Math Progress in Microsoft Teams for Education - globally rolling out and generally available
Today, we’re pleased to announce Math Progress, a new Learning Accelerator, is now generally available in Microsoft Teams for Education for all supported languages. Math Progress streamlines assignment creation and provides student performance insights to help educators identify course trends at the individual or class level. And it’s easy to keep students on track by addressing mistakes or common misconceptions to accelerate learning. As a powerful formative assessment tool, Math Progress simplifies lesson planning by providing educators with activities and quizzes designed on math concepts that students are prepared to learn. To create a new Math Progress assignment, Educators can go into the Assignments module in Teams for Education, choose the Create button, and then Learning Accelerators -> Math Progress. Saves educators' time Educators can use an intelligent question generator to create a robust set of relevant math problems which include some answers as distractors based on common mistakes to help students think more critically as they build their knowledge. Educators can customize assignments by choosing the following options: Show your work - offers students the option to upload images or share links to OneNote pages to show their work. Student rating - optionally requests students share feedback on the level of difficulty for each question (easy, hard, or just right) to self-identify concepts where students may struggle. Shuffle question order - randomly reorders problems for each student to improve assignment integrity. Addresses mistakes and misconceptions Once students submit their work, it’s automatically graded and mistakes are detected, along with common misconceptions these mistakes may support. Once an assignment is assessed and sent back to students, they’re supported with step-by-step guidance to each problem to help students learn the correct solution. Provides actionable insights Educators can review rich insights on each student’s progress over time and benchmark with the class performance metrics, including the overall grade, number of points, most frequent question difficulty rating, and mistakes and misconceptions identified in this and other assignments to help better understand learning trends. Learn more about Math Progress, visit Microsoft Learn: Support building mathematics skills with Math Progress – Training | Microsoft Learn
