What's new in Assignments: interactive lessons, localized content, and smarter AI tools
Assignments in Microsoft Teams and through the Microsoft 365 LTI app has shipped a set of updates that connect interactive learning content directly into the assignment workflow, improve content quality across English-speaking regions, and give educators more control over AI-generated output. All of these features are available now for every Microsoft Education license (A1, A3, A5) at no extra cost. Watch a quick walkthrough of all the updates: What's new in Assignments Learning Zone interactive lessons in Assignments Educators using a Copilot+ PC can turn any teaching idea into an interactive lesson — with slides, quizzes, and activities — using the Learning Zone app. Those lessons now connect directly into the assignment workflow. When creating an assignment, educators see a new Learning Zone resource option. Pick a lesson, and it's attached to the assignment. Students complete the interactive lesson right inside their assignment in Teams or through the LMS, without leaving. When they finish, scores sync automatically — the student's completion percentage becomes their assignment grade. A few things to know: You need a Copilot+ PC to create lessons. Students can complete them on any device. If you don't have any lessons yet, the picker will link you to download the Learning Zone app. Students can also open the lesson in the Learning Zone app on Windows if they prefer. Learn more: Add a Learning Zone lesson to an assignment Student feedback view update We've updated how students see feedback on returned assignments. The view now reorganizes to put what matters most front and center: Feedback, feedback resources, rubric, and grades take the main space. Instructions and resources collapse into side sections — still accessible, just not competing for attention. Before this change, students saw everything at once — feedback mixed in with instructions, attachments, and rubrics. Many students struggled to find the feedback you spent time writing. Now it's the first thing they see when they open a returned assignment. This is already active for everyone. Nothing to turn on. Standards alignment across Instructions and Rubrics Educators can now add educational standards directly to their assignment. When you use AI to enhance your instructions, it takes those standards into account. And when you generate a Rubric for the same assignment, it pulls in those same standards as input — so your instructions and rubric stay aligned without extra work. We've also made a few other improvements to AI Instructions: Describe changes to tweak the output. After the AI generates a suggestion, you can describe what you want changed in a text field and re-generate. Want it shorter? More scaffolded? Focused on a specific concept? Type what you'd like changed and get an updated version — no need to start over. Shorter, more focused suggestions. When you use Add Detail, Add Sparkle, Add Hints, or other enhancements, the output stays closer to what you actually need rather than over-expanding your instructions. Learn more: Standards in Assignments and the Teach module English locale support across Assignments and the Teach module in Microsoft 365 Copilot AI features across both Assignments and the Teach module in Microsoft 365 Copilot now support English (UK), English (Canada), and English (Australia) in addition to English (US). Language is automatically selected based on your browser language settings. If your browser is set to en-GB, the AI generates content using British English. If you've used Teach before, it defaults to your previously used language. You can switch anytime from the Language dropdown when creating content. We've also updated the age/year selection to match what's appropriate for each locale — so you'll see "Year 9" instead of "Grade 9" when using English (UK), for example. Resources Video walkthrough: What's new in Assignments Getting started with Learning Zone Add a Learning Zone lesson to an assignment Standards in Assignments and Teach Set Student AI Guidelines on an assignment Create an assignment in Microsoft TeamsCopilot Notebooks and Study guide now available to Copilot Chat users
Every student knows the feeling: the test is coming, the materials are everywhere— and the hardest part is not finding information, it is knowing where to start. There is a PDF from the teacher. Slides from last week. A Word document with notes. Each piece has value. But studying means turning all of it into something usable: what to review first, what connects together, what still feels fuzzy, and what to practice learning. That is why we are excited to share two updates for education. First, Copilot Notebooks is now rolling out to Copilot Chat users, available with Microsoft 365 Education licenses. Copilot Notebooks are AI-powered workspaces for a subject or group project built on reference materials—bringing together all context behind a topic in one place for you or your study group and Copilot to collaborate on. This addresses one of the top asks we have heard from Microsoft 365 Education customers: bring the power of Copilot Notebooks to the education licenses schools already use. This education expansion builds on the broader Copilot Notebooks announcement that brings Notebooks to all education and enterprise Copilot Chat users, including new