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📣 Last Call: Help Shape the Future of AI Skills Navigator for Higher Ed
We’re finalizing upcoming AI Skills Navigator Customer Feedback Sessions and are looking for a few MSLE educators to join a live focus group with our product team. This is a unique opportunity to: ✅ Preview AI Skills Navigator before broader rollout ✅ Share real-world classroom and curriculum use cases ✅ Influence how AI skilling experiences are designed for higher education ✅ Provide direct input that helps shape upcoming product capabilities If you're interested in how AI can better support your students — this is your chance to help guide what comes next. 🕒 What to Expect Live demo of AI Skills Navigator Facilitated discussion with the product team Open forum to share feedback from an educator’s perspective Time commitment: 1 hour Participation logistics will be shared with selected volunteers. 👉 Interested in joining? Please complete the Learning Product Customer Connections Participant Opt-in Form Selected participants will be contacted by Ifrah, Customer Experience Program Manager, with next steps this week. Spots are limited — we hope to hear from you! — The AI Skills Navigator Product Team📣 Call for Volunteers to participate in a focus group on AI Skills Navigator
We’re looking for volunteers to join an upcoming AI Skills Navigator Customer Feedback sessions! Share feedback, influence product direction, and help shape how AI Skills Navigator supports educators and students. What to expect Demo of AI Skills Navigator A facilitated discussion with the AI Skills Navigator product team Opportunities to share feedback on educator use cases Early insight into where AI Skills Navigator is headed for higher education 📅 Session details: Participation logistics will be shared with selected volunteers. Time commitment: 1-hour 👉 Interested? Please fill out Learning Product Customer Connections Participant Opt-in Form. Ifrah, the Customer Experience Program Manager, reach out to you with the next steps during the week of April 20th. Thank you for helping us build better skilling experiences for educators and learners! — The AI Skills Navigator Product Team
New resource for MSLE educators: A research informed guide to generative AI
Announcing a new resource for MSLE educators (and anyone supporting research): The Academic Researcher’s Guide to Generative AI: Methods and Prompting with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. This is a practical, research-informed guide for faculty, graduate students, and research staff who want to use generative AI as an assistant and tool for thinking—without compromising scholarly integrity. Guide sections include - Foundations + limitations: how generative AI works and why critical engagement matters Robust prompting as a research skill (clarity, structure, and documentation) Workflow-ready use cases you can run in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (any license level), with an emphasis on transparency and disclosure For departments or research groups seeking a common reference for responsible AI‑assisted research practices, this resource provides a useful starting point and can be accessed through the link provided.April 2026 MSLE Newsletter available now!
Head over to the blog section and read the newest edition of the MSLE Newsletter, also available in Arabic, Chinese (Traditional), French, Portuguese, and Spanish From the Microsoft Learn for Educators community page, select Blogs from the top navigation menu. There, you’ll find the Microsoft Learn for Educators News blog where you can find the newsletter. Additional language versions can be found as attachments to the blog.
GMSA Password length
Hi All, Hope you are doing well! Do we have any official document from Microsoft that tells how many characters would be used for a GMSA account password? I understand that 240-byte, randomly generated passwords will be used; however, I would like to understand how many characters would be used in 240 bytes. Thank you in advance! Regards, Sajin P S
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I am trying to move rows containing "Click to chat" from an Excel sheet to a new sheet and delete the blank rows. The code below is giving me an error to debug, and the line below in bold is highlighted. I don't know what to do. Can you assist? Sub MoveClickToChatRows() Dim wsSource As Worksheet Dim wsTarget As Worksheet Dim lastRow As Long Dim i As Long Dim targetRow As Long Set wsSource = ActiveSheet Set wsTarget = Sheets.Add wsTarget.Name = "Click_to_Chat" lastRow = wsSource.Cells(wsSource.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row targetRow = 1 ' Copy header wsSource.Rows(1).Copy wsTarget.Rows(1) targetRow = 2 For i = lastRow To 2 Step -1 If InStr(1, wsSource.Rows(i).Text, "Click to chat", vbTextCompare) > 0 Then wsSource.Rows(i).Copy wsTarget.Rows(targetRow) wsSource.Rows(i).Delete targetRow = targetRow + 1 End If Next i End Sub
findMeeting REST API does not support shared mailbox?
