Windows 10: Microsoft Teams for Education 20 updates, 7x7 video and Breakout Rooms

Brink · Jun 15, 2020

Over the last few months, schools and institutions have been working tirelessly to enable distance learning. Weâve 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 weâve heard from customers, and announced new features designed to support you and your class. If youâd like to read more, check out the Remote Learning Trends blog here. Or read on to learn the specifics of whatâs 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, whatâs 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 https://youtu.be/NjPapIyutHI. 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, whatâs 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 â available now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTrBTODvXSs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjPapIyutHI

Easily Change âMeeting Optionsâ in the Participant Panel

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

https://youtu.be/_jj0XgB-P84

Enriched classroom meeting experience â coming soon

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

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

Breakout Rooms â Coming this fall

Meetings attendee limit increasing from 250 to 300 â 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 âorganizerâ and students are âattendeesâ â Rolled out

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

Supporting educators and students with new classroom features

Class Materials available on Android â Coming in July

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

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

Minecraft Share to Teams for Assignments â Coming in June

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

New integrations with top EdTech partners

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

Prezi is now available as an app in Teams â 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

Weâve 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 â 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=https%3A%2F%2Faka.ms%2FRemoteLearningPPT-April172020&redir_token=bhB-EvWKrjSId_n_IuV-o0HPT9F8MTU5MDA4NDc2M0AxNTg5OTk4MzYz&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. Weâll continue to share updates on what weâre 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

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Brink · Jun 15, 2020

New Microsoft Teams Rooms July Update 4.0.105.0

Microsoft Teams Room app update 4.0.105.0 is now rolled out via Windows store. This app update includes various client and service features for Microsoft Teams Room devices.

App rebranding to Microsoft Teams Room

Skype Room System V2 app is now rebranded to “Microsoft Teams Room” as announced previously in this blog post. This rebranding brings room devices a step closer to alignment with Teams calling and meeting experiences and makes UI consistent across Teams clients for all your users. Apart from name changes in the store, this update brings Teams brand color, iconography and theme to Microsoft Teams Room devices.

Theme updates

With this update, Microsoft Teams Room devices console are updated to Microsoft Teams look and feel and themes only apply to Front of room displays but not on meeting room console. This greatly enhances readability of controls on the console as well as make sure color-contrast requirements for accessibility are met. We understand company branding on the console is important to our customers and we will enable adding company logo on console in future releases.

In meeting call controls

In meeting call controls for Teams calls/ meetings are now updated to using same familiar universal bar as in Teams PC/ Mobile clients. Please note that this is a Teams service-based rollout and doesn’t require client build 4.0.105.0. However, we recommend updating to newer client build so you can get latest Teams client bug fixes and updates.

Rate my call

We are also rolling out a call quality rating experience similar to the PC and mobile Teams clients after a call or meeting so you can let us know how your call went. This is a great way for participants to provide feedback about the quality of the audio and video of their calls and meetings to your company’s IT and to Microsoft. Microsoft uses this data to ensure that we continue to provide high quality calling and meeting experiences across the ecosystem of Teams personal and shared devices. This dialog dismisses automatically after few seconds if no rating was provided.

Microsoft Whiteboard support

We have also completed the rollout of Microsoft Whiteboard across Teams client including Microsoft Teams room devices. Microsoft Teams Rooms can now receive and render Microsoft Whiteboard on the front of the room displays when shared from PC/ Web/ Mobile Teams client. Support for starting a whiteboard session from Microsoft Teams Rooms will be added in future releases. If you have /or add touch front of room displays you can contribute to the shared Microsoft Whiteboard in the room to collaborate with remote participants.

To ensure you can use Microsoft Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams Rooms, make sure Microsoft Whitebaord Web is enabled for your tenant. Instructions here

In order to configure a front of room display as touch device (provided the display supports touch), you should login using Administrator account on Microsoft Teams Rooms device and then use settings for “Calibrate the screen for pen or touch input” to calibrate additional touch displays in the room.

Windows 10 version 1809 update

We are doing intensive testing of our software across our meeting room hardware to ensure a high quality reliable experience, therefore we do not recommend updating Microsoft Teams Rooms devices to Windows 10 Version 1809 due an compatibility issues found with Microsoft Teams Room client. We are actively testing Windows 10 Version 1903 and support for 1903 will be added in future releases.

Let us know what you think!

Try the new features on your Microsoft Teams Room and provide feedback via User Voice or vote for existing ideas to help us prioritize the requests. We read every piece of feedback that we receive to make sure that the Microsoft Teams Room experience meets your needs.
Public: Room Systems (42 ideas) – Microsoft Teams UserVoice

- Sohail Tariq, Program Manager, Microsoft Teams Rooms
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Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...te/ba-p/758164

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Brink · Jun 15, 2020

New Microsoft Teams Rooms July Update 4.0.105.0

Microsoft Teams Room app update 4.0.105.0 is now rolled out via Windows store. This app update includes various client and service features for Microsoft Teams Room devices.

App rebranding to Microsoft Teams Room

Skype Room System V2 app is now rebranded to “Microsoft Teams Room” as announced previously in this blog post. This rebranding brings room devices a step closer to alignment with Teams calling and meeting experiences and makes UI consistent across Teams clients for all your users. Apart from name changes in the store, this update brings Teams brand color, iconography and theme to Microsoft Teams Room devices.