ways to work with your own materials in Notebooks with mind maps, Study Guides, and coming soon - the ability to create Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. You can read that announcement in the broader commercial Copilot Notebooks blog. Copilot Notebooks are available in the Microsoft 365 Copilot web and desktop versions for Education users. Expect them to be available in Education tenants in the next two weeks. They will be available in OneNote in the weeks to follow. Get started: Find Copilot Notebooks located in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app waffle. Second, Copilot Notebook Study Guide is now generally available both for education and enterprise users. Study Guide is an AI-powered feature in Notebooks that turns the learning materials you provide into a complete, interactive study companion. Organized, editable, grounded in your references. Ready when you are. For Education IT admins - what you need to know Study guide lives inside Copilot Notebooks. Copilot Notebooks are available in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. Copilot Notebooks are located in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app waffle. With this update, Copilot Notebooks are available to Microsoft 365 Education A1, A3, and A5 users. Study guide is available for education users ages 13+. Student accounts need the right Age Group in Microsoft Entra ID, and K-12 students ages 13-17 need Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat enabled by an IT admin before they can use Copilot Notebooks and Study Guide. No additional deployment is needed for Study Guide. Study Guide is rolling out to enterprise and education customers starting June 11. It may take a few days to show up in your account. What Study guide does Study Guide takes the materials learners already have and helps turn them into a collection of organized study topics and activities of your choice. Drop in PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, or Excel files. Study Guide reads across those references, identifies the key ideas, and creates a multi-page study guide inside the notebook. The important part: it is grounded in the sources you provide. It is not pulling random facts from the internet. Summary pages and Topic pages include citations back to the original materials, so learners can check where information came from and return to the source when something needs a closer look. That matters for learning. It helps students stay connected to the actual course materials. It helps educators trust what students are practicing from turns citation-checking into a habit, not an afterthought. What is available in Study guide Study Guide creates materials that span all phases of learning: understand, practice, and test. Understand: deepen your knowledge of the material Summary page: Start with a high-level overview of the materials you added. The Summary includes an overview, why the topic matters, key topics, a glossary, common misconceptions, and citations back to the source materials. Topic pages: Study Guide creates deeper pages for the major topics it finds in your content. These pages work like mini-chapters that cover content across all your references. They include explanations, sub-topic deep dives, worked examples, questions that make you think critically and analyze concepts, short exercises, and citations throughout. Practice: strengthen recall, and make connections Flashcards: Study Guide generates interactive cards from the learner's materials. Learners can flip cards, use hints, and edit the set so the wording matches how they think about the concept. Fill in the blanks: Key terms are removed from important sentences, and learners choose from a set of distraction answers to complete sentences. It is especially useful for processes, and sequences of events where the order and relationships matter. Matching: Study Guide creates matching tiles that ask learners to connect related ideas: terms to definitions, causes to effects, structures to functions, or concepts to examples. Test: check what is sticking Quiz: Study Guide creates a Microsoft Forms-powered quiz with questions generated from the materials. Learners can answer directly from the page, review results, and see explanations for multiple-choice answers. Results are private to the learner unless they choose to share them. Every one of these formats is designed to move studying from passive review to active practice. Not just rereading or highlighting. Actually trying to remember, connect, explain, and check. Study Guide supports 21 languages at launch: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English (US), Estonian, French (Canada), French (France), German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmal, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Swedish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. That means students can study from the materials they already use, in the language they already learn in, without having to move everything into a separate tool. For educators A few ways you can bring Study guide to your students or use it yourself: Get started by taking the Microsoft Learn course. Available now at aka.ms/notebooksandstudyguidemodule Point learners to a specific study moment. "Before Friday's quiz, add this week's slides and generate flashcards" is more useful than "use AI to