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Welcome to the Inclusive Classroom community for Microsoft Education!
Hi everyone, we're excited to now have a space dedicated to Inclusive Classroom for EDU. My name isMike Tholfsen, and I'm Principal Product Manager on the Microsoft Education product team in Redmond, WA. This community is a place for you to ask questions about others' experiences, share ideas, learn best practices, hear about product updates, collaborate with others usingour Inclusive Classroom technologies, and have direct interaction with the product and engineering teams. We're so excited you've joined us and look forward to your posts and contributions to the community. If you have any questions about the community, please ask them below :)Helpful Microsoft Education Training and Resources
Hi folks - for those looking for helpful resources, training, tips, tricks, for our Education products, here are some nice links across many products and services to check out. MicrosoftEDU: https://aka.ms/MicrosoftEDUWakelet OneNote: https://aka.ms/OneNoteWakelet Teams EDU: https://aka.ms/TeamsWakelet Inclusive Classroom: https://aka.ms/InclusiveClassroomWakelet Learning Tools: https://aka.ms/LearningToolsWakelet Translator: https://aka.ms/TranslatorWakelet Forms: https://aka.ms/FormsWakelet Sway: https://aka.ms/SwayWakeletWelcome to the Microsoft Teams for Education Community!
Hi everyone, we're excited to now have a space dedicated to Microsoft Teams for EDU. My name is Justin Chando, and I'm Principal Product Manager on the Microsoft Education product team in Redmond, WA. This community is a place for you to ask questions about others' experiences, share ideas, learn best practices, hear about product updates, collaborate with others using Microsoft Teams for Education, and have direct interaction with the product and engineering teams. We're so excited you've joined us and look forward to your posts and contributions to the community. If you have any questions about the community, please ask them below :)
Expanding the use of Team Member tags
Currently you can assign team member tags to group the members for group chats. I would like to use the tags to be able to assign assignments to different groups of learners, instead of picking them out individually from the class list. Currently there is such an idea at the Microsoft Teams Uservoice, but it hasn't attracted many votes. If you support the idea, please go toAssign a assignment to group of students with a specific tagand vote for it.Announcement: Back to school with Microsoft Classroom and School Data Sync
It’s back-to-school time in the U.S. and many other countries, and we’re excited to invite you to the Microsoft Classroom Preview and the School Data Sync (SDS) Preview. IT admins can visit the preview instructions right now or (for a limited time) sign up to receive free one-on-one help directly from Microsoft. Back in April, we announced new experiences for education and we’ve been humbled by the enthusiastic response. Teachers have used Microsoft Classroom and OneNote Class Notebooks to spark student creativity and enable more productive, collaborative classrooms. Schools and partners around the world have jumped on board to use School Data Sync, the easiest way to provision online classrooms in Office 365 Education. Read more on Office Blogs.Teams Admin: Creating Bulk Class Teams using PowerShell and a CSV file
For Your Information: I have successfully created Class Teams using PowerShell and a CSV file. This is very handy because you can have a whole list of teams, channels, teachers and students in a CSV file making creating a large number of teams a snap. I have attached a PowerShell module and a sample CSV file. The method is similar to what is found hereCreate teams in Microsoft Teams through CSV using PowerShell | JiJi Technologies, though there are a few small differences. I did not write the script, I found it online - but I cannot remember where. I made a few minor changes where the original script gave errors.In the spirit of sharing, I have attached it here. Basically you need to have PowerShell 5.1 and install the current MicrosoftTeams PowerShell module (in PowerShell) using the commandInstall-Module -Name MicrosoftTeams -RequiredVersion 1.1.6 (that being the current version as of this writing). You need to run PowerShell as administrator. Prepare your CSV file using the example I have attached. Import the PowerShell module I have attached and run the function New-TeamsFromCSV. Watch your computer do all the hard work while you relax!A Way for Students to see their current average score in Teams?
Hi Community, Is there a way for students to see their current average score in the Teams Grade tab? They can see their individual grades for assignments, but looks like they have to do the math themselves to get an average? Anyone find something I'm missing? Another question I hesitate to ask, because it seems like such common sense I must be missing something. Thanks for taking a look. RichUpdates to Flipgrid: FlipgridAR, NEW Recorder, Immersive Reader Transcripts, and MORE!
On August 1st, we're releasing the all-new Flipgrid with tons of new updates and features including: FlipgridAR (EARLY RELEASE: LIVE NOW): transform family nights, homework, school events, book reviews, Science Fairs, student art galleries, language classrooms, the entire school, ANYWHERE by “sticking” student voice everywhere with FlipgridAR codes. Find out more:blog.flipgrid.com/news/ar Brand new Flipgrid Recorder: live inking, text and emoji stickers, unique video styles, whiteboard/blackboard mode, the ability to stitch together and rearrange unlimited segments, and more! Immersive Reader Transcripts: the incredible Immersive Reader will be available on all Flipgrid Topic prompts AND with all Flipgrid video transcripts (which are automatically transcribed after videos are submitted by Microsoft Azure). New Disco Library: grab launch-ready discussion prompt Topics from 1,000s of educators around the world AND new partner Topics from Code.org, Wonderopolis, Find Your Grind, MSN Kids, Microsoft HackingSTEM, Skype in the Classroom, and more! These are just a few of the updates launching on August 1st: check out the summary and all the announcements from the FlipgridLIVE broadcast atblog.flipgrid.com/news/flipgridlive2019Azure AD Group Based Licensing in Education. Will this apply to Staff, Students and Alumni?
