l/ba-p/1554445

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Brink · Jul 31, 2020

Microsoft Teams for Education 20 updates, 7x7 video and Breakout Rooms

Over the last few months, schools and institutions have been working tirelessly to enable distance learning. We’ve heard directly from many of you about engaging students in lessons, encouraging student-to-student collaboration, and facilitating staff professional development, all while remote.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas about how to improve Microsoft Teams for distance and hybrid learning. We continue to be inspired by you and are always exploring and implementing new ways for Teams to support student engagement and professional development.

We pulled together key learnings we’ve heard from customers, and announced new features designed to support you and your class. If you’d like to read more, check out the Remote Learning Trends blog here. Or read on to learn the specifics of what’s available and coming soon, and how students, educators, and IT can get the most of out Teams.

Getting back-to-school ready with 4 top-requested features

What is available now, what’s coming soon

Resources for educators

Guidance for IT admins

Getting back-to-school ready with 4 top-requested features

Just like in a physical classroom, students and educators will see up to 49 attendees in a 7x7 class meeting view, preview available at the end of June.

7x7 video view showing 49 screens

Coming in the Fall, instead of trying to work with the whole class, educators can create virtual breakout rooms so students can work within their smaller groups on a discussion or assignment, then easily be called back to the larger group.

To help educators focus on students and give informed feedback, the Class Insights tab, now available, uses intelligent data analytics to highlight how students are learning and engaging in meetings, communication, files and assignment activities. And in time for the fall, educators will see a new, tailored view that distills the key story and trends behind the data to better inform engagement with students and class outcomes.

New Class Insights dashboard

Eliminate background distractions and create a more focused online learning environment with a . This means you can upload any image you want as your background. And later in June, get ready for some fun new education themed backgrounds.

Use a custom background for your video

What's available now, what’s coming soon

We have been listening closely to educators and have already integrated your feedback into our product plans. Here are the features we have just shipped, as well as a bunch more that are coming soon. We have many more being active worked on in UserVoice for Teams and education that you can get the latest status on. Just look for the "Working on it" status in UserVoice items

Enriched classroom meeting experience – available now

Easily Change “Meeting Options” in the Participant Panel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBJ3hQx0-GE

https://youtu.be/_jj0XgB-P84

Enriched classroom meeting experience – coming soon

7x7 video support on desktop (see 49 people at once) –Preview starting in late June, coming this fall

Only Educators can start the meeting - Students must wait in the lobby – Coming this summer

Breakout Rooms – Coming this fall

Meetings attendee limit increasing from 250 to 300 – Rolling out in June

IT Admin meeting settings and policies

New IT Admin policy packages for remote learning and other education personas - Rolled out

Setting for the default role of meeting attendee - a policy setting to allow the default for meetings to be Educator is “organizer” and students are “attendees” – Rolled out

Do not let students join meetings unattended based on meeting creation policies – Coming this summer

Supporting educators and students with new classroom features

Class Materials available on Android – Coming in July

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ax3HQ4NYjc - Rolled out

Assign a OneNote page into a nested Section Group – Rolled out

Minecraft Share to Teams for Assignments – Coming in June

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZOD7IyQucE – Available now with new experience coming for fall

New integrations with top EdTech partners

Kahoot! is now available as an app in Teams – Rolled out now

Prezi is now available as an app in Teams – Rolled out now

Grade Sync comes to Infinite Campus Student Information System (SIS), and in the fall all OneRoster compatible SISs

Resources for educators

A how-to video or short webinar are convenient ways to learn directly from trusted experts. Below are a few that we recommend to help you quickly ramp up on Teams meetings.

Getting Started with

Teams for Education Quick Start Guide (PDF) overview that includes meetings and calls

Teams for Education Quick Start Guide for Students (PDF)

Teams for Education Quick Start Guide for Educators (PDF)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiluTszfwwMI9N-ZNqxlsqiSJ7yYQL8fu

Teams for Education video playlist

We’ve put together a few playlists to let educators quickly learn more about Microsoft Teams for Education. You can access our entire https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiluTszfwwMKicAo6agloFALEB5WvYNYs for more training, as well as this https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdHjJccRYryNlNxlFJO7XiHVdr8ah5c_7 from Microsoft Education Product Manager Mike Tholfsen. Bookmark both so you can reference at any time.

These playlists are designed for you to quickly master tips for teaching in Teams. Below is a great Assignments video from our Teams EDU playlist with the #eTwinz, Alberto and Mario Herraez!

Webinar - Teams meetings for the classroom – what to use now, and what is coming soon

Gordon Chang from our product group demonstrates Teams meetings and discusses the future roadmap in this https://youtu.be/W-La0cigkqg (you can also review the https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=...Tk4MzYz&event=video_description&v=W-La0cigkqg).

IT admin guidance

We want you to be aware of and familiar with the different policy settings for Teams as you deploy. Here are two essential articles that all IT Admins should reference to get the most out of Teams meetings.

IT Admin guidance for setting up meetings

Explore the new IT Admin policy packages for remote learning and other education personas

Manage meetings policies in Teams

As we work to improve the Teams meetings experience for instruction, our top commitment is reliable service delivery to each school and university using Teams. We are also prioritizing features that ensure student safety by making it easier for educators to manage their online classes in Teams meetings.

Thank you again for making time to share your remote learning experiences with us! It is through your feedback that we can build a more useful education tool. Please continue to share your feedback and ideas through UserVoice and feel free to track all of these features on the public roadmap. We’ll continue to share updates on what we’re working on and what you can expect in the weeks to come.