I'm building a bot using the MS Outlook Calendar REST APIs. I have a case where my user who is an executive assistant wants to create a meeting in the delegate mailbox she/he have access to. We are currently using findMeeting API to fetch the available for a set of users and this works perfectly for the logged in user. But, when we try to access the shared mailbox calendar using this API, it shows unsupported scenario. We do have Calendars.Shared .Read permissions. /me/findMeeting - works /user/{sharedmailboxEmailId}/findMeeting - gives Unsupported Scenario error. Is this functionality not working? Couldn't find any document mentioning this. Alternative API getSchedule doesn't work in our case. Thanks in Advance!
Multiple education institutions for one account
Hello, I work in two places (both are educational institutions), and through MSLE I deliver classes to high‑school and university students. Is it possible to assign two school names to one MSLE account? I would like to be able to select the correct institution hereMSLE AI Bootcamps
Greetings, I am wondering if anyone here has delivered training geared or related to MSLE AI Bootcamps specifically the Copilot Prompt-a-thon and Generative AI for Teaching. I'd like to know the experience to expect from such a delivery and an estimated preparation time, labs, etc. For reference, let's say you have to deliver Microsoft Copilot Prompt-a-thon Workshop for Higher Education Leaders for a client in person. Thank you for your inputs !Call for Volunteers – Focus Group for New AI-900 Simulation
We’re excited to invite you to help shape the future of the AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals course. We’re seeking volunteers to test the new AI-900 simulation lab environment and share feedback on content alignment, student readiness, usability, and how simulated labs compare to traditional live, hands-on labs. If you’re interested in participating in a live virtual focus group, please complete this Microsoft Form. We’ll collect your name, institution, and institution email so we can follow up. A member of our team will reach out soon with next steps. Thank you for your continued support of the Microsoft Learn for Educators community. Your feedback plays a critical role in improving learning experiences for educators and students alike.Azure For Students Subscriptions - "Your email domain is not currently registered with us"
Hello, I am a teacher at a vocational school and we are experiencing a recurring issue with Azure for Students academic verification, affecting multiple students at the same time. Our school setup (for context) Our institution is structured as follows: We have a student domain that is registered and whitelisted with Microsoft as an academic domain, for example: email address removed for privacy reasons We also have a separate organisational domain used for staff and business operations, for example: email address removed for privacy reasons Students are instructed to: Sign in to Azure using their personal Microsoft account (typically Outlook/Hotmail) Use their school email address only for academic verification during the Azure for Students sign-up flow This setup has worked historically, but we are now seeing repeated failures. The issue we are seeing Students complete CAPTCHA and email verification successfully. The process then fails with: “Sorry, your academic status could not be verified.” or similar This happens even when: Students use a private/incognito browser session VPNs and ad blockers are disabled Only one Microsoft account is signed in No account switching occurs during the flow The issue affects multiple students from the same institution, often within the same timeframe. Because Azure for Students verification appears to allow only one attempt, students who fail once are effectively blocked and end up in a support loop. Observations Based on volume and timing, this does not appear to be individual user error. We suspect one or more of the following: A backend verification or account-linking issue An institutional configuration mismatch that is not clearly surfaced A generic or outdated error message that does not accurately reflect the real cause of failure At this point, I am not fully convinced that the error message always represents a true eligibility problem. What we are hoping to learn Are other schools using a similar setup (personal Microsoft account + separate student email domain for verification)? Are there known best practices or preferred configurations for institutions with multiple domains? Is there guidance we can pass on to our IT team to improve compatibility with Azure for Students verification? Is there a way for failed verifications to be reviewed or reset when the institution and domain are valid? Our goal is not just to fix individual cases, but to understand whether our institutional setup could be improved to prevent this issue going forward. Any insight from Microsoft staff or other educators would be greatly appreciated. RobinLBaldwin Mahlah_MurrayMissed today's community call? Access the recording here!
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