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Now you can migrate your Google forms to Microsoft Forms for the full Microsoft 365 experience. This feature is currently available in the Microsoft 365 admin center and is designed as an admin and tenant-level feature, enabling admins to bulk migrate their Google forms to Microsoft forms through the Microsoft 365 admin center. Individual users can then access the migrated forms on the Forms website after the migration. In the initial phrase, we're -leveraging the existing document migration process in the Microsoft 365 admin center to support forms migration under personal Google drives. Now, let's delve into the end-to-end process.

Prepare for the migration
Users should review their Google forms and responses prior to the migration and then verify all information is intact once the process is complete.

Forms migration in the Microsoft 365 admin center
The admin can initiate the migration from the Microsoft 365 admin center. To get started, the admin should firstly add, select and copy the targeted drives for migration, then designate the destination storage within OneDrive. Note: it's mandatory to specify forms destinations, either specifying individual forms destination via UX (below) or uploading CSV file for bulk. Next, they can start migrating the forms under the selected drives. Once the migration is complete, the admin can access the summarized report or download the full report to see more details in Excel.

Retrieve migrated forms on the Forms website
After the migration, users can go to the Forms website and find all the migrated forms in one collection (Migrated Forms from Google). The migrated forms are almost the same as before the migration, and only require minor edits before re-use. Users can view the migrated responses in Excel.

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What is the Goal of the Math Teaching Resource Index?

Looking for math teaching resources? This math teaching resource index has you covered! My goal with this website is to recreate a comprehensive collection of resources for teaching secondary mathematics from middle school math to calculus.

My hope is that this website will become your one-stop-shop for lesson plans, activities, and more. I hope this math teaching resource index will help you save time planning your math lessons.

My goal is to curate a collection of engaging and effective resources for teaching math concepts from arithmetic to calculus. Get inspired and find new ways to make math fun for your students.

Who is the Math Teaching Resource Index for?

Whether you're a seasoned math teacher or just starting out, this math teaching resource index has something for everyone. From printable worksheets and online activities to video tutorials and interactive games, this collection of resources is designed to support and enhance your math instruction. Start exploring today!

This is my attempt at collecting all of the math teaching ideas I have shared over the years on my blog in an easy to search index sorted by mathematical categories. I am also in the progress of adding other resources from various websites with the goal of becoming a go-to resource for math teachers when planning lessons.

How is the Math Teaching Resource Index Organized?

Resources in the math teaching resource index are organized into six broad categories. Click a category to

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Welcome to our update for Microsoft Education and our special Bett 2024 edition! The Bett conference takes place in London during the week of January 24th - January 26th, and Microsoft Education has a bunch of exciting updates to share! For our full Bett 2024 schedule of sessions and live classroom events, please visit and download our Microsoft Bett 2024 schedule PDF.
January Bett Topics:
1. Reading Coach

2. Teams EDU updates, including AI

4. Microsoft Copilot in EDU

6. OneNote EDU

1. Reading Coach

Reading Coach in Microsoft Teams was already providing learners with personalized reading practice, and instant feedback about pronunciation and fluency, while also giving insights back to educators. Today, we are announcing Reading Coach as a standalone app that also provides personalized, engaging, consistent, and independent reading fluency practice. It is available for free as a Windows application and a web app to use in the classroom or at home with a Microsoft account.

Available now for use at home: Reading Coach is now available in public preview to use at home. To get started, sign-up at https://coach.microsoft.com

Reading Coach allows learners to create unique AI-generated stories by choosing characters and settings from a curated collection of options. The AI generated story is moderated for content quality, safety and age appropriateness following Microsoft's Responsible AI guidelines. Learners read the story in the Immersive Reader accessible reading surface that has been shown to especially support struggling readers.

As learners read the story out aloud, speech-to-text artificial intelligence analyzes their reading fluency, detects words they find challenging, and records the readers' accuracy, speed and time spent reading. Readers get to choose what happens in each story chapter, charting their own reading journey through the story. Words they found challenging in the previous chapter are automatically included in the next chapter. This makes the practice immediately adaptive. Readers also get fluency coaching on the words they found challenging after each story chapter. Effort-focused badges, unlocking new characters and settings for the next story keeps learner engaged in the flow of reading motivating even reluctant readers.

Available in February 2024 for use in school: IT Administrators can sign-up for public preview at https://aka.ms/readingcoachschoolsignup. Educators can sign-up for the Reading Coach educator community at https://aka.ms/readingcoach-educatorcommunity.

Learn more about how Reading Coach works on the support documentation pages.

2. Microsoft Teams for Education updates

Using generative AI to create rubrics in Assignments
Rubrics are a useful tool to communicate the expectations for the assignments to the students, and to provide an easy and effective way for the educator to grade and give specific feedback to the students. However, creating detailed rubrics can take a lot of time. With generative AI integrated into Assignments, you just need to enter what you want the rubric to assess, and Assignments will suggest criteria for you and complete the rubric for you. You have the control as the educator, and you can add more levels or criteria and let AI fill out a first draft for you.

When: Private Preview targeted for Jan

Using generative AI to create instructions in Assignments
We have been working on ways to save time for educators by improving our products with AI. We are doing this first for Classwork, Assignments and Reading Progress. These features are all designed to fit the needs of the educators, save time for educators, and always let the educator decide on the final content. For Assignments Instructions, we are examining the information and giving multiple suggestions for how to enrich the content, such as adding more details, adding learning objectives, emphasizing key concept and even making your assignments more interesting. The educator always has the choice and can generate different options, and after the content is created, can always make further edits and updates to the content.

When: Private Preview targeted for Jan

Using generative AI to create modules in Classwork
Classwork is a new app in Teams that helps you manage your curriculum and lets educators create and organize class resources such as Assignments, Files, Links, Channels, Class Notebook pages, and more. With AI enabled Classwork module generation, educators can get assistance creating a course outline and drafting modules and descriptions based on the subject, student grade level, and class learning objectives. The educator is always in the driver's seat and can choose to edit, delete, or regenerate modules before adding them to Classwork.

When: Private Preview targeted for Feb
Admin Controls for generative AI features
The IT Administrators can control the educators' access to these generative AI features. A new control will be available in the Institute settings tab under Education Section of the Teams admin center.

Check-in with students using Reflect as they complete their assignment
Educators want to know how students feel about the work they do. They may have different emotions, such as stress, happiness, or engagement when they deal with schoolwork. We have now introduced a feature that lets educators enable Reflect Check-in on an assignment. So, when students submit their work, they will be automatically asked how they felt about the assignments. The educator can see the students' responses directly inside the Assignments Grading experience, to track the changes over time for a student and how the whole class felt about the assignment in the together view.

When: Rolling out in January

Reuse of Modules
Available now, you can now reuse your modules between Class Teams. Whether you are looking to teach the same class again, are teaching multiple instances of a class, or want to hand off curriculum to another educator, Classwork will allow you to reuse content including Assignments, Files, and Links easily. Simply make sure you are the owner of the Class Team the content is coming from, and then click "Reuse from existing" in the new Team.

Note: Support for Class Notebook and Channel resources is coming soon. Learn more at https://aka.ms/ClassworkReuseSupport.
When: Available now

3. Loop App availability for Education customers

Microsoft Loop is a flexible, AI-powered collaboration app that can help you think, plan, and create together! We're excited to share that Loop will be included in Microsoft 365 A3 and A5 plans, including Student Use Benefit users in early March. Office 365 A1 customers can create Loop workspaces and pages until June 30th, 2024. After this date, they will still have access to these existing workspaces and pages, however will need M365 A3/A5 license to create new ones.

Loop is made up of three key parts:

Loop components: Portable pieces of content (like tables, checklists, or paragraphs) that sync across all the places they are shared. For example, you can start a list in a Loop component to gather student project ideas for the next unit. Share the component in an Outlook email, Teams chat or channel, Whiteboard, and Word for the web document. The list stays up to date wherever it has been shared! Watch this video to see components in action.

Loop pages: Flexible canvases in the Loop app where you can bring together people and all your components, links, tasks, and data. Start a planning page for your next field trip where you can track schedules and to-dos. Easily share the page across apps with your fellow teachers to capture their ideas too. Check out this video on Loop pages and workspaces.

Loop workspaces: Shared spaces that allow teachers and students to track everything important to a class project in one place. Students can work together on a class project, creating pages for each phase. They can include document links, record video of themselves, and co-author in real-time.

With Copilot in Loop you have a new classroom assistant that works side by side with you. It can save you time and energy by doing things like finding relevant documents for your Loop workspace, helping you generate and refine ideas, and keeping you focused and on track with automatically generated summaries of your class projects.

Watch this video to learn more about Microsoft Loop and try Loop today!

4. Microsoft Copilot expanded availability in Education

We're thrilled to announce several expansions for education audiences. Microsoft Copilot with commercial data protection will be available to all faculty and higher education students ages 18 and above. Microsoft Copilot is also now powered by GPT-4 Turbo and is available on both iOS and Android devices. And, Copilot for Microsoft 365 eligibility will now include Microsoft and Office 365 A3 or A5 education faculty and staff with no seat minimum requirement.

Our efforts are guided by our AI principles and Responsible AI Standard and build on decades of research on grounding and privacy-preserving machine learning. Additionally, our Customer Copyright Commitment means education customers can be confident using our services and the output they generate without worrying about copyright claims. We look forward to exploring the potential for these offers in education, iterating and improving, and supporting all education organizations in the era of AI.