Please note that I have previously posted thisas a ‘reply’ to the announcement of the feature https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Directory/Azure-AD-group-based-license-management-for-Office-365-and-more/m-p/57595#M304 - I apologize if this is some sort of cross posting breach. Greetings all, My question is specifically in regards to end user licensing in the Education Sector, whichis needed to use Azure AD Group Based Licensing. Going by Source 1, all users who inherit a license via the group based licensing model will need an Azure AD Basic license (not Azure AD Free). Going by Source 2, this will change once the functionality reaches GA. Once this happens, "it will be included in Office 365 Enterprise E3 and similar products." As Education licensing differs from the standard Enterprise E3, will this functionality be included at no cost for Student and Alumni licensing? As you can imagine, a large University will have hundreds of thousands of Alumni and tens of thousands of Students. Having Education E3 include the Azure AD Basic licensing / eligibility for Azure AD Group based licensing for $0 will help for Staff, but if Azure AD Basic licensing is not included for Alumni and Students, the Education sector will not be able to afford to use this awesome functionality. Can someone please provide clarity, and preferably a link to a valid Microsoft site, on how Azure AD Group Based Licensing and Azure AD Basic will apply to Staff, Students and Alumni. Source 1 - Link - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-licensing-whatis-azure-port... Features – During public preview, a paid or trial subscription for Azure AD basic or premium editions is required in the tenant to use group-based license management. Also, every user who inherits any licenses from groups must have the paid Azure AD edition license assigned to them. Source 2 - Link -https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2017/02/22/announcing-the-public-preview-of-a... It contains the following statement: "While group-based license management is in public preview you will need an active subscription for Azure AD Basic (or above) in your tenant to assign licenses to groups. If you don’t have one, just sign up for an Enterprise Mobility + Security trial. Later, when this functionality becomes generally available it will be included in Office 365 Enterprise E3 and similar products."How to test drive Microsoft Classroom and SDS as a partner?
I got word from our Dutch Microsoft representative that Microsoft Classroom and School Data Sync are available in preview. These two solutions only work in O365 EDU tenants. So I first tried a demo tenant from https://demo.microsoft.com and I tried to set up a trial but with both the environments I got a message that I could not use it with that tenant (when trying to sign up for a preview using instructions that I obtained from https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-Microsoft-Classroom-Preview-and-School-Data-Sync-Preview-to-your-Office-365-Education-subscription-04df0f05-e91f-49cb-88ee-17a247ede5a7?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US Can someone point me to how I, as a partner, can try the product setup for these new features?
Problems with custom audio setup on teams.
I have been using teams for my school for the past 3 months. Until recently I used to have a custom setup for my audio devices where I would use my Bluetooth Boat Airdopes 441 as the output and my Headset Microphone (plugged in through the 3.5 mm jack) as the input. However since a week this setup has stopped working. The moment I do this setup, I stop hearing the meeting. The only way my earphones work is when both the Audio input and output are from the headphones. However when I use my speaker as the output, it works perfectly. (Refer Screenshot). I am on Windows 11 and using teams for work and school version. Also this setup works perfectly on Discord and Zoom so there isn't a problem with the headphones or the microphone.Microsoft Teams Assignments and SharePoint Documents
SharePoint and Assignments You probably know that documents that students upload to Assignments are stored in SharePoint. You can open that location in SharePoint Online,by going to the Files tab of the relevant team and choosing "Open in SharePoint". You then need to navigate to Site Contents and Student Work. You will see there are two folders: Submitted files and Working files. In each of these is a folder for every learner and in every learner folder is a folderper assignment. Syncing What I do, is I sync the Student Work folder to my device. It then appears as a folder structure in my File Explorer. I have the choice to either leave the documents in the cloud or make them available on my device. The difference between Submitted files and Working files is that when a student uploads a document to an Assignment, it goes into the Working files folder. The learner can still open it (in Teams Assignments or in SharePoint) and make changes. Once the student has clicked on the Turn In button, it is copied to the Submitted files folder and no longer allows any changes. User Scenario The User Scenario where this can be beneficial is as follows: Students can upload their documents to the Assignment even while it is a work in progress. During that time both the learner and the teacher can have access to the file and basically 'collaborate' on the document. This allows a teacher to make ongoing comments to the document to provide formative feedback. When thestudent is ready to submit he/she Turns In the document. Even after submission the teacher can still make comments on the document and the student can still open it and view the comments, but can no longer make changes. I have a research project that learners work on for the duration of the school year. They need ongoing input to keep them on the right track. I'm going to use the method I have outlined above to provide them with that feedback.New Governance Resources for Microsoft Teams for Education
Hello Microsoft Teams for Education Community! We've published a guide for Education admins on top questions related to governance and lifecycle management. This guide includes resources and best practices to help you manage Teams, what happens at the end of the semester, and how to monitor what's happening in your tenant. You can check it out here:Microsoft Teams for Education Governance Guide Please reply with your feedback and questions!
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