More great updates to Microsoft Class Teams – Yeah! These new updates include a new Insights layout, Reading Progress phonics assignments, and a ton of updates to the Reflect app, including check-in ideas, simplified emotions, read aloud, breathing exercises, and more.

Want to learn more and see how they work? You’re in luck. Microsoft’s own Mike Tholfsen has made a great video for us to learn from. Check it out below…

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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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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 …

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Reading Progress Results

Great news! We now have a support page dedicated to Reading Progress tutorials and resources. Reading Progress is a feature that is integrated into Class Teams assignments and provides an opportunity for students to practice and refine their reading fluency. Teachers can leverage Reading Progress to track students reading fluency and accuracy over time in support of student growth, goals and social emotional needs. Reading Progress is appropriate for Early Learners, English Learners, or any student looking to improve their reading fluency. 

Check out our new support page here.

Take a look at what teachers in FUSD are saying about Reading Progress:

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assignment notifications

More new features in Teams Assignments! Wow, the hits just keep on coming. Here is a quick summary of these new features:

Turn in an assignment on behalf of a studentNotifications for late assignmentsMinimize speed grader to maximize student work viewAssignment notification controlsMobile app video recording for studentsMobile app rubric creatorCreate a challenge assignment in Reading Progressand more

Wondering how to use these? Microsoft’s very own Mike Tholfsen has created a quick video tutorial on how to use all of these new features. Take a look…

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