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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 :)
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.
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.