5. Reflect updates
Integrate Reflect with your LMS
We are happy to share that you can now seamlessly integrate Reflect with your Learning Management System (LMS) to create impactful check-ins, gain wellbeing insights, and build a happier, healthier learning community. Reflect LMS integrations are free and designed in compliance with the latest Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standards, ensuring robust security and simple installation within your district or institutional environment of Canvas, Schoology, Moodle, D2L Brightspace, and Blackboard Learn.

Learn more and get step-by-step instructions for setting up this integration with your LMS.

When: available now.

Unlock powerful wellbeing insights
We are thrilled to introduce a new dashboard for tracking Reflect data over time. This capability allows you to monitor when learners feel pleasant and motivated, as well as identify times and areas where attention may be needed. The check-in creator can follow trends over time, filter for specific dates and questions, and explore data at both the class and course levels, as well as the individual student level. This enables targeted personal support based on their wellbeing needs.

When: available now.

Built-in Class Notebook Toolbar for OneNote Desktop 365
To support educators in their transition from the OneNote Windows 10 app to the M365 Desktop version of OneNote, starting in February, the Class Notebook toolbar can be enabled through the in-app settings experience so educators will no longer need to go through the process of downloading and installing the Class Notebook add-in.

This improvement will bring all of the features that educators have come to love in the Class Notebook toolbar experience in the Windows 10 app over to the M365 Desktop version.

When: These changes will reach the monthly update channel during the month of March 2024 and will reach the semi annual update channel in July.

We are thrilled to announce that OneNote will join the M365 ecosystem of apps to host Loop components! Just as you've seen with Teams, Outlook, and Word, we will be bringing the ability to add Loop components into your OneNote notebook.

In addition, you'll be able to create and insert Loop components directly from the Insert menu in OneNote!

When: Rolling out to Microsoft 365 Insiders in the coming weeks
And finally, just to recap all the news we have for you this month, here's a quick review of all the features that are generally available or are rolling out now:

1. Reading Coach stand-alone app

2. Teams for Education updates
* Rubric generation AI - private preview
* Assignment Instructions generation AI - private preview
* Classwork module generation AI - private preview
* Teams Admin controls for generative AI features
* Classwork Reuse globally available
* Reflect in Assignments globally available

3. Loop app availability announcement for EDU (March)

4. Microsoft Copilot
* Copilot with Data Protection available for faculty and students 18+
* Copilot for iOS and Android availability
* Copilot for Windows 11 availability
* Copilot for Microsoft 365 availability for Faculty

5. Reflect updates
* LMS updates
* Well-being Insights

6. OneNote updates
* Class Notebook toolbar built-in to OneNote Desktop 365
* Loop component creation and embed

Have any feedback to share with us? As always, we'd love to hear it!
Mike Tholfsen
Group Product Manager
Microsoft Education

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Need quick substitute teacher plans? AI-powered tools can help. Here's how you can create sub lesson plans in 15 minutes (so you can go back to bed).

We've all had those days, you wake up sick with no warning and you know you need to stay home and rest.

Ah, but you're a teacher. You can't just call in sick and go back to bed. Your job doesn't work like that. You have to have something prepared for your students to do for the day. So you have two options.

Option 1: Pop some DayQuil and go in and struggle through the day.

Option 2: Get up and prepare a day of plans for a substitute.

What do most of us choose? Option 1 because it's easier to just go in than spend the whole morning prepping for a sub. It's not the healthiest option for anyone but unfortunately that is how it works when you're a teacher.
But what if it wasn't?
We've talked about AI saving us time and this is one way it can not only save us time but it can help us be happier and healthier too.

Below, you'll find two sets of sub plans -- for a 4th grade class and for a high school English class -- created quickly with digital tools powered by AI.

Create sub plans in 15 minutes with AI

Step 1: Use Bing Chat (Copilot) to create an outline of the day for your substitute.

If you already have a general schedule that can be attached you might not need this step. However it takes just a minute to add your details into the prompt below and generate a quick outline for your sub. This can be the first page of your sub plans to give your guest teacher an overview of your day.
Example Prompt: Write a substitute teaching plan for my (grade) class. I will attach lesson plans and activities to the plans on subsequent pages. We are studying (topic), (topic), (topic), and (topic). If they finish early students may (activity), (activity) or (activity). Include a greeting and a place to insert my information.

My schedule is: School begins at: Time
Time: Subject
Time: Subject
Time: Subject
Time: Subject
Time: Subject
Time: Subject
Time: Subject
Time: Subject
Time: Dismissal

Example: 4th Grade Substitute Outline

Example prompt entered into Bing Chat (Copilot):
Write a substitute teaching plan for my 4th grade class. I will attach lesson plans and activities to the plans on subsequent pages. We are studying the California gold rush, electricity (specifically conductors and insulators), opinion writing, and comparing two fractions with different numerators and different denominators. In PE we are doing a unit on basketball. If they finish early students may read, draw quietly, or complete any unfinished work. Include a greeting and a place to insert my information.
Substitute Teacher Information:

Name: [Insert Name]

Contact Information: [Insert Contact Information]

Daily Schedule and Lesson Plan:

1. 8:00 - Morning Routine: Start the day by greeting the students and taking attendance. Review the rules and expectations for the day.

2. 8:15 - Math: The students are currently learning about comparing two fractions with different numerators and different denominators. Use the attached lesson plan and activities to guide the lesson.

3. 9:00 - Recess: Supervise the students during recess and ensure they are safe and respectful to each other.

4. 9:30 - Language Arts: The focus is on opinion writing. Guide the students through the process of forming an opinion and supporting it with reasons and examples.

5. 10:30 - PE: The students are doing a unit on basketball. Follow the attached PE lesson plan to guide the activities.

6. 11:30 - Lunch: Supervise the students during lunch and ensure they are safe and respectful to each other.

7. 12:30 - Science: The students are studying electricity, specifically conductors and insulators. Use the attached lesson plan and activities to guide the lesson.

8. 1:30 - History/Social Studies: The students are studying the California gold rush. Use the attached lesson plan and activities to guide the lesson.

9. 2:30 - Dismissal: Ensure all students are dismissed safely and according to the school's dismissal procedures.

My schedule is
8:00 Morning Routine
8:15 Math
9:00 Recess
9:30 Language Arts
10:30 PE
11:30 Lunch
12:30 Science
1:30 History/Social Studies
2:30 Dismissal

Answer from Bing Chat: Sure, here's a draft of your substitute teaching plan:

Early Finishers: If students finish their work early, they may read, draw quietly, or complete any unfinished work.

Please feel free to adjust this plan as needed based on the students' needs and progress throughout the day. Thank you for your dedication to our students' learning!

Example: 10th Grade English Substitute Outline

Example prompt entered into Bing Chat (Copilot):
Write a substitute teaching plan for my high school English classes. I will attach lesson plans and activities to the plans on subsequent pages. In 10th grade English, we are reading chapter 4 from Animal Farm by George Orwell and doing related activities. In 9th grade English, students are completing a final analysis of Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. During prep, the substitute teacher can relax or help grade the Animal Farm activities that students turned in. During homeroom, the sub should supervise students as they work on work from other classes. In all classes, the resources students need are posted in our learning management system. The sub should emphasize that students may use their cell phones to listen to music while they work but for nothing else. Other classroom rules and procedures will be attached. If students finish early, they can work on work from other classes, read, or access sites in our "extra free time" list. Include a greeting and a place to insert my information.

My schedule is:
8:15 English 10
9:10 English 10
10:05 English 9
11:00 English 10
11:55 Lunch
12:30 Homeroom
1:05 English 9
2:00 Prep
2:55 English 9

Answer from Bing Chat:

Hello! Thank you for entrusting me with your high school English classes. I have prepared a substitute teaching plan for your classes based on the information you provided. Please find the plan below:

Please note that all the resources students need are posted in your learning management system. The students are allowed to use their cell phones to listen to music while they work, but for nothing else. Other classroom rules and procedures will be attached.

If students finish early, they can work on work from other classes, read, or access sites in your "extra free time" list.

I hope this plan meets your requirements. If you have any further questions or concerns, please let me know. Thank you!

Step 2: Use MagicSchool.ai tools to create activities for each subject or class

There are lots of great AI tools out there and you can certainly swap out other tools for the ones below. However if we are talking about making sub plans in a flash the using one app for everything will save you even more precious time.
Why MagicSchool.ai?
About: MagicSchool.ai empowers teachers to do the tasks they need to do -- important tasks -- in less time. The AI that drives MagicSchool helps teachers to plan lessons, differentiate, write assessments, write IEPs, communicate clearly, and more.

How it works: MagicSchool.ai has more than 40 "teacher tools," or custom-trained AI bots to do specific tasks for you. It generates "educational content that is original, aligned to standards, and customized for your students." It also helps you translate content to 25+ languages and level texts to students' lexile.

Pricing and terms: MagicSchool.ai is free for educators. Schools and districts can sign up for the AI Innovators Program, which includes training, dedicated support, and customization.
Check it out: MagicSchool.ai
For these sub plans we chose a few tools to create these quick lesson plans. These tools generate content quickly and with the Ask Raina chatbot and Question generator features built right in we can easily create lesson plans or extensions to the content.

You can click on each of the tools below to go directly to them. In the tool click "See an Exemplar" to view what the tool can do or watch the video below to see what MagicSchool AI can do.

Activity: Warm up or bell ringer for morning routine or beginning of class (4th grade)
Tool: Example Prompt: (Grade level) Quotes about: Being responsible even when no one is looking Quote of the Day Generator

Subject: 4th Grade Math / Activity: Story problems based on students interests.
Tool: Math Story Word Prompts Generator + Ask Raina
Prompt: You will enter in your grade level, number of questions you want and what your students are interested in (examples: Beyonce concert, baseball, Roblox,) Ask Raina: Create a lesson plan for (standard) using the above story prompts as the modeled and independent practice problems.

