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Microsoft survey branching

SandyG1 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:35:44 GMT

Branching issues here, I have 6 questions, i branched Q4 to a sub question Q4a, the issue is that 5 and 6 is hidden and only shows when 4a is open, i want 5 and 6 to be showing regardless of the branching in 4.
I have already tried the expected fix with the "Go To" as below

Q4 Option A → Q4a → Q5

Option B/C → Q5
Q5 → Q6 (normal flow)

But still not working, the form just stops at Q4 and only opens with options are selected showing Q4a , 5 and 6
How do i fix this?

Microsoft Showcase School and MCE Vouchers...

DiogoAzeredo — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:02:13 GMT

Hello Microsoft Tech Community,

My name is Diogo Azeredo, and I am the STEAM Coordinator at escolaglobal, a Microsoft Showcase School based in Portugal for over ten years.

We recently became aware that Microsoft had sent an email informing us about the possibility of requesting new vouchers for MCE (Microsoft Certified Educator) exams — up to two per educator — free of charge, until March 15th, by completing a form.

Unfortunately, due to a network intervention at our school that affected our email services, we did not receive this notification in time. By the time we were informed, the deadline had already passed.

Given these circumstances, I would like to kindly ask if there is any possibility to still request these vouchers, or if there is an alternative way to access this opportunity.

We would greatly appreciate any guidance or support you can provide on this matter.

Thank you very much in advance.

📣 Last Call: Help Shape the Future of AI Skills Navigator for Higher Ed

RobinLBaldwin — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:57:37 GMT

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

RobinLBaldwin — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:33:57 GMT

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

DarcyOgden — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:40:54 GMT

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!

RobinLBaldwin — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:27:05 GMT

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

sajinpottekkat — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:47:01 GMT

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

Need guidance with registering for Cloud computing courses

thompson1a — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:33:10 GMT

I would like to know which courses high school students take to be certified

Dúvidas de treinamentos

lenascimento5 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:25:50 GMT

Pessoal, bom dia!

Como faço para criar turmas de treinamentos para aplicar e conseguir renovar meu MCT futuramente ?

MSLE

CyberMeadows26 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:01:19 GMT

We just recently signed up for Microsoft Learn for Educators. There is some confusion on how we are supposed to use the platform to deliver course content to our students.

How do you deliver AZ-900? For example we are a community college and lets say we have a course called VIR-100 (intro to cloud) and we utilize an LMS Moodle. Do the students use Microsoft learn to complete the training or do we somehow integrate it with our LMS?
How do you register students for a course you are teaching such as AZ-900?
How do you grade the assignments? Or are you doing this by creating a mirrored assignment in the LMS and grading it there?
How do we view students in our online course if using Microsoft Learn?
Is there a video that covers most of these questions or slide deck? I didn't find much on YouTube.

Excel vba

FKanangila — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:39:51 GMT

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

MSLE AI Bootcamps

basile — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:46:06 GMT

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

RobinLBaldwin — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:27:31 GMT

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.

Institution Verification was rejected because of "Blocked" response from AVE

LorindaCullip — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:24:41 GMT

I applied with my personal email for the MS Learn for Educators program. I am a professor at Bridgewater College in Virginia. I gave my school email (.edu), and received the message "Unable to open a case to address error: Institution Verification was rejected because of "Blocked" response from AVE". I tried to open a case to report the issue and received the message: "An error has occurred while processing your request. Please try again later"

This has been happening for several days. I would like to be able to teach my student the AZ-500 curriculum. Please help, thank you

findMeeting REST API does not support shared mailbox?

RashmiRahul — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:59:57 GMT

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!

Azure For Students Subscriptions - "Your email domain is not currently registered with us"

CvWyk — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:52:05 GMT

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:

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_Murray

Missed today's community call? Access the recording here!

RobinLBaldwin — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:21:11 GMT

If you were not able to attend today's MSLE Community Call, you can access the recording here:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/s/gxcuf89792/attachments/gxcuf89792/microsoft-learn-for-educators-events/217/1/Microsoft%20Learn%20for%20Educators%20January%20Community%20Call-20260129_100145-Meeting%20Recording.mp4

Keep an eye on our events page for the date of our next call. We hope to see you there!

Stopcode 0x7B inaccessible boot device

AlyMds — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:21:49 GMT

I tried to boot my Dell Optiplex 3080 MT installed with Windows 11 pro from USB stick bootable to ESET SysRescue, it seem the PC did not liked it and display stopcode 0xB7 and its windows tsrt up repair did not help to fix it, I can manage to boot the PC from other device the SSD which is installed with windows 11 but not from the Windows 11 installed in the NVMe M2 neither from HDD which also has win 11 installed.

The partitions on the SSD read MBR and the partitions on the NNVME M2 and HDD read GPT, is it possible that the USB stick has changed the setting to read the DSSD partition MBR

What shall I do?

I feel that BIOS changes may be required.

Any help will be very much appreciated.

Join us for the MSLE Community Call TODAY!

RobinLBaldwin — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:17:29 GMT

Don't miss today's community call!

Date:  Thursday, January 29, 2026

Time: 10:00 - 11:00 AM PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)

Agenda: 

2025 MSLE recap
MSLE Faculty Spotlight
What's coming
Q&A with Community Managers

You can access the call details using this link: January MSLE Community Call

From the MSLE Community overview page select "Events" and then select "Microsoft Learn for Educator Events". Select "January MSLE Community Call" and from there you will find the Microsoft Teams link for today's call.

What are MSLE Community Calls?

Each MSLE Community Call provides a unique experience to learn about topics that impact you or your students and highlights the amazing work of the MSLE Community. You'll hear from rotating presenters including members of the MSLE Program Team, other groups at Microsoft, and fellow MSLE educators. All Community Calls are delivered in English with live captions available. All sessions are recorded.

Multiple education institutions for one account

Michal_Plawsiuk — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:42:26 GMT

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 here