study." Encourage active practice. Flashcards, fill-in-the-blanks, matching, and quizzes help your students retrieve information from memory instead of only rereading it. Use citations as an AI literacy moment. Study Guide shows where information came from. That opens a natural classroom conversation about checking sources, verifying AI-generated content, and staying grounded in the material. Keep assessment separate from practice. Study Guide quizzes are for self-checking. They are not a gradebook, and quiz results are private unless a student chooses to share them. Keep building your own AI fluency. Study Guide is built with privacy, safety, and learner control in mind. Study Guide pages are private by default, stored in the learner's Microsoft 365 notebook, and can be edited or deleted by the learner. Prompts and outputs are not used to train AI models, and quiz results are private unless a learner chooses to share them. Get started Take the professional development course at aka.ms/notebooksandstudyguidemodule Learn more about Study guide Anoo Padte is Principal Product Manager for AI in Education at Microsoft.Making Academic Standards More Accessible
Why standards matter Academic standards are the shared language that connects curriculum, instruction, and assessment. When educators can easily access and apply them: Lesson planning becomes more intentional. You design instruction around clear learning goals rather than guessing what to cover. Assessment aligns with instruction. Quizzes, rubrics, and assignments reflect what students are actually expected to demonstrate. AI-powered tools become more relevant. AI-generated content is grounded in real curriculum expectations, not generic suggestions. Collaboration improves. Teachers across grade levels and departments can speak the same language about what students should know and do. How Microsoft Education uses standards Standards are woven into the experiences educators use every day. In the Teach module and Microsoft 365 LTI, educators can align lesson plans to specific standards by location, subject, and grade band, use the "Align to Standards" tool to refine lesson instructions, and generate quizzes and rubrics grounded in standards. In Assignments in Teams for Education and Microsoft 365 LTI, educators can tag assignments with curriculum expectations, build standards-aligned rubrics, and create a clear thread from instruction to assessment. Across AI-powered workflows, standards can serve as grounding data that helps make generated lesson plans, quizzes, and rubrics more relevant to real curriculum expectations. This reflects Microsoft’s broader approach to AI in education: using AI to support educators with useful, contextual assistance while helping institutions maintain alignment with their instructional goals, policies, and professional judgment. Educators can select standards by location, subject, and language. Expanding coverage through partnership with EdGate Making standards useful in digital tools globally requires more than a large catalog. It requires structured, machine-readable data, ongoing maintenance, and a partner with deep expertise in education standards. EdGate has spent years building and maintaining one of the largest catalogs of digitized standards in education technology. Microsoft partnered with EdGate to help make that infrastructure more accessible inside the workflows educators and institutions already use. Through this partnership, Microsoft has significantly expanded the set of standards EdGate offers, especially internationally. Together, we have grown coverage to include: All 50 U.S. states, including Common Core, NGSS, and state-specific frameworks 70+ countries, with international standards covering core subjects, vocational education, and qualification frameworks Hundreds of supplemental frameworks, from career and technical education to world languages and the arts We continue to expand coverage with new international standards rolling out regularly. EdGate offers access to over 5 million standard statements, aggregating and normalizing global standards for consistent delivery across platforms. Their capabilities include a comprehensive standards catalog, standards authoring tools used by ministries of education, API-based access for platform integration, and certified CASE 1.1 compliance. Microsoft and EdGate are partnering to make a select set of standards freely available to education institutions, lowering barriers for educators and developers who want to explore standards-aligned workflows without a commercial commitment. To expand the impact even further, EdGate is piloting a project in 1EdTech's CASE Global Ecosystem initiative, to demonstrate how interoperable, machine-readable frameworks can improve the discoverability, alignment, and portability of learning and credentialing data across platforms, institutions and borders. The CASE format: Why it matters CASE stands for Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange, an open standard from 1EdTech that defines how learning outcomes and standards are represented in a machine-readable, interoperable format. Why does CASE matter? Machine-readability: Platforms, AI tools, and learning management systems can read, search, and apply standards programmatically. Interoperability: Standards move between systems. An assignment tagged with a standard in Microsoft