Subject: 4th Grade Language Arts / Activity: Opinion Writing
Tool: Exemplar & Non-Exemplar + Ask Raina
Prompt: You will enter in your grade level, standard or topic, length and assignment prompt (example: write an opinion piece about your favorite sport and why you think it's the best). After the prompt has been generated use the "Ask Raina" button: Create a lesson plan on (subject/topic) where students will... Example: Create a lesson plan on opinion writing where students will write about their favorite sport and why it's the best. Use the above Exemplar & Non-Exemplars as materials for the lesson.

Subject: 4th Grade PE / Activity: Basketball
Tool: Coach's Sport Practice Generator
Prompt: You will enter in your grade level, sport, length of practice and additional optimizations (example: Include warm-ups and cool down. Focus on dribbling and shooting.)

Subject: 4th Grade Science / Activity: Conductors and Insulators Read and Discuss
Tool: Academic Content Generator + Question Generator
Prompt: You will enter in your grade level, text length, content type (example: Textbook page) , topic (example: An informational article about electricity and conductors and insulators) and any additional criteria. After the prompt has been generated use the "? Questions" button: Create free response questions based on the text.

Subject: 4th Grade History / Activity: Read and Respond: The California Gold Rush
Tool: Informational Text Generator+ Ask Raina
Prompt: You will enter in your grade level, informational text type, text length, length and topic (example: The California gold rush. Include dates of important events). After the prompt has been generated use the "Ask Raina" button: Create a writing prompt for (grade level) based on the generated text above.

Subject: 10th Grade English / Activity: Text Analysis of Animal Farm
Tool: Text Analysis Assignment Generator
Prompt: Choose 10th grade as the grade level. Copy/paste the full text of the chapter into the input text.

Subject: 9th Grade English / Activity: Summary Project for Of Mice and Men
Tool: Choice Board Generator + Ask Raina
Prompt: Choose 9th grade as the grade level. Learning Goal, Standard, Objective, or Topic: After reading Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, students will demonstrate understanding of the plot, the characters, the underlying issues, and the literary devices of the novel. Additional details: Include a variety of modalities for the choices.

Step 3: Copy your plans into a Google Doc or Word Document and send!

By clicking the "copy" button in Bing Chat or MagicSchool.ai you can easily cut and paste all of the generated content into a document that you can share with your sub.

This is also the time that you will want to read through and make any adjustments based on your own students, materials available and logistics for the day.

For example, for the 4th grade plans, since these are emergency sub plans, I wanted to make sure that no copies were needed for my materials so I adjusted and said to either read aloud, write on the board or display on the screen for the students for anything that was to be handed out.

For the high school English plans, just to provide some variety, I created more detailed plans that would include a bit more preparation work. Many of the activities in the choice board, for example, could be adjusted to use digital tools that wouldn't require photocopies or physical materials. (Example: the storyboard could be created in Google Slides, PowerPoint, Canva, Adobe Express, etc.)
Depending on the amount of adjustments or additions you make to the plans your time will vary but the bulk of the work is done! 📋 You can check out the 4th grade emergency sub plans here. 📋

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Brisk is a free AI-powered Chrome extension that helps busy teachers save time directly within the tools they already use, like Google Docs, Slides, YouTube, and web articles. Teachers use Brisk as a Targeted Feedback Generator, AI Presentation Maker, AI Quiz Maker, AI Lesson Plan Generator, AI Rubric Generator, Letter of Recommendation Generator, IEP 504 Template Maker, and so much more.

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Citing your work is an essential part of doing research. And, if you are like me, keeping track of where you are finding your information can feel chaotic and unorganized. Some folks learned to cite their work using index cards, while others use Post-it notes or Google Docs. Now, there are online tools specially designed to create, sort, and share citations in a variety of ways. Maybe you work with students and are looking for a good tool to share. Or you might be writing a grant proposal and need to track your research. Whatever your task, let's take a look at some features common to citation tools to help evaluate and identify one that's right for you.

Online Citation Tool Features

Citation Generation

Online citation tools can generate the citation for you based on your preferred style including , , , and more. Share the URL of the resource and allow the tool to work its magic to gather the info you need. If your tool is free or not quite so robust, it may provide a form in which you enter the various pieces of information. Then, it puts them all together to create a citation according to your style guide.

Reference Management

Online tools typically provide some type of management to help you keep track of your citations. It could be limited to one list of citations that can be sorted and adjusted on the fly. If you're lucky, the citation tool could allow you to create different lists of citations, so that they do not intermingle. This is great if you're working on citing your work for different projects or research papers.

Collaboration Features

Some citation tools provide a collaboration feature. This will allow you (or your students) to work in groups but keep their citations in a single place. Everyone in the group can access, add to, and edit the citations as needed. This could be a great benefit, depending on the type of project you are working on.

Five Online Citation Tools

Zotero is a free and easy-to-use research and citation tool that helps you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It can automatically detect research as you browse the web, and it supports a wide range of sources, including articles, books, preprints, news stories, and more. You can sort items into collections, tag them with keywords, and create saved searches that automatically update with relevant materials as you work. Additionally, you have the option to synchronize your data across devices, so you can always access your research from anywhere.

Zotero also makes it easy to collaborate with others. You can share a Zotero library with as many people as you like at no cost. This makes it easy to co-write a paper with a colleague, distribute course materials to students, or build a collaborative bibliography. Overall, Zotero is a powerful and versatile research and citation tool that can help you save time and stay organized. It is a great option for students, researchers, and anyone else who needs to manage a large collection of research sources.

RefSeek is an academic search engine and citation tool that helps students and researchers find relevant and reliable information for their assignments. It indexes documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers. One of the things that sets RefSeek apart from other search engines is its focus on academic sources. When you search for a topic on RefSeek, you're more likely to see results from scholarly websites, academic journals, and other reputable sources.

Another great thing about RefSeek is that it's easy to use. The search bar is simple and straightforward, and the results pages are clearly organized. You can filter your results by source type, publication date, and other criteria. You can also create and save your own custom search folders. This can be helpful for managing your research. In addition to its search features, RefSeek also generates citations for your sources in a variety of different styles, including MLA, APA, and Chicago. You can also use RefSeek to create bibliographies and reference lists.

Citation Machine is a freemium website that helps students create citations in a variety of formats. It's easy to use and reliable, but the free version is cluttered with ads and can be slow to load. If you're looking for a more powerful citation generator, you may want to consider a paid subscription to a service like EasyBib or Zotero. However, if you're just starting out with research and citations, Citation Machine is a good option to try. When using Citation Machine, be as accurate as possible when entering the information about your source. The more information you provide, the better this citation tool will be able to generate a citation for you.

Mendeley is a free and open-source reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, generate citations, and collaborate with others. Mendeley can help you save time on your research by automatically generating citations and bibliographies. It can also help you stay organized by providing a central place to store and manage all of your research sources. Additionally, Mendeley makes it easy to collaborate with other researchers by sharing your research folders and groups. Overall, Mendeley is a powerful and easy-to-use reference manager that can be a huge help for students. Though it does offer premium features, you will find the free version is more than adequate.

Google Scholar is a free, web-based search and citation tool that indexes scholarly literature from a variety of sources, including academic journals, books, conference proceedings, and theses. It is a popular tool for students, researchers, and academics to find and cite relevant sources for their work. Google Scholar provides comprehensive search results, an easy-to-use citation generator, and integrates with other Google tools. Though Scholar is an easy tool to use, its citation generator is not always accurate. Scholar can also be biased toward research that is published in English, so if you are looking for research in other languages, this may not be your go-to tool of choice.

Bonus Tool

ResearchRabbit is not focused on being a citation generator or manager, though it does provide these features. It is a free and easy-to-use tool that can help you stay organized and up-to-date on the latest research. It also provides personalized recommendations for related research. You may find this tool better for adults and high school students. It can help you find relevant research by allowing you to search for articles by keyword, author, or journal. You can also create saved searches so that you can easily stay up-to-date on new research in your field.

ResearchRabbit can help you organize your research by allowing you to create and manage projects. Each project can contain a collection of articles, notes, and other resources. You can also create tags to help you categorize your research. Plus, it can help you stay up-to-date on the latest research by sending you email alerts when new articles are published in your field. You can also follow other users and see what they are reading.

So, which option will you be using yourself or with your students to help cite work accurately and easily? Do you have a citation tool you use other than one of the ones mentioned above? If so, feel free to share it in the comments below; share the name of the tool and what you love about it.

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We just completed Almanack's integration with the Australian curriculum and thought it would be a good opportunity to delve into why curriculum integration with AI Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, is important.

Australian curriculum integration with Almanack

Australian curriculum integration has been in the works for over a month and we're excited to announce that it is now ready for teachers to use in the Lesson Planning module.

This means that Almanack now supports the following curriculums:

Australian Curriculum

UK National Curriculum

Cambridge Curriculum

Ontario Curriculum

Why is curriculum integration with AI important?

Before making a significant investment towards integrating curriculums with Almanack, we took a step back and thought long and hard about whether the investment would be worth it. The answer, fortunately, was a resounding yes. Here are the top benefits that convinced us of the value of curriculum integration:

First, curriculum integration ensures that the course materials that Almanack creates are aligned with the learning expectations outlined in the curriculum. This makes it easy for a teacher to ensure that they are meeting curriculum objectives.

Second, curriculum alignment gives the AI well-defined confines to operate within. This makes it less likely for it to hallucinate. With hallucinations being one of the major problems associated with large language models (LLMs), anything that helps reduce them gets our thumbs up.

