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Microsoft’s Speaker Coach is a feature within Microsoft PowerPoint that provides users with real-time feedback on their oral presentations. The tool uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze the speaker’s tone of voice, pacing, and language, and provides suggestions for improvement to help the speaker deliver a more effective and engaging presentation.

Speaker Coach can detect when a speaker is talking too quickly, using filler words such as “um” and “ah,” or using monotone speech. It can also provide feedback on the speaker’s use of inclusive language and the overall reading level of the presentation.

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You are probably familiar with the Microsoft Bookings app where you can create a booking calendar for your audience to book time with you. This has been a great tool for parent/teacher conferences and other scheduling events.

Now, Microsoft has announced integration of the Bookings app into Outlook. It’s called “Outlook Bookings” and it allows you to create a public Bookings page to let anyone book time on your calendar for specific appointments. This might include consulting hours, office hours, tutoring, 1:1 meetings, and many more scenarios. You will see “Edit Booking Page” when viewing your Outlook calendar on the …

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2023 is kicking off with a serious bang! We now have a bunch of new features added to Microsoft Forms, the go-to app for surveys and quizzes. These new features include updated sharing options, improved themes, background music, improved templates, meeting integration, and my favorite – images in multiple choice questions!

Microsoft Forms continues to be a solid productivity app for surveying your audience and assessing students. We especially love the data reports and insights that make forms so helpful. Want to know how to use these new Microsoft Forms features for Q1 2023? I thought you would ask. Below, you …

Do you ever have situations where you need to time your students on a quiz or assessment? Microsoft Forms was recently updated to include a quiz timer feature. That’s right, you can now set a specific time duration for a Forms Quiz. Your students will see the time duration at the top of the screen during the quiz. If they do not complete the quiz by the end of the timer, the quiz will be immediately submitted for them.

Wondering how to use this new timed quiz feature? You’re in luck. Microsoft’s own Mike Tholfsen created a quick video tutorial …

Microsoft Stream is the YouTube of our organization. We can upload videos onto Stream and share them with colleagues, students, or the whole organization. We also appreciate the ability to create screen recordings right on the Stream website. It’s been a great ride and it will continue, but we wanted to let you know that the interface is changing due to the migration of the Stream videos over to SharePoint. With this move, you will notice that the process of sharing your videos is exactly the same as sharing a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file.

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Speaker Coach in PowerPoint

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