Did you ever wonder how your educational journey could have changed if you were offered a modern communication and collaboration platform to easily access training material, connect with other classmates and work together on the next presentation? Or, if you missed a course how would you learn about your teacher’s recent presentation or the source material they were advising on?
In a modern education world, there are several questions teachers often think about – like, how do they get hundreds of students to really work together as a team on and off campus? The answer is easier than you might think. That’s right, with Microsoft Teams, you have all you need right under your fingertips to digitize learning and education!
Microsoft Teams is a true game–changer in education and is rapidly becoming the number one tool schools, colleges and universities are now using to bring together conversations, content, assignments, and apps; so that staff and students alike can easily collaborate to achieve more. Through Microsoft Teams Students, teachers and staff can seamlessly work together, create content and share resources all from a single, easy-to-learn and simple to use platform.
Students, faculty and staff often face various collaboration and communication challenges when working together. To encourage the adoption of intelligent communications in schools and universities, Microsoft has developed Teams for Education and it comes with different, more education-specific features than the regular version. With education apps such as Class Notebook and Staff Notebooks, Teams streamlines everything you need for education into one platform.
Collaborative Classrooms
Designed specifically for education, the hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365 opens many opportunities for educators. It allows creation of collaborative classrooms that save teachers time and better engages students in modern learning, meaning that resources are readily available anytime and anywhere and they can work together on assignments or group projects. Here are some of the fabulous Teams integrations optimal for use with students:
- Communication – stay connected with teachers and peers through 1-1 chat and channel conversations.
- Assignments – create meaningful assignments, provide transparent guidance, and share rich feedback.
- Gradebook – Organise and track each class’ assignments and grades directly from a class team.
- Notebooks – create and store resources with OneNote in Teams.
- Third-Party Apps – customise your experience with Flipgrid, Turnitin, MakeCode, and other learning tools.
Streamline Staff Communication
Better still, Microsoft Teams optimises educators non-teaching time and truly enables flexible working by connecting staff in professional learning communities, whether this be for professional development or departmental organisation. Here are some of the Teams integrations optimal for use with staff:
- Collaboration – co-author files and share resources with built-in Office 365 apps.
- Communication – stay connected with persistent chat, channel conversations, and meetings.
- Personalisation – personalise Teams with your favorite education and organization tools.
- Notebooks – store planning resources or policies in the integrated Staff Notebooks.
- Meetings – transform whole staff or departmental meetings for flexible working with online interactive meetings which can be recorded alongside notes directly within Teams.
As an educator you not only can find all resources in one hub but you can also streamline your communication in a staff team to collaborate on district-wide operations and initiatives or connect yourself with other educators through professional learning communities. In addition to that, you simply bring together students, employees, and parents to organize school and after-school activities.
Built in Accessibility
With accessibility now at the forefront of Education, using Microsoft Teams will ensure you are covered. With seamlessly embedded Immersive Reader, users can consume content individually tailored to their own personal needs with no impact upon their ability to collaborate and co-author alongside peers or colleagues. In addition, the accessibility features now present in Teams meetings and combined with Microsoft Stream also ensures that live or recorded team meetings or lesson content is streamlined to meet accessibility needs as well.
Adding More Value to Your Educational Work
Best practice has shown how easy students respond to Microsoft Teams. By having everything students need to learn and interact in one single hub, students posts and engagements increased significantly. While Microsoft Teams offers a completely new way to keep the education and learning process as lively and interactive as possible many teachers are concerned about losing their direct line to their students and not having a spot for questions and proper feedbacks. That`s where Microsoft Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) comes into play and where integrated systems can easily close the gap. With this new kind of education bot in place students can open service tickets with their questions and get connected to their tutors.
Additionally, the bot tracks all question-answer pairings and fills a dynamic FAQ document that is also accessible from any mobile device. Within a short time, this process went from a zero configuration to a self-training A.I. also including material with QR codes to sort questions sent in by photos to the correct answer and tutors.
Digitally Transform Your Classroom Today
We at Prime Infoserv, working at the forefront of helping education institutions to transform their infrastructure to drive end-user satisfaction while minimizing IT spend. In order to remain attractive to new talent, it`s crucial to offer communications and collaboration solutions that enable a modern, productive environment – working from any device, any place without discontinuity and quality issues. Our Unified Communication and Collaboration specialists connect you with the tools to help you work as efficiently and effectively as possible, while getting the most value out of your IT investments both now and in the future.
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