Third, curriculum integration equips the AI to evaluate student-submitted work against curriculum standards. This is how we see Almanack's Grading module evolve, where it automatically creates rubrics based on the curriculum and evaluates student work based on those.

Calling early adopters in Australia!

We are working directly with teachers to develop features specific to Australia and the Australian curriculum. If you have any suggestions or ideas, we would love to hear from you. Please use the "Send Feedback" button on Almanack or send an email to feedback@almanack.ai.

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10 new features in Microsoft Teams for Education | Summer 2023

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Today, we're excited to announce that Classwork, our new app to streamline your lesson planning process and organize your class resources more efficiently, is now available to all Teams for Education customers!

Classwork is a one-stop shop to create and organize class resources, including Assignments, OneNote Class Notebook pages, web links, files, and Teams channels. This means you no longer have to navigate multiple apps and platforms to find what you need. With Classwork, you can curate a view of content and resources that will help your students navigate the class and see everything in one place. To learn more about Classwork, check out our new training module and video on Microsoft Learn.

What are the benefits of Classwork?

Classwork is designed to make your life easier by providing you with the tools you need to create, organize, and manage your class resources more effectively. Whether you are teaching in-person or online, Classwork is a valuable resource that can help you keep your class organized and your students on track. Here are some of the benefits of Classwork:

Save time and effort by creating and organizing your class resources in one place

Keep your students informed and engaged by publishing and pinning modules of study

Enhance your teaching and learning experience with Teams for Education

For a more detailed walkthrough of Classwork functionality, please see this video below

What's next for Classwork?

At the same time as bringing Classwork to you, we're busy working on making it even better! Coming to Classwork later this calendar year is the ability to reuse your modules from previous classes or terms. This will save time and effort when setting up your Teams and allow you to improve your teaching and refine your lesson plans year after year.

How can I get started with Classwork?

Classwork is now available for all Teams for Education users. To get started, open or create a new Class Team, and select Classwork.

We hope that you will give Classwork a try and see how it can benefit you and your students. We are always looking for feedback and suggestions on how to improve our products and services. Please share your thoughts and experiences with Classwork in our Feedback Portal. We can't wait to hear from you!

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Similarity checker helps you create original work and cite the work of others in your Word documents. The similarity checker shows you how much content in your document is original, and it makes it easy to insert citations when necessary. With the mechanics of citations taken care of, you are freed up to focus on your writing. Your reader can tell what material originates with you, and the people you cite get credit where it's due.

Note: Similarity checker was announced in March, 2020 and continues to be released across Microsoft 365 subscriptions. It may take several weeks to reach your account. This feature is available only for English language text.

1. In the Editor pane, find Similarity, and click or tap Check for similarity to online sources.

When the check is complete, Editor shows you how much of your content matches text that it found online (indicated as a percent), and the number of distinct passages in the document for you to review.

2. To review the passages, click or tap Similarities reviewed. Editor takes you to the first passage, where you can choose whether or not to insert a citation. A link to the online content lets you judge for yourself whether attribution is warranted. If you decide not to add a citation, choose Ignore.

After a passage has been reviewed, Editor underlines it in green. Clicking or tapping in the passage opens the citation suggestion again, which is helpful if you want to re-read the online source or add a citation to a passage that you previously ignored.

Inserting citations

Inserting an in-text citation places the citation immediately following the passage. Depending on the situation, Editor might also surround the passage with quotation marks. If you don't want the quotation marks, just delete them.

If your document includes a bibliography or a list of works cited, use Copy full citation, and paste the citation into the bibliography or the works cited.

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To see the full schema and try examples yourself, check out our API documentation.

Our classifier returns a document-level score completely_generated_prob that specifies the probability the entire document was AI-generated. We would recommend using this score when deciding whether or not there is a significant use of AI in generating the text.n our validation dataset, here is how the results change when you set all documents with completely_generated_prob under the threshold as human, and above as AI:

At a threshold of 0.88, 85% of AI documents are classified as AI, and 99% of human documents are classified as human

At a threshold of 0.5, 96% of AI documents are classified as AI, and 96% of human documents are classified as human

We recommend using a threshold of 0.88 or higher to minimize the number of false positives, as we think it is currently more harmful to falsely detect human writing as AI than vice versa.

Additionally, we highlight sentences that been detected to be written by AI. API users can access this highlighting through the highlight_sentence_for_ai field. The sentence-level classification should not be soley used to indicate that an essay contains AI (such as ChatGPT plagiarism). Rather, when a document gets a MIXED or AI_ONLY classification, the highlighted sentence will indicate where in the document we believe this occurred.

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We are excited to introduce you to Classwork - our new curricula management app in Teams for Education coming in June! Classwork is designed to help you streamline your lesson planning process and organize your class resources more efficiently. Classwork is a one-stop shop to create and organize class resources, including Assignments, OneNote Class Notebook pages, web links, files, and Teams channels. This means you no longer have to navigate multiple apps and platforms to find what you need. With Classwork, you can curate a view of content and resources that will help your students navigate the class and see everything in one place.

In Classwork, you can create modules of study to organize your course, such as by topics or weeks, and add descriptions to those modules. When you create modules, they won't be visible to students until you choose to publish them.

You can then create new resources or add existing resources you've already created to your modules. For example, you can create a new Teams Assignment from Classwork or search for one you've already created. In this example here the educator is adding an Assignment from the class to the module.

You can drag and drop content to organize it within the modules to customize exactly how your students will see it. Once you have organized your resources within the modules, you can publish them to your students when you're ready. This makes it easy to keep your students informed of the materials they need to study and helps them stay on track.

You can even pin the most important module at any given time, making it easy for students to find and access the most relevant and up to date class content.

In the future, we plan to add reuse capabilities to the app that will allow you to easily reuse the materials you have created in previous classes or terms. This will save time and effort when setting up your Teams and allow you to improve your teaching and refine your lesson plans year after year.

With Classwork, you can spend less time organizing and more time teaching. We designed it to make your life easier by providing you with the tools you need to create, organize, and manage your class resources more effectively. Whether you are teaching in-person or online, Classwork is a valuable resource that can help you keep your class organized and your students on track.

We hope that you will give Classwork a try and see how it can benefit you and your students. We believe Classwork will make teaching in Teams more productive and enjoyable - and it will be available for you to try soon. We can't wait to hear your feedback!

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Microsoft Teams for Education has been a game-changer for educators who want to create a more collaborative and organized learning environment. With its ability to bring meetings, content, and apps together in one place, Teams has become a go-to digital hub for educators. Now with even more dynamic updates, Teams is offering new and exciting features that can help students and educators achieve even more in the classroom.

Explore the latest updates to Teams and how they can help educators create a more supportive, dynamic, and interactive learning experience for students.

Use the Classwork app to create and organize content

Teams for Education is about to get even easier to use with the upcoming release of the new Classwork app! Classwork is specifically designed for educators to simplify the task of managing their curriculum. This app offers educators a one-stop shop to access all their teaching materials, and in the future, effortlessly reuse class content. With Classwork, educators can create and organize various class resources, such as assignments, files, links, channels, Class Notebook pages, and more.

Organization has never been so simple! Educators can create modules with descriptions to organize courses into distinct units by topic, lesson, or week. Modules are saved in a draft state and are not visible to students by default, allowing educators to build their content in the app at their own pace. Once they're ready, they can easily publish the content for students, dragging and dropping modules into a desired order. Additionally, educators can "pin" important modules to the top of the list, making it even easier for their students to find the most relevant content without having to scroll through past modules.
Learn more about the Classwork app.
Develop information literacy skills with Search Coach

"Students don't often know how to use search effectively. That's what Search Coach does-it turns students into critical thinkers and researchers."
-John Stapley, Head of Digital Technology at Napier Boys' High School

With a commitment to help prepare students for their futures, we're excited to introduce Search Coach, a simple and powerful new app that helps educators and students develop information literacy skills by forming effective queries and finding reliable resources.
Introducing Search Coach in Microsoft Teams

This Microsoft Learning Accelerator offers real-time coaching and feedback, easy access to advanced search techniques, and details about each website to help students learn to ask the right questions and search with confidence. It is crucial to introduce students to these skills with authentic practice early on to cultivate their ability to become well-informed and critical consumers of information.

To help educators get started, we've also created an ever-growing page of resources for teaching information literacy skills with Search Coach.

Improve grading with weights and averages

We've revamped our grading experience, to make grading in Teams more streamlined and accurate for educators and students. Two new options are available for educators to turn on: weighted categories and average grade.

With weighted grading categories, educators can assign different percentages to different assignments in Grades. To assess a student's performance more accurately, educators can assign percentage weights to different types of assignments like class assignments, homework, projects, essays, and exams. This helps in effectively evaluating assignments as some may be more demanding in terms of demonstrating knowledge than others. Weighted categories can be enabled in Grade settings.
Breathing exercises led by Feelings Monster in Reflect

Educators can also enable the average grades option for students in the new Grade settings. Students can view their most up to date grades, allowing them to easily track their progress and empowering them to take control of their learning. By having access to their grades, students can quickly assess their strengths and weaknesses, find areas that need improvement, and take corrective action.

If a class is using grading categories, average grades will be calculated by multiplying the average score in each category by that category's weight. This provides students with a more accurate picture of their overall progress.
Educator view of Grades dashboard with average grade toggled to Yes Educator view of student grades with average grade highlighted Learn more about Grades.
Distribute, code and grade Python and Jupyter Notebooks

Python is a highly popular programming language that is increasingly used in education for fields such as data science, mathematics, physics, and statistics. We are thrilled to announce the native integration of Python Jupyter Notebooks (.ipynb) and Python Script files (.py) directly into Teams Assignments.

