chat

As you know, Microsoft Teams is a powerful tool for collaboration and instruction. Teams is now the flagship application within Office 365. What would we do without it? How did we get work done prior to this amazing app?

Well, it’s fun to reflect on how things have changed in our workflow, but that’s not what we are writing about today. Instead, we write this post to share yet more new features of Microsoft Teams for this fall. These new features include scheduling your chat messages, sending video messages in chat, CTRL+F to search chat history, new whiteboard features, and new …

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flip

…but it’s still the same awesome video response tool. You may have noticed that Flipgrid has been rebranded as Flip, but we wanted you to know that nothing has changed in terms of our access and it’s functionality. We can continue using our Office 365 accounts to login and make use of all the great features that Flip has to offer.

The story behind Flipgrid/Flip is an inspiring one, so we wanted to share a short video on it’s background. Flipgrid was created by Charlie Miller, who was teaching in higher ed at the time and wanted a way for students …

Read more Flipgrid is now Flip!

forms features

Microsoft Forms is the tool of choice when it comes to creating surveys for any audience and/or quizzes for students. There have been some recent updates that you will want to be familiar with, including home page improvements, new templates, a Word and PDF quiz converter, an increased response limit to 5 million, and more.

Teachers, you will likely find the quiz converter to be a nice improvement and time saver. I think we will all appreciate the new form templates as well.

Wondering how to use these new features? I thought as much. Therefore, I found this great video created …

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If you are using Microsoft Class Teams, you will want to hear this. There have been two major additions to the Class Team – Home Page and Reflect. The new Home Page link can be found just under your class name and it provides a web page that you can edit freely to provide information and resources to your students.

The other new addition is the Reflect link, just a couple notches down from the Home Page link. If you have been using the Reflect app, you will be happy to know that it is now much easier to access …

Read more New Home Page and Reflect App in Class Teams

promethean

The Promethean flat panel touch screen is an addition to the classroom that enhances instruction through interaction, mobility, simultaneous screen-sharing, drawing tools, and more. The Promethean mobile cart allows you to position the screen anywhere, depending on the task and can be easily raised and lowered to make it accessible to all students. There are currently at least two panels at each school across the district for a total of 325. With that in mind, we have created a new support page with a list of resources to help teachers become more familiar with the device and integrate it into …

Read more Promethean ActivePanel Resources

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