Theme updates

With this update, Microsoft Teams Room devices console are updated to Microsoft Teams look and feel and themes only apply to Front of room displays but not on meeting room console. This greatly enhances readability of controls on the console as well as make sure color-contrast requirements for accessibility are met. We understand company branding on the console is important to our customers and we will enable adding company logo on console in future releases.

In meeting call controls

In meeting call controls for Teams calls/ meetings are now updated to using same familiar universal bar as in Teams PC/ Mobile clients. Please note that this is a Teams service-based rollout and doesn’t require client build 4.0.105.0. However, we recommend updating to newer client build so you can get latest Teams client bug fixes and updates.

Rate my call

We are also rolling out a call quality rating experience similar to the PC and mobile Teams clients after a call or meeting so you can let us know how your call went. This is a great way for participants to provide feedback about the quality of the audio and video of their calls and meetings to your company’s IT and to Microsoft. Microsoft uses this data to ensure that we continue to provide high quality calling and meeting experiences across the ecosystem of Teams personal and shared devices. This dialog dismisses automatically after few seconds if no rating was provided.

Microsoft Whiteboard support

We have also completed the rollout of Microsoft Whiteboard across Teams client including Microsoft Teams room devices. Microsoft Teams Rooms can now receive and render Microsoft Whiteboard on the front of the room displays when shared from PC/ Web/ Mobile Teams client. Support for starting a whiteboard session from Microsoft Teams Rooms will be added in future releases. If you have /or add touch front of room displays you can contribute to the shared Microsoft Whiteboard in the room to collaborate with remote participants.

To ensure you can use Microsoft Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams Rooms, make sure Microsoft Whitebaord Web is enabled for your tenant. Instructions here

In order to configure a front of room display as touch device (provided the display supports touch), you should login using Administrator account on Microsoft Teams Rooms device and then use settings for “Calibrate the screen for pen or touch input” to calibrate additional touch displays in the room.

Windows 10 version 1809 update

We are doing intensive testing of our software across our meeting room hardware to ensure a high quality reliable experience, therefore we do not recommend updating Microsoft Teams Rooms devices to Windows 10 Version 1809 due an compatibility issues found with Microsoft Teams Room client. We are actively testing Windows 10 Version 1903 and support for 1903 will be added in future releases.

Let us know what you think!

Try the new features on your Microsoft Teams Room and provide feedback via User Voice or vote for existing ideas to help us prioritize the requests. We read every piece of feedback that we receive to make sure that the Microsoft Teams Room experience meets your needs.
Public: Room Systems (42 ideas) – Microsoft Teams UserVoice

- Sohail Tariq, Program Manager, Microsoft Teams Rooms
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Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...te/ba-p/758164

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Brink · Jun 15, 2020

Microsoft Teams Rooms May 2020 update

The impact of COVID-19 has dramatically changed how we work today, with a monumental number of organizations working from home. While physical meeting rooms may not be a focal point for many right now, there are still organizations and industries whose essential workers continue to rely on these spaces during this time. We also recognize the vital role Microsoft Teams Rooms will play when organizations return to work. To this end, we want to share the latest update for Microsoft Teams Rooms, app version 4.4.41.0, now available on the Windows store and coming to every Microsoft Teams Room over the next few weeks.

This release contains the following features:

Modern authentication support

Microsoft Teams Room administrators can now configure Microsoft Teams Rooms to use modern authentication to connect to Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Skype for Business services. Although Microsoft Teams Rooms already communicate over encrypted channels (such as TLS 1.2), using modern authentication reduces the need to send passwords over the network, leveraging tokens provided by Azure Active directory. To help reduce the potential attack surface, Microsoft Exchange Online will disable basic authentication in the future, as announced in the blog “Improving Security – Together”. Modern authentication support for Microsoft Teams Rooms will help ensure business continuity for your devices connecting to Exchange Online.

In light of COVID-19, and to reduce potential impact for existing on-premises customers who may need time to plan and implement hybrid modern authentication, turning on modern authentication will be manual. To learn more about how to set up and use modern authentication, follow the guidance published in Authentication in Microsoft Teams Rooms.

Application splash screen

The new application splash screen improves the startup experience when a Microsoft Teams Room device wakes up from an idle state or the device reboots. This provides end users with a more visually appealing experience while the device loads.

Project content to one or both front of room displays

For configurations with dual front of room displays, we now provide the flexibility to project content to only one display when using an HDMI cable to present outside the context of a meeting. Meeting Room administrators can apply this setting via an XML configuration file. Learn more about using the XML configuration file in the documentation titled “Manage a Microsoft Teams Rooms console settings remotely with an XML configuration file”.

Support for dynamic emergency calling for Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams Rooms now supports dynamic emergency calling and provides an updated calling experience tailored to emergency policies set by Microsoft Teams administrators. During an emergency call, both the console and front of room displays will show the phone number and location associated with the Microsoft Teams Room. Using emergency policies configured by Microsoft Teams administrators, the emergency call can be routed to specific emergency numbers. Learn more about emergency calling in Manage emergency calling.

Open Source Software (OSS) notices in device settings

Room administrators can now easily access Microsoft Teams third-party software notices on the Microsoft Teams Room console. Administrators can see these notices in Settings, under the About tab. Notices can also be viewed through the Microsoft Teams desktop application.

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