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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 is Mike 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 using our 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 to Assign a assignment to group of students with a specific tag and vote for it.Updates 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: http://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 at http://blog.flipgrid.com/news/flipgridlive2019Announcement: 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 http://aka.ms/classroomsetup right now or (for a limited time) http://aka.ms/sdsconfirmation to receive free one-on-one help directly from Microsoft. Back in April, we https://blogs.office.com/2016/04/14/announcing-new-experiences-for-teachers-and-students-in-office-365-education/ new experiences for education and we’ve been humbled by the enthusiastic response. Teachers have used http://classroom.microsoft.com/ and https://www.onenote.com/classnotebook 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 https://office.com/education. Read more on https://blogs.office.com/2016/08/18/back-to-school-with-microsoft-classroom-and-school-data-sync/.Golden Path for Education - Part 1a
What is Golden Path Golden Path was developed to simplify and enhance the security of deploying a Microsoft 365 tenant solution in education. It consists of three stages: Stage 1: Deployment Guides are available online at Golden Path. This stage includes: Baseline - Stage 1a Standard - Stage 1b Advanced - Stage 1c Stage 2: A Discovery/Assessment AI tool is used to expose the tenant's configuration and analyze it against the tenant's license configurations, tenant and service settings, Microsoft's general education recommendations, and customer requirements. Stage 3: Drift Configuration management helps understand changes made against the established configuration in the tenant. These changes can be reversed or modified before any breaches or irregularities create problems. Goals and Objectives for Golden Path Goals Develop prescriptive deployment guides that provide a centralized resource with education-specific scenarios to assist organizations in defining, managing, and organizing their tenant and appropriate applications. Reduce the overall complexity of tenant and service deployment. Establish baseline recommended pathways to facilitate a common and agreed-upon configuration based on subject-matter experts. Utilize AI technology to uncover and compare recommended settings against user requirements based on documented configurations. Implement phased configurations to aid customers and partners in understanding what they may not know or should consider during discovery to meet customer expectations. Highlight unused features and products to ensure customers fully leverage the potential and benefits of their purchased product licenses. Identify opportunities for partner participation in achieving customer goals and expectations based on customer requirements and Golden Path findings. Create an easy pathway for customer change management to enhance control, security, compliance, and privacy of tenants. Develop custom assessments to evaluate product entry for items such as Copilot, Defender, Purview, Intune, Zero-Trust, and Microsoft Entra ID. Objectives Deliver information for features available (used/unused) to users based on license model. Prescriptive recommendations based on education scenarios. - Present upgrade license opportunities from A1 to A3 to A5. Security analysis exposing gaps and issues proactively to allow modifications before it's too late. Promote partner access to customers that have defined gaps based on assessments and are requesting partner assistance. Better discovery and assessment analysis with new tools. Designed to be more self-serving customer and partner access management. Speed up user adoption for educators and IT Admins alike. Baseline Stage 1a Baseline is stage 1a in the overall development of the Golden Path for Education. It is based on a majority of licenses within the tenant at the Microsoft 365 A1 for Education level. It also is a set of recommendations for ALL Microsoft Education tenants. Navigation Golden Path has three folders in the navigations. Golden Path Baseline References Golden Path folder consist of the Golden Path overall review. It goes over the entire program and the how and why it is built. Currently there are two pages, Golden Path overview and Baseline Overview. Golden Path overview menu Golden Path overview Stages (Deployment Guides, Discovery/Assessments, Drift Management) Modules (Setup, Identity, Applications, Security, and Devices) Phases (Baseline(A1), Standard(A3), Advanced(A5)) Baseline Overview Steps for each phase (Setup, Identity, Applications, Security, Devices) Licenses that are included General information links List of links for all applications and products included with A1 license List of links for all features included with A1 license Baseline menu Setup Tenant setup is key to establishing a secure and valid tenant. Setup goes through domain assignment, administration, and service management. Overview - Review all the steps that are part of the setup phase section Step 1 - Create your Office 365 tenant account Step 2 - Configure Security Center admin settings Step 3 - Secure and configure your network Step 4 - Sync your on-premises active directory Step 5 - Provision users Step 6 - Sync SIS with School Data Sync (SDS) Step 7 - License Users Identity Establishing an identity via Microsoft Entra ID and establishing authentication methods, Single Sign-On, and user procurement methodologies. Overview - Review all steps that are a part of the identity phase Step 1 - Understand identity definitions Step 2 - Configure Microsoft Entra ID basics Step 3 - Consider education identity steps Step 4 - Consider identity applications Step 5 - Set up access to operation services Step 6 - Set up identity lifecycle Step 7 - Configure security in identity Step 8 - Manage access controls Applications Applications like Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange Online are the core to a Microsoft tenant. Getting these applications setup are essential to allowing users in education to access services and apps like Learning Accelerators. Overview - Review all steps that are a part of the application phase Exchange Online o Step 1 - Design an Exchange Online environment o Step 2 - Set up Exchange Online o Step 3 - Configure compliance and security in Exchange Online o Step 4 - Configure address books, shared mailboxes, and clients Microsoft Teams o Overview - What is Microsoft Teams for Education o Step 1 - Configure Microsoft Teams for Education o Step 2 - Configure Microsoft Teams policies and settings for education organization OneDrive/SharePoint - Overview o Step 1 - Plan your OneDrive and SharePoint Deployment o Step 2 - Share within OneDrive and SharePoint o Step 3 - Configure security and access controls in OneDrive and SharePoint o Step 4 - Compliance considerations with OneDrive and SharePoint Security and Compliance Security via each phase is essential to maintaining order and blocking access for bad actors. Along with security compliance/privacy considerations that are established to adhere to a multitude of local and government requirements worldwide. Overview Step 1 - Security Considerations Devices Managed and unmanaged devices are another key to helping secure the network and potential cyber-security considerations that enter the network via these devices. Overview Step 1 - Review device management structure Step 2 - Plan device management Step 3 - Configure settings and applications Step 4 - Deploy and manage devices Windows 11 features and tips References menu Mulit-tenant solutions - Architectural recommendations base on multi or large tenant solutions. Accessibility Deploy Office 365 applications Pooled storage management How do you use Golden Path? Golden Path uses deployment guidelines content that contain education scenario specifics. Golden Path has a linked path for each modules based on the phase (Baseline,Standard,Advanced). Users can follow the deployment content to establish or redefine the tenant configuration in order to enable additional services and products. What’s Next Go to https://aka.ms/gp4edu to access the first part of Golden Path. Part 1b (Standard -A3 content) NEXT Part 1c (Advanced – A5 content) Part 2 - We will create a mechanism to discover the tenant configuration settings and allow customers and partners the ability to qualify what is set to standard recommendation. Using AI to deliver user requirements against the configuration will allow additional paths to enable services and features that allow the user/customer to achieve their objectives. Part 3 – Deliver drift management solution for management of unrealized or understood changes that need to be approved or modified.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 here Create 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 command Install-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. Rich
Azure AD Group Based Licensing in Education. Will this apply to Staff, Students and Alumni?
Please note that I have previously posted this as 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, which is 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-portal 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-azure-ad-group-based-license-management-for-office-365-and-more/%C2%A0 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 folder per 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 the student 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.
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