With this integration, educators and their students can distribute and work on Python code within Teams Assignments without having to set up a separate coding environment. They can also add comments to the notebooks, just like when reviewing Microsoft Word documents. Once the assignment is completed, the notebooks and scripts can be turned in to the educator in Teams for grading.
View of Python files in Jupyter notebook in Teams Learn more about Jupyter Notebooks in Assignments.
Create inclusive meetings with Sign Language View

To ensure that all students can fully participate and engage with the content being presented, inclusive and accessible meeting environments are crucial. When a meeting is not accessible, students with disabilities may feel excluded or discouraged from participating, which can negatively impact their learning experience.

We're excited to introduce Sign Language View, a new feature designed to make meetings more accessible for people who are deaf or hard of hearing and their interpreters. Sign Language View keeps up to two signers in a consistent location on center stage throughout the meeting, making it easier to follow the conversation. This feature can be enabled during a meeting or set as a persistent setting for all Teams calls. The prioritized video streams appear at the right aspect ratio and highest quality for clear communication. Like pinning and captioning, this view is personal to the user and doesn't affect others in the meeting.
Teams meeting with sign language interpreter pinned on screen Learn more about Sign Language View for Teams Meetings.
Support students' well-being with Reflect

The Reflect app supports student well-being by providing a private space for reflection and response to prompts from educators. It's a valuable tool for promoting mindfulness and reflection in classrooms. With four recent updates, the Reflect app has been enhanced with new features that improve inclusivity and ease of use for educators to incorporate into their routine.

Breathing exercises

When we intentionally focus on our breath and engage in slow, deep breathing, it can help to calm the body and reduce feelings of stress and anxiety. This can lead to feelings of relaxation and an improved mood. The Feelings Monster is excited to help educators incorporate breathing exercises into their class routine. After students check in, the Feelings Monster will guide them to focus on their breath and get their body and mind ready to learn.
GIF of breathing exercises led by Feelings Monster in Reflect
Promoting inclusivity in Reflect

We've added new features to Reflect to promote inclusivity. When creating a check-in, educators can now choose simplified emotional vocabulary, reducing cognitive load for students and making it easier for learners who are new to emotion words.[

Additionally, students can hear the definition of each word read aloud as if the speaker were experiencing that emotion, supporting their emotional awareness in a multi-sensory way. This feature is available in English, Spanish, and Japanese, and will soon be available in more languages.

Customized and routine check-ins

Check-ins can help create a positive and inclusive classroom environment where students feel safe and supported. Regular check-ins also help educators monitor their students' emotions over time and identify any changes, patterns, or potential problems early on.

Reflect has two new features, check-in ideas gallery and Ask it again, to make check-ins even faster and more consistent. With the new check-in ideas gallery, educators can easily customize Reflect questions. Simply choose from a variety of suggested questions or jumpstart an idea using the provided stems. Using a variety of check-in questions enables educators to get to know their students better while also challenging them to build self-awareness.
Educator view for options to choose for Reflect check-ins

To make check-ins a simple routine we added the new Ask it again button, which lets educators quickly repeat a past check-in question with just one click. Collecting data for the same check-in question overtime will highlight any changes for the educator
Educator view for using Ask it again feature on past Reflect check-in question
Learn more about supporting student well-being using Reflect.
These are just a few of this month's fresh new and updated Teams features that help educators enhance their teaching and promote meaningful and engaging learning experiences for students.

Don't miss out on all the latest and greatest Teams updates, visit our Education Blog post about all the newest Teams updates and sign up for the Microsoft Education Newsletter to get tips, creative ideas, and all the latest information!

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Welcome to our monthly update for Teams for Education and thank you so much for being part of our growing community! We've been working on some great new updates that we're excited to share with you, so here's what's new this month. Enjoy!

February Topics:

1. Introducing Classwork for Microsoft Teams

2. Updates to Grading

3. Search Coach in Teams

4. Reading Progress - Addition of Comprehension Questions

5. Reading Coach in Immersive Reader for Teams Assignments

6. Automatic lowering of hand in a meeting (preview)

7. New Teams Webinar Experience

8. "@ Mention" everyone in the chat

9. Education Templates for Teams Meetings

10. Loop component support in Microsoft Whiteboard

11. Save and Share Templates in Microsoft Whiteboard

1. Classwork in Microsoft Teams
One solution to create and organize class content in Teams!
Coming soon to Teams for Education is the new Classwork app, built to manage your curriculum! Classwork will allow educators to create and organize class resources including Assignments, Files, Links, Channels, Class Notebook pages, and more. In Classwork, educators can organize resources into modules aligned with their curriculum structure so that students can more easily navigate the class and find relevant resources.

When: Preview in spring 2023

2. Grading Updates

Teams for Education is revamping its grading experience with grading improvements including weighted grading categories and showing average grades to students. These features will make the Grades experience in Teams more streamlined and accurate for educators and students alike.

Average grades for students will be available for educators to enable in the new Grade settings experience. With this feature, students will be able to see their grade in the class and track their progress.

Weighted grading categories allow educators to assign percentage weights to different types of assignments and can also be turned on in Grade settings. If a class is using grading categories, average grades will be calculated by multiplying the average score in each category by that category's weight. Both features are rolling out this month!

Creating Grading Categories
3. Search Coach in Teams

Search Coach is a simple and powerful new tab app that helps educators and students develop information literacy skills by forming effective queries and identifying reliable resources.

As a "search engine with training wheels", Search Coach offers real-time coaching, easy access to advanced search techniques, and details about each website to help students learn to ask the right questions and search with confidence. To help educators get started, we've also created an ever-growing hub page of resources for teaching with Search Coach in the classroom.

For more information, feel free to check out our Tech Community blog and our Microsoft Educator Centre course.

Stay tuned for updates about future Assignments integration, or Search Progress, coming soon!

When: Available now in 50+ languages!

4. Reading Progress - comprehension questions

Our reading fluency app Reading Progress, launched in Microsoft Teams in fall of 2021. Reading Progress supports educators in increasing the frequency of reading fluency evaluations, helping them to differentiate more powerfully to support students on their fluency journey. The #1 request from educators and schools has been a desire to add reading comprehension questions for the student to complete after they read. We heard the educators' requests and are excited to announce that we will be adding reading comprehension question support to reading progress later this year! Using Microsoft Forms technology, educators will be able to assess not only students' fluency, but also their understanding - right in Reading Progress. Educators will be able to provide students with access to the questions prior to reading if they wish, a scaffolding strategy that can help students learn to read with purpose. The auto-grading capabilities of Microsoft Forms Quizzes will also be included to streamline grading of multiple-choice questions. We expect to have comprehension questions in private testing in late spring of 2023.

When: Q2 of 2023

5. Reading Coach in Immersive Reader for Teams Assignments

Last year, Reading Coach launched as part of Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams. Reading Coach provides students with personalized and independent practice based on words that Reading Progress identifies a student has mispronounced. Reading Coach has proven to be popular not only with educators, but especially with students. We've heard stories from teachers of students " demanding more passages" from the teacher, and that they've set personal goals of improvement. To enable students to practice with content that aligns with their interests and focus, without the need for a teacher to make an assignment in Teams, we are rolling out Reading Coach as part of Immersive Reader in many of our M365 apps, including Microsoft Teams Assignments, Word for web, OneNote and Flip. Many more are coming soon!

When: Available Now, more apps coming in March and April 2023

6. Automatic lowering of hand in a meeting (preview)

It's common in meetings for people to forget that their virtual hand is raised, and often times a raised hand will be left raised indefinitely. With this new update, users who raise their hand in a Teams meeting and then speak, will see a notification informing them that their hand will automatically be lowered. The notification will allow them to keep their hand raised if they choose to.

When: Coming in Q2, 2023

7. New Teams Webinar Experience

An updated Webinar experience has been fully rolled out! By enabling the new webinar experience, you can use meeting registration and many new webinar features, such as:

Dedicated event and registration page

Co-organizers

Presenter bios on the event page

Registration status overview and management

Read more about the new features in Get started with Teams webinars.

When: Available Now

8. @ Mention everyone in the chat

Similar to how you can mention individuals in chat, you will soon have the option for "Everyone". After typing @, you will see the same people results you see today, but a new option, "Everyone" will be available. By selecting "Everyone" and sending the message, a notification will be sent to all users in the group chat based on their selected notification settings.

When: March 2023

9. Education Templates for Teams Meetings

When you want to organize a meeting for online or hybrid learning-like a science class, history class or an exam marking meeting-education meeting templates let you automatically create the experience that's right for you. With meeting templates, the meeting options will already be set, ensuring meetings adhere to your organization's best practices and policies.

Two new templates are included for education; Class, built for younger students where student safety is crucial, and Lecture, built for older students where collaboration is key.

Learn more about using education templates for Teams meetings.

When: Available Now

10. Loop component support in Microsoft Whiteboard

Loop components support in Microsoft Whiteboard is rolling out to all our end-users as we speak! The below mentioned functionalities will be supported:

1. Live copy/paste any existing Loop component to & from Whiteboard & other MS365 applications and edit them in line with changes saved across all instances in real-time.

2. Add different content types (such as dates, comments, tables, task lists etc.) with content manipulation functionalities (such as text formatting, adding, editing & deleting rows, columns & tasks etc.)

3. @mention users with email notifications

For more details about Loop components, read First things to know about Loop components.

