Inclusive Classroom topics

🌟Reimaging Renewal: My Digital Vision Board for 2025

smtoth — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:53:48 GMT

As an educator and advocate for learner-centered support, I’ve always believed that clarity and emotional resonance can transform professional growth. This year, I created a digital vision board that blends intention, inspiration, and strategy—designed not just to motivate, but to guide my outreach, PD design, and documentation systems.

Each image, quote, and layout reflects a core value: privacy-first automation, human-first instruction, and resilient systems that empower both educators and learners. I’m sharing it here to spark conversation, collaboration, and maybe even a few new ideas for your own journey.

Let’s build something beautiful together—one vision, one workflow, one act of renewal at a time.

Digital_Vision_Board_America_Learns.pptx

💬 I’d love to see what’s inspiring you this season. If you’ve created a vision board—digital or analog—drop a link or screenshot below. What themes are guiding your work? What visuals keep you grounded? Let’s build a gallery of renewal, one board at a time.

Gender Equity in Digital Iiteracy

DidaPapa — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:21:03 GMT

Hi, all! To those caring for an inclusive classroom, this article might be interesting: https://doi.org/10.11114/SMC.V14I1.7871

Digital Transformation and Gender Equity in Higher Education: Insights from Algeria

By Konstantinos M Pitychoutis

Sections distributed in Onenote are not seen in Teams

Oddgeir Sværen — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 08:22:50 GMT

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

officeUser2022 — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 20:26:46 GMT

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

Stafford Quaid — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:20:06 GMT

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

Jessica Stepaniak — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 21:43:35 GMT

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

Editing with Learning Tools

tapb — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 14:57:41 GMT

The Learning Tools are fantastic. It's great to see them included in Word desktop now which means they can be used whilst editing too!

Unfortunately the page colours are limited to None, Inverse and Sepia. Is the plan for the full range of colours to be included?

PowerPoint limitations in O365

Matthew Nickerson — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 01:54:37 GMT

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.

Welcome to the Inclusive Classroom community for Microsoft Education!

MikeTholfsen — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 21:24:09 GMT

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 :)