Mike Tholfsen
Microsoft Education Product Manager
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Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...o/ba-p/1457748

Brink · Jul 31, 2020

10 new features for going Back to School with Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Education gets to do something pretty incredible every day: work with educators across the world to create engaging classroom experiences. At the heart of our products is the brilliance that teachers and students always bring to the table.

So, for Back to School 2018, we’re returning some of that infectious learning energy with some very exciting updates in Microsoft Teams for Education. Thanks in huge part to the tireless work and feedback of teachers and students across the world, #MicrosoftEDU is thrilled to announce 10 fresh new features in Teams for the upcoming school year (and beyond *Smile).

And don’t forget, teachers and students can get started with Teams for free as part of Office 365 Education.

1. Rubric grading now available

Introducing an all-new way to increase transparency in assessment:

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Giving educators the tools to provide great feedback means everything to us. So, when it comes to rubric grading, we listened to how important it was to you – and made it happen. Rubric grading is now available to every educator! Built directly into Teams for Education, rubric grading helps increase assignment transparency for students and allows you to give more meaningful feedback.

These feedback mechanisms not only help students learn and improve their work, but they’re also a consistent and transparent way for teachers to grade. Now, inside of Teams, you can customize your grading criteria with your own rubric to enable skills-based grading of your assignments.

2. Mobile Assignments experience

We know mobile is huge for our students and teachers, so we’ve made a meaningful update to our iOS and Android apps designed to save students and teachers time. You can now access all your assignments directly when you launch the app and see a simplified list of upcoming tasks across all your classes. Students can work on their assignments directly on their phones and turn in.

Teachers can also create new assignments right from our apps, so it doesn’t matter if you’re on the bus or working from home. You can always keep your students up-to-date and on-schedule.

3. Archiving teams

If you’ve been using Teams for a while, you probably have some older teams piling up from the previous school year that you’d like to get out of the way. Instead of deleting the team altogether, you can now archive the team (essentially placing it in a frozen read-only state). This way, you can go back and reference what you covered last year any time you want. Learn how.

4. Reuse assignments – again (and again and again)

We love hearing from teachers that create assignments for their classes every day. And we know teachers using Teams have been creating millions of assignments. In doing this, they are fully building out their learning activities with instructions, attachments, and customization to share with their students.

Well, wouldn’t it be great if you could reuse these assignments over and over (and over and over) again? It would, which is why we’re so excited to introduce the ability to reuse assignments from current or archived Class Teams.

5. All-new Flipgrid app

Microsoft Teams has caught a serious case of #FlipgridFever (and the only prescription is more Flipgrid).

Just a couple days ago our friends took the stage at #FlipgridLIVE and announced the latest and greatest new features to create the perfect space for your students to share their brilliance. Check out the colorful, powerful, and emoji-ful *Cool Grids + Topics! Plus: see how you can unleash creativity with the new Flipgrid Recorder + Player.

We are truly #BetterTogether with the Flipgrid community. All these new features are built directly into your class, staff or PLC teams – you just need to add the Flipgrid app. Since Flipgrid joined Microsoft Education, we’ve made Flipgrid completely free for every educator and student in the world! Try it out today.

6. New Class and Staff Notebook Tab App

To help save teachers more time when using OneNote Class and Staff Notebooks inside Microsoft Teams, we’re releasing a few key updates. Teachers will enjoy the new and improved Class and Staff Notebook settings directly inside Microsoft Teams – just select “Manage Notebooks” in the tab menu. Plus, we’ve improved the Class Notebook toolbar and added a new Staff Notebook toolbar, specifically for staff teams. In addition, page distribution is now fully supported in the Teams desktop app!

7. Cloud recording

From faculty meetings to online office hours, built-in video meetings in Teams make collaboration easy, powered by Microsoft Stream. Ever wanted to record that meeting or online lecture? Now you can provide one-click meeting recordings with automatic transcription and timecoding, which also displays captions and lets team members search within the conversation, and play back all or part of the meeting.

8. Dark Mode

It’s easy on the eyes, and dark to the core. Dark mode is a dramatic new look that helps you focus on your schoolwork. Choose what’s best for you: the familiar light appearance, the new dark mode, or even high-contrast mode.

9. Immersive Reader in Teams messages (coming soon)

Teachers have been blown away by the power Immersive Reader has in helping to build confidence for emerging readers and for those who struggle to read grade-level texts. We’re thrilled to be bringing the Immersive Reader experience to Teams! Once Immersive Reader is added in the next few weeks, you will be able to use it with any message in Teams.

10. Forms in Assignments

Assignments in Teams is about to get a new best friend: Microsoft Forms. Later this month, we’re launching the Assignments + Forms integration, giving you the power to seamlessly distribute assessments through your Assignments app – then use Forms reporting for auto-grading, feedback, and scores.

Extra credit: Email digest for guardians/parents (coming soon)

Soon, guardians will be able to stay up-to-date with their student’s progress. The new guardian email digest provides a quick look of the previous week’s assignment progress (detailing the missing or completed work), plus the upcoming week’s assignments.

Woohoo! The love for Teams continues. We have even more announcements coming this fall, so be sure to follow @MicrosoftTeams, @MicrosoftEDU, or reach out with questions to me directly @justinchando!

Get started with Teams today, free for students and teachers.
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Windows 10: 25+ updates for Microsoft Teams for Education for Back to School July

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25+ updates for Microsoft Teams for Education for Back to School July

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