collaborate board

As you know, we have a district license for Nearpod and have been enjoying the engagement activities that provide student interaction and assessment opportunities. In this post, we wanted to share some new updates to the Collaborate Board activity. These updates include a new columns layout to organize the shared ideas, the ability to add comments to each idea, and additional media formats. These new media formats include video, audio recording, and GiFs.

Wanna see how it works? Well, you guessed it, our very own EdTech Evangelist created a quick tutorial showing these new Collaborate Board features. Check it out …

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reading updates

Reading Progress is an incredible new part of Microsoft Teams Assignments and can be used to support reading fluency for early learners, English learners and any student who wishes to practice their speaking skills. We are excited to share some new features of this fluency tool, now available to all teachers. These new features include a library of passages to use in your assignment and the ability to return the full results of the reading analysis to your students. Our very own EdTech Evangelist took some time to create a quick tutorial of these new features and even demonstrates how …

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onenote sort

Microsoft OneNote is a great digital notebook that you can use to keep your own notes organized and you can use the class notebook to engage with students. In this post, we would like to share some brand new updates and features that have been added to both OneNote desktop and OneNote on the web. Some of our favorite updates include the following: In the desktop version you can now sort your section pages alphabetically and use immersive reader. In the web version you can now set a picture as the page background, draw with touch, and resize embedded videos …

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live annotation

You may have noticed some new updates to our district Nearpod license. If you have not yet seen these, read on. Below is a list of the new features we now have access to in Nearpod. The highlights include the ability to annotate live on-the-fly, live student-paced mode, and co-teaching. And coming soon in early 2022, we will have enhancement to the collaborate board activity. Take a look at the videos below to see these in more detail.

Live Annotation during a Live Lesson

With Live Annotation, you can address misconceptions or model skills for students and write directly on slides and …

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assignment features

The Class Teams Assignment builder just got an upgrade. What’s new you ask? You can now use video recording and whiteboard as platforms for students to submit work. And, you can now have the assignments post to your students’ calendars. The video recording aspect runs on the Stream platform and can be used by the students to record themselves explaining their work or responding to a prompt. In addition, the teacher can use it to record themselves explaining the task or new concepts for the students.

The whiteboard feature utilizes Microsoft Whiteboard, which we have seen as a stand-alone app …

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