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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 :)
Sections distributed in Onenote are not seen in Teams
It seems to me that if a section is distributed using Onenote, not Onenote for Windows 10, it doesn't appear as a possible section to distribute a page related to an assignment in Teams. Previous sections distributed using Onenote for Windows 10 are all available. Bug or feature?
Using Read Aloud in Microsoft Edge
We are currently trying to use Read Aloud in Edge an notice that it is not reading some of the words properly or does not properly read equations in math courses. I there a way to have Read Aloud read alternative alternative text? I have tried using aria-label and aria-labelledby with no sucess.
PowerPoint live captions and subtitles competition
Our Global Office team were heavily involved in releasing the PowerPoint live captions and subtitles feature to Office Insiders on the Windows and Mac platforms. If you are using it in your classroom currently we would love to hear your thoughts on it! We will giving away charitable donations worth $100 on behalf of each of our 3 winners. Have a read of this blog post to learn more.
Suggestions for Inclusive Tools
Hello, I've been working with students and teachers with Microsoft Translator and using Office Lens to scan in documents to Immersive Reader. After using these products with the students, these are features that would be really helpful: Using Microsoft Translator, it would be very helpful if, when you take a picture of the document, page, etc., that you could listen to the words on the screen since they are not translated for you, such as Immersive Reader operates. Using Office Lens to scan documents, etc. in order to integrate with Immersive Reader, it would be very helpful if you could have Translate built into Office Lens so it could translate the document and then read it to you. OR have Translate be directly tied to Immersive Reader. Thank you, Jessica Stepaniak
PowerPoint limitations in O365
The past couple of weeks I've been showing teachers how to do these things with the desktop version of PowerPoint (see video) https://youtu.be/x5WWXLQdXcY Things like a clickable Table of Contents, Choose-Your_Own_Adventure, making comic strips, cropping pictures into shapes, animations, etc. They've loved it, but almost none of them can be done in the O365 version of PowerPoint. But they can all (except the animations) be done in Google Slides. Since our district has over 28,000 Chromebooks, theses teachers and their students will continue to "Go Google" to use these ideas. I'm trying to advocate for Microsoft over Google, but until PowerPoint in O365 gets more features, our district will keep looking the other way, and all the popular bloggers will continue writing about all the cool things you can do with Docs, Sheets and Slides.
