One of the features of Office 365 you may not have heard of is Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams in Education gives a class of students and teacher(s) access to a shared notebook, assignment management and communication tools. Microsoft describes them as:
Microsoft Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, meetings, files and apps together in a single experience in Office 365 Education. Using Teams, teachers can move quickly and easily from conversations to content creation with context, continuity, and transparency. Teams addresses the unique needs of different groups and enables them to work together easily and get things done:
- Manage projects, tasks, and content using the applications that you use every day—all available in a single, custom workspace
- Stay in the know with real-time information and updates shared in persistent team conversations, private chats (these can be moderated, if needed), team meetings, and other channels
Support rich collaboration and seamless experiences with integrated apps from Office 365 like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote Class Notebook, and education partners like busuu, Canvas, Flipgrid, and Kahoot!
The good news is, all of your classes complete with students have already been created. You will find all of your classes under the “Teams” app. Just go to https://teams.microsoft.com and have a look around. For further reading, see here and here. There is also a good blog here.
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