Teams can be understood by an LMS, a reporting tool, or a curriculum mapping platform without manual re-entry. Cross-region equivalence: CASE enables comparing and mapping standards across countries and frameworks. EdGate is a certified CASE 1.1 provider, meaning the standards they deliver to Microsoft (and to the broader ecosystem) follow this open, interoperable format. The expanded catalog we have built together benefits not just Microsoft's products, but the entire ecosystem of education technology that relies on structured standards data. A shared commitment to open standards Microsoft is proud to be a Contributing Member of 1EdTech, the organization that stewards CASE and other critical interoperability standards for education technology, including LTI, OneRoster, and Open Badges. By collaborating with fellow 1EdTech members like EdGate, we ensure that investments in standards infrastructure benefit educators everywhere, regardless of which platforms or tools they use. When standards are open, structured, and interoperable, everyone wins: educators spend less time on manual alignment, developers can build smarter tools, and students benefit from instruction that is intentionally connected to what they are expected to learn. What this means for educators Within Microsoft Education, you do not need to think about CASE or data formats to benefit from this work. What you will see is: More standards available in the Teach module and Assignments, covering more countries, subjects, and grade bands AI-powered experiences that are better grounded in your actual curriculum Less manual work translating curriculum documents into classroom materials We are committed to continuing this investment: expanding coverage, improving the experience, and working with partners like EdGate and the 1EdTech community to make standards-aligned teaching easier for educators everywhere. Helpful links Getting started with Teach Modify content: Align to Standards Microsoft Teams for Education Microsoft 365 LTI International standards currently available through EdGate Request additional standards in Microsoft Education About 1EdTech About CASE (Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange) Have questions or feedback about standards in Microsoft Education? Drop a comment below or submit a request through our Standards Feedback form.Set clear AI expectations for every assignment with Student AI Guidelines
The challenge: students don't know where they stand with AI Every educator has a different approach to AI in their classroom. Some want students using it freely. Others want AI limited to brainstorming or editing. Some assignments shouldn't involve AI at all. The problem? Students are left guessing. Educators have been piecing together workarounds — writing AI policies into assignment instructions, referencing school handbooks, or adding disclaimers to rubrics. None of these are built into the assignment itself, and students often miss them entirely. Student AI Guidelines in Assignments Student AI Guidelines give educators a structured way to set AI expectations directly inside an assignment in Microsoft Teams. When creating an assignment, educators now see a new option to set a guideline level with suggested text: Full AI use allowed. Students can use Copilot for any part of the assignment. AI for editing only. Students write their own work first, then use Copilot to polish, revise, or check grammar. AI for brainstorming only. Students can use Copilot to generate ideas or explore topics, but the final work should be their own. No AI. The assignment should be completed without AI assistance. Student AI Guidelines are available for all grade levels, on desktop and mobile. All students in the assignment see the same guideline. A note on what these guidelines are — and aren't. Student AI Guidelines are a communication tool, not a lockdown. They set clear expectations that students see in the assignment, but they don't technically block access to AI tools. They work the same way a teacher's verbal instruction does: "Here's what I expect for this assignment." The value is in making that expectation visible, consistent, and built into the assignment itself. These are starting points, not fixed rules. Each level comes with suggested text that educators can edit freely to match their school's policies, terminology, or classroom norms. If your school uses different language around AI use — or has its own framework — update the text to reflect that. The feature adapts to your school, not the other way around. Even if your school hasn't enabled Copilot, Student AI Guidelines give you a structured way to communicate AI expectations to students — whether that's encouraging responsible AI use or formalizing a no-AI policy. What students see When an educator sets a guideline, students see it in their assignment view — no hunting through instructions or attachments. The guideline card shows the educator's expectations and, for levels that allow AI use, a direct button to launch Copilot Chat. The Copilot launch button appears for students aged 13 and older at schools where an IT admin has enabled Copilot. If your school hasn't set up Copilot yet, check out the Copilot setup guide for IT admins to get started. If Copilot isn't enabled, students still see the guideline — just without the launch button. If no guideline is set, nothing changes — the student experience stays exactly as it is today. Save time: set a default and reuse across classes Two features help you avoid repeating setup work: Set as default. Any guideline level — including "No AI" — can be set as the default for all new assignments you create. If your school's policy is that most assignments should restrict AI use, set that as your default and you're covered. You can always override it on individual assignments when you want to allow more (or less) AI use. Import Settings. Once you've configured your Student AI Guidelines in one class, you can apply those same settings to other classes using Import Settings. This copies your guideline levels and custom text across classes so you don't have to re-create them each time. Learn more: Import Settings in Assignments and Grades. Why this matters This feature sits at the intersection of two things educators have been asking for: clarity around AI use, and an easy on-ramp to Copilot. Instead of competing with third-party AI tools through restriction, Student AI Guidelines give educators a way to channel AI use purposefully — on their terms, per assignment, with clear communication to students. Resources Set Student AI Guidelines on and assignment in Microsoft Teams Manage Student AI Guidelines in AssignmentsModel Mondays S2:E7 · AI-Assisted Azure Development
Welcome to Episode 7! This week, we explore how AI is transforming Azure development. We’ll break down two key tools—Azure MCP Server and GitHub Copilot for Azure—and see how they make working with Azure resources easier for everyone. We’ll also look at a real customer story from SightMachine, showing how AI streamlines manufacturing operations.Study and Learn Agent: your study coach, built for learning
It's 11 pm. A student is at the kitchen table with a chemistry problem they can't crack, an essay due tomorrow, and a quiz in the morning. They open their laptop, open an AI chatbot, and in thirty seconds, they have an answer, an essay, and a study guide. The thinking didn't happen. The grade might still come. That moment is why so many educators and IT leaders feel a knot in their stomach about AI in the classroom. The concerns are real, and we built with them firmly in view. Now picture the same student, same kitchen table, same 11 pm. This time the Study and Learn Agent is beside them. Patient. Tireless. Knows the material because the student is studying with their own notes. Asks the right question at the right moment. Pushes them to try first, then helps them see what they missed. Quizzes them. Introduces flashcards, fill-in-the-blanks and matching activities. Helps them build and check their understanding. The student does the thinking. The Study and Learn Agent coaches the thinking. Most students have not had access to that kind of support. Potential is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. Today, with the general availability of the Study and Learn Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, every student K12 and Higher Education with a Microsoft Education license can get personalized coaching when they need it, where they need it, at no extra cost. Study and Learn Agent is in the left navigation and works across any subject the learner is studying. It explains concepts, supports writing without doing the writing for the students, gives step-by-step coaching on problems, generates flashcards, runs quizzes, and creates activities to build and check understanding. The agent is designed to lead with a question so the learner stays in the driver's seat. It is available in English (US) and coming to additional languages in the coming weeks. ⚙️For IT admins — read this first Study and Learn Agent runs inside Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. For your K-12 students aged 13–17, Copilot Chat is OFF by default. You have to turn it on. Until you do, students in your tenant cannot access Study and Learn. The good news: Study and Learn is available to all licenses A1 / A3 / A5, and the agent is available from the left navigation bar of M365 Copilot app and in the Chat dropdown at https://aka.ms/studyandlearn. Action: Enable Copilot Chat for your 13–17 student group in the Microsoft 365 admin center using these resources: Full step-by-step video tutorial: https://aka.ms/enablecopilotchatvideo IT documentation: Education Tenant Identifier Student Age Groups 🎉What is available at GA Conversations that coach: Scaffolded conversations on any subject or topic K12 through HED for: Understanding concepts Working through step-by-step problems Getting writing support The agent recognizes the kind of help a learner needs and adapts the conversation accordingly. Soon, images will show inline in explanations to make abstract concepts concrete — especially for visual subjects like biology, geography, and chemistry. Practice activities that stick: Flashcards to learn terms and definitions, vocabulary, and recall facts Quizzes with multiple choice and open-ended questions with per-answer explanations Fill-in-the-blank for understanding how things work, or the sequence of connected events or facts in a process Matching activities that connect terms to definitions, causes to effects, concepts to examples — building the mental web that makes knowledge usable All activities are created with the learner’s own materials, or with just a topic name. Quizzes can also be created