Teams for Education, all the news

In the same hours when Microsoft Teams communicates a vast series of news for free users, important news from the school also arrives from Redmond: Teams for Education, the suite dedicated to remote training. This is a particularly hot front: in the time of lockdown, 150 million students and teachers had the opportunity to relate through this platform which, thanks to forced isolation, made a breakthrough where previously it was unable to establish itself. Microsoft has bet on a lot, managing to carve out an important role alongside Meet and other similar solutions.

Microsoft Teams for Education post-lockdown Now, after the lockdown is over and with the pandemic starting to fade in part of the West (but still with the fear of a return of infections in autumn time), Microsoft Teams is preparing for what will be the "new normal" of teaching, in which the remote solution will remain a valid option and where online connections will remain available as a new standard in the event of new emergencies.

As regards primary and secondary schools, over 100,000 Italian teachers have been and continue to be trained in these months on solutions for lessons and distance learning Microsoft.

The digital, in fact, will also be essential in the near future, during the next school year. An investigation, Microsoft has found that 61% of the teachers in the world is waiting for the next fall, a mode of teaching is still a hybrid, combining face to face lessons to distance-learning courses to ensure still maximum security in terms of gatherings and distancing social. 87% also declares that, even once the situation will be back to complete normality, the digital will be much more used in education than in the past.

The role of Teams for Education has also proved to be important in the world of the university :

In Italy, the Microsoft Teams is used by more than 70% of the Universities, both for teaching and, in this emergency, for the sessions of the degree and examinations as we have seen, for example, at the University of Messina, Bergamo, and Tor Vergata. Microsoft Teams has been the platform of choice for the orientation days: the University of Bologna saw its first event on ALMA ORIENTA-all-digital with almost 33.000 participants.

Teams for Education: all the latest news These are the news announced by Microsoft in this context:

an extension of the number of participants that are visible from 9 to 49, to enable teachers to be able to see all their pupils; the ability to create Breakout rooms, or work in small groups with respect to the whole class so that students can work together in a group even at a distance; the introduction of the functionality to Raise his hand to ask questions during a lesson, just like you do in class; new options for the meeting, including the ability to integrate a Waiting Room where the teacher can give you access to the lesson only to the students who have to actually follow it; the creation, thanks to the integration of AI and Data Analytics, reports and insight on the students ' participation and their level of interaction and engagement.

broad Classes, more options in the hands of the teachers, features that enrich the experience “live”, additional options for organizing the work, reporting: these are the ingredients that Microsoft has wanted to add to their own recipe, adding new options to make Teams, a solution that is more suitable for school in a moment so crucial for the sector.

Still do not know what can access at the end of the year, but with a health emergency, and with a strong attention to every possible occasion of the outbreak, the organization of the classes at a distance will be a dogma to which no institute can do without. Teams for Education is here to stay, because the school from the remote is now inextricably part of the future of our boys.

Source: Microsoft