When: Currently rolling out & slated to be available for all users by mid/end-Feb 2023

11. Save and share templates in Microsoft Whiteboard

Saving and sharing templates in Microsoft Whiteboard now allows educators to save and share templates, providing a more efficient and streamlined way of creating whiteboards in the classroom. This new feature enables teachers to create and save customized layouts and content, perfect for those who frequently use similar whiteboards or have a preferred layout that they use as a starting point. These templates can be shared with other teachers or with their students.

When: Rolling out Mid-February 2023

And finally, just to recap all the news we have for you this month, here's a quick review of all the features that are generally available or are rolling out now:
1. Classwork in Microsoft Teams

Bringing together and organizing a student's course resources

2. New Updates to Grading

Weighted grading categories

Showing average grades to students

3. Search Coach in Teams

Helps educators and students develop information literacy skills by forming effective queries and identifying reliable resources

4. Reading Progress - Comprehension questions

A new tool to help educators to assess not only students' fluency, but also their understanding - right in Reading Progress

5. Reading Coach in Immersive Reader for Teams Assignments

Enabling students to practice with content that aligns with their interests and focus, without the need for a teacher to make an assignment in Teams

6. Automatic lowering of hand in a meeting (in preview)

New feature to provide users who raise their hand in a Teams meeting and then speak, a notification informing them that their hand will automatically be lowered

7. New Teams Webinar Experience

8. "@ Mention" everyone in a Teams chat
9. Education Templates for Teams Meetings
10. Loop component support in Microsoft Whiteboard
11. Save and share templates in Microsoft Whiteboard

Have feedback or ideas to share? As always, we'd love to hear it!
We are always looking to improve the education experience in Teams, and our favorite way to do that is with your support and innovative ideas! If there is something you would like to see in Teams for Education, please let us know!

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Ed Tech

We teachers are the BEST at stealing things.

And I don't mean that in a criminal, nefarious way.

I think Austin Kleon explains it best in his book, Steal Like an Artist ...

Every artist gets asked the question, "Where do you get your ideas?" The honest artist answers, "I steal them."

How does an artist look at the world? First, you figure out what's worth stealing, then you move on to the next thing. That's about all there is to it.

I mean, it only makes sense. We teachers are notoriously short on time. (When you plan your bathroom breaks in advance, it's a good sign that you're time-strapped.)

Here's another thing about us teachers. We're also super generous. We share ideas with fellow educators, students ... really anyone who can benefit.

That means there's a lot of good stuff out there, but it isn't perfect for exactly what we need to do.

So, what do we do?

We steal.* Then we remix, reuse and repurpose. We assign it to our students.

Then we move on to the next thing.

Want to get better at this essential skill -- something that helps you get more done AND serve your students?

In this post you'll learn ...

How to find good material you can use in class

How to steal it (copy, remix, adjust, and assign)

How to cut WAY down on flashcard sets and review games you create

How to find pre-written lessons in popular apps

How to find "copy, adjust, and assign" lessons to use right away

Know of more resources? Please share them in the comments below. Because, you know ... we're generous ... and we like to enable other teachers' stealing habits!
*Note: Please always give credit to the original creator. We absolutely do not mean for anyone to steal other educator's ideas and pass them off as their own. Take, borrow, steal and remix as you like, and is allowed by CC and/or the creator, but give a shout out to the original creator when you share or present.

About the resource: Quizizz (quizizz.com) can be used as a simple multiple choice review game. It's student-paced, meaning that students answer questions on their own screen and only advance after they've answered a question personally. But it's much more than that! Quizizz has leveled up the game experience with fun power-ups and lots of response types (draw, match, poll, video, audio).

How to steal like a teacher: You can copy and edit any of the millions of publicly-available Quizizz games. Search for one in the Explore section. Open it and use the "Copy and Edit" button to add questions, change existing questions, or delete questions.

When you create a Quizizz game, you can "teleport" questions from other quizzes and lessons. Search with a keyword and use filters to narrow down your results. Click a quiz/lesson to see its questions. Then find questions you like and click "Add question" to put them into your quiz/lesson. The video below demonstrates teleportation. (Of Quizizz questions ... not real teleportation ... yet ...)

About the resource: HyperDocs are purposefully designed digital lessons and can transform your class. They truly are so much more than a doc with links. The creators of HyperDocs - Lisa Highfill, Kelly Hilton, and Sarah Landis - describe them as a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom.

How to steal like a teacher: You can browse HyperDocs Samples to find one that fits your needs. Go to File > Make a copy to get an editable version saved to your Google Drive.

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Steal Like a Teacher: Where to find quick teaching ideas

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Introducing the New and Improved Student Projects

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Need a fresh take on an old concept? Check out these FREE lessons from PBS Learning!

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PBS LearningMedia | Teaching Resources For Students And Teachers

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How to use the new Microsoft Teams Class Homepage

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Create a Reflect check-in

Help students build self-awareness and modify your lessons to reflect their needs by embedding Reflect for Learning check-ins in Class Notebook.

Important: To create a Reflect check-in in a Class Notebook, you must be a team owner.

1. Navigate to your desired team, then select Class Notebook.

2. Find the page you'd like students to assess their learning on.

3. Select the Class Notebook tab, then select Reflect. This will open a panel for you to build your check-in question.

4. Choose a check-in question from the available list.

5. Tap Add check-in to page.

Note: Check-ins can be added to any page in a Class Notebook. If it is in the content library, students will be able to respond even though they cannot edit the rest of the page. If it is in a distributed page, the results will be compiled for easy reading.

View check-in responses

As your students respond, their results will appear on your original page.

Choose any emoji or select Check-in details to see exactly which students responded with which emojis.

Select any bar graph to see the full list of students and their previous check in responses. This can identify trends of students who are consistently struggling or not being sufficiently challenged.

Use this data to differentiate support and decide what topics may need re-teaching.

See responses over time in Insights

You can view how students' responses change over time in Insights. Reflect check-ins are divided between those posted in a Teams channel and those embedded on a Class Notebook page.

Navigate to Insights, then select Reflect

Select In Class Notebook to view the check-in responses from questions you embedded in Class Notebook

From here you can select All reflections then choose a question to narrow your data to those check-ins, or use the calendar dropdown to change the timeframe

Respond to a Reflect check-in

Self-awareness and self-assessment are critical skills that help people learn and grow. When we are honest with ourselves and our educators about our strengths and weaknesses, we can actively work to improve our skills - and our educators can help us!

When you see a Reflect check-in in your Class Notebook, select an emoji to answer the question.

2. Select Submit.

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Help students build self-awareness and modify your lessons to reflect their needs by embedding Reflect for Learning check-ins in Class Notebook. Important: To create a Reflect check-in in a Class Notebook, you must be a team owner. Navigate to your desired team, then select Class Notebook.

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Back to School season is here! Are you ready? At Nearpod, teachers are at the center of everything we do and what you need is important to us. Your feedback helps guide how we develop our product, and we're committed to making impactful teaching more accessible by providing educators with the necessary tools. With our latest product updates for this back-to-school, teachers can expect easier lesson creation and delivery, improved reporting and insights, library updates, and streamlined workflows with a new integration.

Easier than ever to create and deliver engaging lessons right in Nearpod

Slide Editor and Toolbar

Get ready to create with our updated Slide Editor! While Nearpod is known for its interactive lessons and formative assessment tools, the ability to create, customize, and add slides is essential for developing effective instruction.Now with our Slide Editor updates, we've made it even easier for teachers to create engaging content without leaving Nearpod.

What's new with the Slide Editor and Toolbar?

1. Enhanced functionality, including drawing capabilities

2. Drawing, rich text, math formulas, lines, and shapes on favorite activities like Draw It, Drag & Drop, and Virtual Math Manipulatives*

*Exclusive to Nearpod Math Program

Teacher Dashboard

The Teacher Dashboard is the control center when navigating a lesson. To be effective, a dashboard must have the essential tools educators need to provide impactful instruction and give them the ability to pivot on the fly to address misconceptions. We listened to feedback from teachers like you to improve our Teacher Dashboard. Updates for Back to School might seem "small," but the impact is huge. In the newly designed dashboard, the teacher tools have been reorganized and refreshed for a more seamless lesson delivery experience.

What's new with Teacher Dashboard?

New slide carousel to easily navigate through lesson slides

Numbered slides in the slide carousel (no more counting slides! Yay!)

Ability to preview slide thumbnails before sharing with your class

Easier access to activities, Brain Breaks**, Whiteboard, & Live Annotation

**Exclusive to Nearpod's 21st Century Readiness Program

Redesigned Reports

You spoke, and we listened! Quick access to formative assessment data is crucial and allows educators to personalize instruction and identify learning gaps. For Back to School 2022, Nearpod has reimagined our Post Session Reports. This redesign includes the report summary and activity reports in addition to adding a new Student Report that displays a student's results for each activity in the lesson.

What's new with Post Session Reports?

Beautiful, modern, completely reimagined reporting interface

Improved reporting capabilities for key activities such as Time to Climb, Draw It, Open-Ended-Question, and more

Use new insights into the most frequently missed questions and misconception trends to drive your lessons and instruction

The new Student Report allows checking for understanding across all activities in the lesson for each student (coming Fall 2022)

Less time planning when 22,000+ lessons, videos, and activities are one click away

Enhanced Search & Enhanced Nearpod Library

Teachers' most valuable asset is their time. The days are full, commitments are never-ending, and demands are high. Walk through the corridors of any school, and you will see teachers involved in every facet of the school day. We are improving our users' search experience so they can access their content and launch lessons quickly. With these updates, teachers will spend less time searching and planning when 22,000+ lessons, videos, and activities are only one click away. Do more of what you love and less time searching for what you need.