using a web-linked resource Students can chat with the agent during and after completing an activity to get immediate and remediation help with the agent still not giving away answers Responsible AI and data privacy: Study and Learn is built into the Microsoft 365 Education environment that schools already manage, giving IT administrators familiar controls and enterprise-grade data and privacy protection rooted in Microsoft's responsible AI principles. Students get a structured, accountable AI experience, and schools get a credible, learning-first option they can deploy with confidence. An AI literacy resource teaches responsible AI use from the very first interaction. Coming soon! Inline images: GA ships with links to images, images embedded in the flow of the conversation are coming soon Multiple languages: Study and Learn has been optimized for and Generally Available in English (US). Additional languages will become available in the coming weeks. Explanation and engagement callouts: Visual call outs for questions, tips and moments of persistence 💡Built on learning science The pedagogy is the product. The Study and Learn Agent is grounded in four research-based principles about what makes learning stick. They aren't a layer on top of the experience — they shape what the agent does in every interaction. Adaptive scaffolding: meeting students where they are by activating what they already know, then providing enough support to stretch them into what's next. In practice, this is why the agent opens a chemistry problem by asking what the learner already understands about molar mass — not by launching into a worked solution. It then tunes its support — worked examples, hints, or step-by-step guidance — to match. The result is a learner who stays productively engaged instead of overwhelmed or under-challenged. Productive struggle: asking before telling, so students retrieve, attempt, and reason their way toward answers. This is why the agent invites a first attempt before offering help, and why it surfaces a misconception as a question rather than a correction. Mistakes become data, not failure — the moments where actual learning happens. Active learning: practice that sticks, with retrieval-based activities including flashcards, fill-in-the-blanks, quizzes, and matching. The agent generates activities from the learner's own materials and lets them re-attempt the items they missed. Learners can pause during an activity and chat with the agent about a card they don't understand — building clarity in the moment, without the agent giving the answer away. Pulling knowledge out of memory, with feedback in the loop, is what builds durable understanding. Application and transfer: giving students the agency to go deeper, apply their learning, or reinforce it with an activity. This is why the agent invites learners to teach concepts back, apply ideas to new problems, and connect what they're studying to real-world contexts. It's the kind of work that builds flexible understanding beyond a single test. We built this with learning science researchers, cognitive scientists, and educators in the room from the beginning. 👩🏽🏫For educators The best way to understand what Study and Learn does differently is to spend a few minutes with it. Open it at aka.ms/studyandlearn and try it with your Microsoft Education account in the M365 Copilot app on a unit you're teaching next week. Take the professional development course at aka.ms/studyandlearnmodule to get a deep dive overview, and earn a badge! Most educators tell us this is the moment the design clicks — noticing where the agent asks a question instead of giving an answer. A few things educators in our preview have found useful: Pointing learners to it for a specific moment in an assignment can be more effective than a blanket "you can use this." Something as simple as "if you get stuck on problem 4, ask Study and Learn to walk you through it after you've taken a first attempt" tends to shape how learners engage. The activities lend themselves to specific moments. Flashcards before a vocabulary check. Matching for a unit on cell biology. A quiz the day before a test, with the agent's per-answer explanations as a self-review loop. The agent itself is a useful AI literacy artifact. Some educators use its behavior as a discussion starter — "notice that it didn't give you the answer? Why do you think that is?" — to open up conversations about how to use AI well. A short framing for learners helps a lot. Naming up front that the agent will ask questions before helping, push them to try first, and quiz them on what they missed — and why that's the design — shifts how learners engage. One small tip worth passing on: the more specifically a learner can name what's tripping them up, the better the agent can help. "I can't picture what's happening here" gives the agent more to work with than "I don't get it." Feedback shapes what we ship next. There's an OCV form linked from inside the agent, and educator input has driven much of the roadmap so far. 🫱🏼🫲🏾The bet For decades, the students who got one-on-one coaching outperformed the students who didn't. That gap was a function of access — who had a tutor, who had a teacher with bandwidth, who had a parent at the kitchen table. AI is the first technology in the history of education with a real shot at closing it. That's the bet we are making. AI as a coach. Built on learning science. Built into the tools schools already trust. Available to every student, not just the ones whose families can afford it. Study and Learn is the first move. Open Microsoft 365 Copilot. Look in the left navigation. The coach is there as long as Copilot Chat is enabled. Get going at https://aka.ms/studyandlearn Resources: Enable Copilot Chat step-by-step video tutorial Educator professional development Support documentation Anoo Padte is Principal Product Manager for AI in Education at Microsoft.Introducing Learning Activities: AI-powered practice for educators and students
