Let us help you with its guided tour.Introduction to Microsoft Education TeamsWe all know that Microsoft Teams is a chat-based workspace that brings in people, content, conversations and meetings in one place for hassle-free collaboration.But, what is Microsoft Teams for Education?Extending the capabilities of Teams, to bring in new features like – assignments, grades, quizzes, notebooks…with which remote learning can be achieved without any difficulties, Microsoft has introduced Office 365 for Education.By making use of Education Teams, an educational institution can create easy-to-access virtual classrooms, coordinate with institution staff, participate in professional learning community activities virtually, and whatnot that would be required in traditional classroom management.
This helps an institution to ensure an effective classroom management and student engagement irrespective of the adversities like the Covid-19 crisis has caused.Key features of Office 365 Education TeamsMicrosoft Teams for Education offers numerous features that are designed for powerful collaboration and communication.
A few of them are listed below.Online Meetings:Meetings are the keyway to collaborate in any kind of environment.
Meetings in Education Teams help teachers host online classes for students.Attendance Reports:The attendance report feature helps to view, track, and download the student’s attendance in online classes.Class Materials:Class Materials is a special folder available in the class team’s files space, to restrict the students from changing the content available in it.
Students will have read-only access to the files in it while teachers have full permissions.OneNote Class Notebook:OneNote class notebook is a digital note-taking app that can be used for various classroom activities especially to create and deliver interactive lessons.
Every class notebook comes with a personal workspace for every student, a content library for handouts, and a collaboration space for lesson plans and course content.Assignments and Rubric Grading:Assignments app helps the teachers to create, assign, review, and return the assignments and quizzes to the students and to give more meaningful feedback with help of built-in rubrics so that students correct their mistakes and improve their work.Breakout Rooms:Breakout Rooms helps in dividing classes into small groups in Microsoft Teams to make teamwork much easier.Whiteboard:Whiteboard is a shared digital canvas for students and teachers to get engaged with ideas and content.Teams template available in Office 365 Education:Microsoft Teams for Education offers 4 different types of workspaces to serve different purposes.