What's new with enhanced search?

Search the Lesson Library, Programs, and My Library at once

Predictive suggestions that appear as you type

Search results are organized by assets type: lesson, activity, video

Completely redesigned filtering experience

What's new with the Nearpod Library?

Expanded Nearpod Library with 22,000+ total resources

8,500 Interactive Lessons

10,200 Interactive Videos

3,300 Games and Activities

Streamlined workflow with new integrations and connections

Official launch partner for Google Classroom add-ons!

Streamlining the workflow between teachers' most commonly used edtech tools has become more important than ever. Google recently announced its newest feature, Classroom add-ons, to simplify use and bring tools together. We're excited to bring you the Nearpod add-on to make using these two tools easier for teachers and students.

With the new Nearpod add-on, educators can do even more within Google Classroom:

Seamlessly assign Nearpod lessons to their entire class or individual students

Allow students to join Nearpod lessons without a code

View post-session reports and assign a grade

Excited about this? So are we! Take a deeper dive into learning more about the Google Classroom add-on.
The Google Classroom add-on is available for schools and districts that subscribe to Google's Workspace for Education Teaching and Learning Upgrade or Education Plus editions. Google Classroom admin must enable Nearpod as an add-on before it is available to be used by teachers and students.
Star Assessment to Nearpod connection

As school leaders seek to minimize the impact of disrupted learning, teachers need more support than ever to meet students where they are at. More than 80 million Star assessments are taken each year to show students' strengths and weaknesses, but now what? Teachers don't have the time to create unique lesson plans for every student, and even if they did, where do they find all of those materials?

The Star to Nearpod connection gives teachers insights they can act on right away by recommending high-quality Nearpod lessons, activities, or videos directly in Star. Recommendations to Nearpod resources are based on the Star assessment results of individual students, a small group, or the entire class. Without spending any additional time, teachers know where their students need help and what they can do to make the biggest impact.

Nearpod turns Star assessment data into actionable insights for the classroom, eliminating guesswork and empowering teachers to improve learning outcomes.

This exciting new connection is now available for Star Math, Star Reading, and Start Early Literacy.

We hope you are as excited about these new product updates as we are, after all - they were fueled by your feedback! Teachers are at the center of everything we do, we're determined to provide you the tools and resources you need so you can focus on doing more of what you love - delivering impactful instruction and positive student outcomes.

Here's to a great Back to School season - you've got this, and we've got you!

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Back to School season is here! Are you ready? At Nearpod, teachers are at the center of everything we do and what you need is important to us. Your feedback helps guide how we develop our product, and we're committed to making impactful teaching more accessible by providing educators with the necessary tools.

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Anchor your teaching strategies in data: New Assignments and grades report in Education Insights

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To empower educators and education leaders to proactively support students in diverse learning settings, Education Insights provides real time analytics on student engagement, learning progress and wellbeing. Learning progress data in Insights’ Assignments and grades report just got richer, more inf…

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March Updates

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Hello there. How has 2022 been for you and your family thus far? We hope you and your loved ones are doing all right.

In case you missed it, earlier this week we shared some important updates on how Microsoft is helping to improve literacy and reading fluency for learners of all ages with Reading Progress and Reading Coach. Literacy is key to learning. We encourage you to take a look at last week's announcements from the Microsoft education blog or learn more about Microsoft EDU's literacy solutions at https://aka.ms/ReadingFluency.

Let's do this! Here's what's on the agenda for today.

1. Support student achievement with dialogue between educators and guardians

2. Get more done with new features from Assignments

3. Advance reading fluency with Reading Progress

4. Help students consider their learning journey with Reflect in OneNote

5. Hold more effective class sessions with Teams Rooms, Whiteboard, OneNote, & Teams Meetings

6. Help students prepare for the future with updates to Career Coach

7. Collaborate using OneDrive and Office 365 in Canvas LMS

8. Deliver powerful learning experiences with solutions from Teams partners

9. Explore Teams features available for public preview

10. Learn more about Teams at an upcoming event

Or click here to jump right into a quick list of new features without extra descriptions.

1. Support student achievement with dialogue between educators and guardians

Introducing Parent Connection
Parents & guardians, students, and educators all want the same thing - for every student to reach their potential. Educators carry a heavy portion of this responsibility, but they can't do it alone. We launched Parent Connection to help educators more effectively involve the parents & guardians of the class to productively support their students' achievement.

With Parent Connection, educators can see the roster of the parents & guardians in their class and initiate a Teams chat, phone call or email with them with a single click. So now, instead of the twice-yearly parent-teacher conference or sporadic email, educators and guardians can provide more iterative updates back and forth to help manage & track their student's progress.

And since the interaction happens over Teams, educators can communicate with parents & guardians while keeping their personal contact information private.

Parent Connection is generally available to all Teams for Education customers (included in all Office365 A-SKUS). Learn more here, or talk with your IT administrator about setting up Parent Connection using School Data Sync.

When: Available now

2. Get more done with new features from Assignments
Take action on behalf of your student
Available for both individual & group assignments, educators can now turn-in and upload documents in the Assignments grading tool on behalf of their students. This capability has been one of the top requests in the Microsoft Teams feedback portal and we're so glad to bring it to life. Keep sending us your ideas!
When: Available now Notify me when students turn in late work
It's true: sometimes pets really do eat their students' homework. To help, we have added the ability for educators to be notified when students turn in a late assignment. You can get notified for any assignment that's turned in late, or only specific assignments.

When: Rolling out now Assignments Notification customizations
Speaking of notifications, you can now customize the notifications associated with Assignments using the settings menu in Microsoft Teams (in the 3 dots menu to the left of your photo). And you can also get direct access to the assignment from your Teams activity feed.

When: Available now Giving you space to grade with the mini grader
With this update to the grading experience in Assignments, you can choose to collapse or expand the grading view, allowing you to allocate your screen real estate as you see fit. With the mini grader you can still navigate pages, assign points, or return to the submission to the student, while the expanded view is best-suited for providing written feedback.
When: Rolling out now
New Apps Content
This past November we launched Apps in Assignments - a new experience that allows educators to add content apps like Flipgrid or Nearpod for students to view and use in an assignment. This month we're excited to share that Edpuzzle and GoConqr are also now available.

3. Advance reading fluency with Reading Progress

The pandemic had a dramatic impact on unfinished learning, creating the urgent need for students and educators to catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Experts underscore how reading fluency is critical to a student's academic success and in the 2020-2021 school year, on average first through sixth graders are 4 months behind on reading compared to their pre-pandemic counterparts, with students in lower income areas even more adversely affected. This is why it is critical that every student get an opportunity to become fluent readers.
To support this effort, last July we launched Reading Progress, a free tool to help teachers improve the process of creating, collecting, and reviewing reading assignments with powerful data and insights. In addition to being awarded the Research-based Design certification from Digital Promise, we've received positive responses from teachers and reading specialists which is a testament to just how important this topic is. Along with the inspiring stories of development, we've also received amazing feedback for how we can enhance these experiences and have a more positive impact on students, teachers, and administrators.

Last week we announced several significant updates, together forming a more well-rounded solution which supports reading fluency and literacy instruction, allowing schools and educators to optimize teacher-student interactions, and delivering the education support each student needs in an individualized, practical, and equitable way. We're excited to again share the product experiences that will be available in the coming days.
Actionable Insights and personalized Reading Progress assignments
Reading Progress enables readers of all types to practice their skills in a safe, student-centric environment while providing educators with deep insights on each student's strengths, progress, and challenges. With Actionable Insights, we're helping educators quickly generate assignments based on the words that students struggled with most. With a single click from Insights, educators can generate a new word list assignment for an individual student, all the students at a particular reading level, or for the class as a whole.

When: Available now
Return for Revision
We've made improvements to the student experience when an educator returns a Reading Progress assignment for revision. Reading assignments can now be returned for revision so students can see fully marked up passages from their teachers to learn from their mistakes and re-do the assignment.
When: Available now
Customizable Report to return details to students
In November, we rolled out the top-requested Return to Student feature in Reading Progress, which allows educators to choose which type of report to return to the student after the teacher has reviewed the fluency passage. This report lets students watch their video, see which errors they made, and hear the correct way to pronounce words. The two initial report options for the educator were the full report or a more simplified report.

Today, we have rolled out a 3rd option, which allows the educator to fully customize the report for each student. Now educators can tailor the experience to meet the needs of each learner.

When: Available now Video recording for Reading Progress on iOS and Android
With this update, students using Reading Progress across the desktop, web, and mobile Teams applications can all record themselves performing Reading Progress exercises.

When: Rolling out now
Use OneNote Class Notebook pages as reading passages
Currently, educators can pick reading passages from ReadWorks, a Teams file, OneDrive, or uploading from their computer. We have now added the ability to pick a page from a OneNote Class Notebook in your Class Teams! This will be rolling out starting today.

When: Rolling out now

New languages supported in auto-detect
When Reading Progress launched this August, the auto-detect feature was only available in English. With this update, auto-detect capability will be available in over 100 languages. Find a list of languages supported here.
When: Available now Track reading fluency at the school or district-wide level with Education Insights Premium
School leaders have frequently requested the ability to view reading data across a broader segment of a grade, school or system. With Education Insights Premium, school leaders have access to grade-level or whole school views of reading accuracy and speed, the number of reading fluency assignments happening, and even aggregated data on challenging words. We've added our first set of Reading Progress reports to Education Insights Premium, with more planned as Reading Progress gains additional tools. School systems can also take this reading data and export it into Power BI or other data analysis tools.