Practice is where learning actually happens. It’s one thing to read through a unit or sit through a lesson; it’s another to retrieve that knowledge on demand. But building good practice materials takes time that educators rarely have, and most students don’t know where to start when it comes to studying on their own. Learning Activities is designed to close that gap for both. With Learning Activities, educators can paste in lesson content and generate a shareable practice activity in under three minutes. Students can do the same with their own notes to study independently, or dive straight into an activity a teacher shared with them. The AI does the heavy lifting: creating flashcards, fill-in-the-blank exercises, matching games, and quizzes from whatever content you bring. Today we’re walking through everything that’s available, who it’s for, and how to get started. What are Learning Activities? Learning Activities is a web-based tool powered by Microsoft AI. You bring the content, and it generates four types of interactive practice activities: Flashcards: Term and definition, question and answer, or multiple-choice cards. Great for vocabulary, concepts, and content review. Fill in the Blanks: AI removes key words from your content and learners drag them back into the correct blanks. Adjustable difficulty: Easy, Medium, or Challenging. Matching: A timed game where players match terms with definitions, with a leaderboard for friendly competition. Quizzes: Students generate their own multiple-choice quizzes from study materials or even just a topic description. A powerful self-study tool. Each activity type targets a different learning moment, from first-pass recognition with flashcards to timed recall under pressure with Matching. Because the AI handles the generation, the whole thing takes seconds. Four activity types, one seamless experience Flashcards Educators can create a set of flashcards from lesson notes or an uploaded document and share them with the class in minutes. Students can also create their own sets to study independently. Choose from term and definition, Q&A, or multiple-choice card formats, or mix and match them in a single set. During practice, students flip through cards and sort them into “I know this” and “Still learning” piles. After finishing, they see a summary of where they stand and can retry only the cards they missed. Fill in the Blanks AI analyzes your content, removes key words, and builds exercises where learners drag the correct words back into the blanks. Educators can choose to let the AI lightly rephrase content for better exercises or keep the original text exactly as written. Three difficulty levels give you control over the challenge. Learners get immediate feedback after each exercise: correct answers appear in green, missed ones in red. Then they move on to the next passage. Matching The Matching game generates term-and-definition pairs from your content and turns them into a timed race. Each round randomly selects six terms from the full set, so replaying the same activity stays fresh. A leaderboard shows the top five fastest times, and players can use a custom nickname or stay anonymous. Quizzes (students only) Quizzes are created by students, for students. They paste in their study notes, describe a topic they want to be tested on, or upload a file, and the AI generates a multiple-choice quiz. Students pick 10, 15, or 20 questions and can turn on Practice mode for question-by-question feedback with instant retries, rather than waiting until the end to see results. No teacher setup required. Students can go from “I have a test tomorrow” to practicing in about a minute. End-to-end demo of Learning Activities Who can use Learning Activities? Learning Activities is built for three audiences: Educators can create and share Flashcards, Fill in the Blanks, and Matching activities with their students. After students practice, educators see lightweight insights on completions, average scores, and which specific items gave students the most trouble. Students (all ages) can practice activities shared with them by an educator using a join code or direct link. Students (age 13+) who have access to Copilot chat can create their own Flashcards, Fill in the blanks, Matching activities and Quizzes for independent study. Enterprise users can use Learning Activities to build practice materials for onboarding, training, or personal development. Same tools, same AI, applied to professional content. Where to find Learning Activities Start on the web The best place to get started is the Learning Activities web app, accessible in the education and productivity sections of the Microsoft apps list and at: learningactivities.edu.cloud.microsoft From the home screen, you can create a new activity, browse everything you’ve created or saved, and join an activity using a code a teacher shared with you. In the Teach module If you already use the Teach module in Microsoft 365, Learning Activities is built right in. Select Learning Activities in Teach and generate an activity directly from your content without switching apps. Coming soon: Study and Learn agent We’re actively integrating Learning Activities into the Study and Learn agent, so students will be able to generate practice activities inline as part of their AI-assisted study sessions, right where they’re already working. Also available in Classwork in Teams for Education Learning Activities is also available through Classwork in Teams for Education, so teachers who work primarily in Teams can create and share activities without leaving the apps they’re already in. Any activity you create, whether from the web app, the Teach module, Teams, or the Study and Learn agent, shows up in your Learning Activities home screen. Everything stays in one place. Getting started: educators Go to learningactivities.edu.cloud.microsoft. Select + New Activity and choose a type: Flashcards, Fill in the Blanks, or Matching. Paste in your content or upload a file (Word, PDF, PowerPoint, or text, up to 100,000 characters). Select your language and any format options, then select Generate. Review the output, make any edits, and select Save Activity. From the activity overview page, select Share to get a join code or share link for your students. That’s it. First activity typically takes under three minutes. Getting started: students Go to learningactivities.edu.cloud.microsoft. If your teacher shared an activity: select Join in the upper right, enter the join code, or open the direct link they sent you. To create your own study set: select + New Activity, choose Flashcards, Fill in the blanks, Matching or Quiz, paste in your notes, and generate. Getting started: enterprise users Enterprise users can access Learning Activities at learningactivities.edu.cloud.microsoft with their Microsoft 365 account. Create activities from internal documents, onboarding materials, or training content the same way an educator would. Activities live in your My Activities tab and can be shared with teammates using a join code or link. For IT admins: managing Learning Activities for your organization Learning Activities is enabled by default for eligible Microsoft 365 tenants. As an admin, you can turn it on or off for your entire organization from the Microsoft 365 admin center. Directions are here: Manage Microsoft 365 for Education AI Features - M365 Education | Microsoft Learn. View insights after your students practice Once students complete activities you’ve shared, head back to the activity overview page to see how it went. Insights available today: Students started and completed Average score The specific cards, blanks, or questions students found most challenging We’re continuing to build on this over time based on what educators tell us they need. Helpful links Learning Activities: Learning Activities - Microsoft Support Flashcards: Create Flashcards with AI - Microsoft Support Fill in the blanks: Create Fill in the blanks with AI - Microsoft Support Matching: Create Matching game with AI - Microsoft Support Quizzes: Create Quizzes using AI for Students - Microsoft Support Manage Microsoft 365 for Education AI Features - M365 Education | Microsoft Learn Learning Activities web app Have questions or feedback? 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I've search online that my University is Eligible to have ADT4T access, but as you can see I only have 28 items available. I've contacted the admin on my University and with no solution at all, I've also been connected to my university active directory, but still no solution to this problem. Also as you can see in the screenshot there's an orange warning on top. Can anyone help me please?Hands-on webinar: Study and Learn agent in M365 Copilot
Join us on Wednesday, May 13th @ 8am Pacific Time for an in-depth professional development webinar on the new Study & Learn agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, which is about to become available for all students 13+ and educators. This will be a 60-minute hands-on webinar where the Product Management team will walk through the Study & Learn agent, which is purpose-built for learning. The experience goes beyond just answering questions and instead guiding students through concepts with step-by-step support, interactive activities like quizzes and flashcards, and conversations grounded in learning science. The Study & Learn agent will be globally available by the time of this webinar on May 13th, 2026. We will also be providing links for professional development credit at this session. And don’t worry – we’ll be recording these and posting on our Microsoft Education YouTube channel so you’ll always to able to watch later or share with others. What we will cover ✅ Introduce the new Study & Learn agent ✅Understand concept/question, FC and Quiz, Matching and FIB ✅IT admin motions for enabling Copilot Chat ✅Learning Activities for students hands-on ✅CPNBs and Study Guide slides and demo 📅 Date: Tuesday, May 13th ⏰ Time: 8:00 AM Pacific 🔗 Register: https://msit.events.teams.microsoft.com/event/msit.954c5c3b-cbc0-458d-9739-49e3e8b4baf7@72f988bf-86f1-41af-91ab-2d7cd011db47