When: Available now

4. Help students consider their learning journey with Reflect in OneNote

Until now, Reflect has primarily been a tool that helps students (and teachers) build self-awareness around their emotions. With the addition of Reflect for learning in OneNote, educators can build in opportunities for students to self-assess their learning in context. Educators can embed a Reflect for learning poll in OneNote Class Notebooks to challenge students to evaluate aspects of the learning process, including their:

Progress and satisfaction in learning

Motivation to learn

Confidence

Effort

Self-awareness and self-management are critical skills for lifelong learning - by providing opportunities for students to reflect on their learning educators not only inform the trajectory of their teaching, but also increase students' agency in learning. Students can practice asking for help and develop a growth mindset through honestly evaluating their effort, motivation, and progress. It is vital that students have a safe space to develop these skills, as it takes plenty of practice!

Using the OneNote Class Notebook toolbar, educators can easily insert a Reflect for learning poll that is contextualized right on the Class Notebook page. These can be used as quick and easy pre and post assessments, or as "exit slips" to help inform the next lesson. Get step-by-step support for embedding Reflect check-ins in Class Notebook.

When: Rolling out now
5. Hold more effective class sessions with Teams Rooms, Whiteboard, OneNote & Teams Meetings
Front row layout for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows
For hybrid learning to truly be an effective, engaging experience, in-person and remote participants need to have equal opportunity to chime in. Front row is a new layout for Teams that puts remote attendees at the room's eye level and moves chat and a roster of participants to the front of the room.

When: Available now Switch between multiple video cameras in Teams Rooms on Windows
With this update, educators using Teams Rooms with more than one video camera attached can switch between cameras by choosing from the list of available cameras.

When: Available now

See Aggregated reaction tags for sticky notes in whiteboards
Now, you can "like" your favorite ideas or provide feedback to your colleagues during brainstorms. Previously, this was done by dropping sticker-like emojis on the board but these new reaction tags are easier to use because they follow the sticky notes, are easier to see, are aggregated into buckets, and give you greater visibility into each reaction.
When: Available now Add photos and files to whiteboards on mobile devices

Take a picture of your whiteboard or your teaching material with your phone and quickly add it to your digital Whiteboard. Now, users on mobile devices will be able to share content directly from the photo gallery or camera on their mobile device to a Whiteboard in Teams.
When: Rolling out in April Additional Whiteboard improvements

OneNote Live Captions allow inclusive note-taking

With new copy & paste controls you can drag & drop images from your computer directly into a Whiteboard. You can also annotate or collect feedback on content pasted into Whiteboard. Available now.

New zoom controls will help you navigate the Whiteboard with more precision. Instead of using your mouse wheel or pinch zoom, use the magnifying glasses to zoom in and out or use the preset zoom levels. If you lose your place, you can use the "fit to screen" button to zoom out and see everything on the board. Available now.

New EDU-specific whiteboarding templates will help you quickly create a lesson plan, a brainstorming session, or an exit ticket. The new templates even provide ideas on how to run your session. Available now.

With Bing image search educators and students will be able to add license-free and safe images to their Whiteboards. Rolling out in April.

The new Ruler will help students project straight lines, understand relative distances, draw angles, and act as a guide for reading. Rolling out in April.

Starting in April, Whiteboards will be stored in OneDrive alongside all your other Office files. Whiteboards will share the same permission logic, version history, file copy tools as other Office files and will be search-able (by board title or content) on Office.com. Rolling out in April.

New laser pointer and collaborative cursors will make teamwork easier by helping to make clear where Whiteboard collaborators should be looking. Rolling out in April.

With new external access, guests and anonymous Teams meeting participants will also be able to access the Whiteboard. Rolling out in April.

When: Available now on all platforms except OneNote Desktop
With OneNote Live Captions, students can listen to a lecture, presentation, or other meeting while live streaming captions in any of 60+ languages right within OneNote. OneNote Live Captions fuses Microsoft Translator with OneNote, and lets the educator set up a Translator session that any student with OneNote can then connect to, and choose from 60+ languages to translate the educator's conversation into. Students can pause and highlight the live captions, and a copy of the transcript is automatically saved into a "Transcripts" section to allow students to easily return to the lecture captions. To see OneNote Live Captions in action, watch this video.

Order of raised hands
In case you missed it, Teams can you help know who to call on first to speak. Using the Participants panel, you can now see which students have raised their hands and in what order they raised their hand.
When: Available now

When: Available now Music mode for Teams
Custom backgrounds available on web
Custom backgrounds are now available for Teams on the web! You can now blur your background or select from Microsoft-provided backgrounds during your video meeting or call, making your meetings more fun and personal. Note that blurring or replacing your background may not prevent sensitive information from being visible to other people in the meeting.

High-fidelity music mode enables Microsoft Teams users to experience richer sound experiences when sharing non-speech content such as during a music lesson, concert or recording. High-fidelity music mode enables significantly improved audio quality in Teams calls and meetings. The optimized experience in Teams applies to signals captured by microphones as well as audio played while sharing an application or desktop. Learn how to experience high-fidelity audio in Teams.
When: Available now

Mirror my video
Tired of worrying that your online students see the text on your in-hand whiteboard backwards? Although the online audience sees the text correctly, you see the text flipped. In Teams you can now un-mirror your video to see your video, background and text as your students do. To enable this, go to Device Settings and toggle off Mirror my video.
When: Available now

Word cloud poll for Teams meeting
For Microsoft Forms polls in Teams meetings, there is a new option for engaging with your participants - Word Cloud Poll. You can use this type of poll to collect open-ended responses before, during, or after a class session or meeting, and the results will be automatically aggregated and displayed as a word cloud.

6. Help students prepare for the future with updates to Career Coach

Career Coach is a Microsoft Teams app powered by LinkedIn that provides personalized guidance for higher education students to discover potential career paths, grow real-world skills and build their professional network. Recent updates to Career Coach include:
When: Available now

Connect message templates - Students can now select a message to include with their LinkedIn connection invitation to school alumni.

Integration with edX content - Career Coach will now feature edX content, an online course provider, within the learning experience.

Job market trends - Faculty and staff license holders will now be able to view location-based job market trends within Career Coach. This experience is powered by LinkedIn hiring data.

7. Collaborate using OneDrive and Office 365 in Canvas LMS

OneDrive LTI for Canvas LMS
The wait is over! The Microsoft OneDrive LTI is now generally available for all Canvas customers. Microsoft OneDrive LTI brings the best of OneDrive and Office365 directly into Canvas. Educators can access their OneDrive files right within Canvas, add Office 365 files to modules and assignments, and grade Office 365 files in the Canvas SpeedGrader. Students can work on Office 365 cloud assignments, submit OneDrive files directly from Canvas in response to their assignments, and collaborate using Office 365 files within Canvas.

The new Microsoft OneDrive LTI has several exciting new features:

Users can add multiple OneDrive school accounts

Fully supports Canvas course copy

New and improved OneDrive file picker experience

Link or embed Office 365 files in modules and assignments

Use Office 365 files in Canvas Collaborations

And more!

To help you prepare for deploying this integration, we have provided the following resources:

If you'd like deployment assistance, please visit our scheduling form and select LTI Integrations Deployment to book a convenient day and time that works best for you and your team, including your Canvas administrator and your Microsoft tenant administrator.

8. Deliver powerful learning experiences with solutions from Teams partners

With more EdTech partners integrating their solutions with Teams, educators and students worldwide get new opportunities to accelerate their daily learning. Check out some of the latest app releases below:

Panopto's new Teams integration enables Teams users to securely search, play, share, and manage their Panopto videos entirely within Teams. Purpose built for learning, Panopto delivers fast, intuitive workflows that enhance learning and productivity. With Panopto's Smart Search and Smart Chapters features, Teams users can now search every word spoken or written in a video, and view a snapshot of key moments from a meeting, directly within their Teams environments. This will be helpful for higher education and enterprise learning environments that wish to combine synchronous and asynchronous video management into an easy-to-use, unified experience.

Edpuzzle lets you turn passive videos into active, self-paced learning experiences. Choose a video from our library of ready-to-go video lessons or create your own with embedded questions that check for comprehension and promote critical thinking skills. Then, use real-time analytics to track student progress and get insights into how to best support your students. Edpuzzle can be flexibly used to introduce new topics, reinforce classroom learning at home, or as part of your station rotations.

GoConqr by Examtime provides a range of free tools for teaching and learning. From brainstorming and note-taking to testing and revising, find everything you need with our suite of tools for creating mind maps, flashcards, quizzes, slides, flowcharts, and notes.

To learn more about other Teams for Education partner news from buncee, ClickView, EasyCorrect, Examtime, FeedbackFruits, Glose for Education, Nearpod & Testportal, check out our February partner blog.

9. Explore Teams features available for public preview

Meeting co-organizer for private and channel meetings
Are you interested in getting access to unreleased features in Microsoft Teams? Previews allow you to explore, test and provide feedback on any feature in public preview. Public preview is enabled per Teams user, so you don't need to worry about affecting your entire organization.

Meeting organizers will now be able to share control by assigning the new "Co-organizer" role to up to 10 people they invite to a meeting. Co-organizers will be granted most of the capabilities of the organizer in the meeting, including being able to access & modify the options for the meeting.

When: Available now in preview
For a list of all current Teams Public Preview features, visit: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-public-preview/bd-p/MicrosoftTeamsPublicPrevi...

To learn how to join the public preview, visit: https://docs.microsoft.com/MicrosoftTeams/public-preview-doc-updates

10. Learn more about Teams & get inspired at an upcoming event

BETT UK 2022 March 23-25
Bett will be taking place in-person at London ExCeL March 23-25. Pulling forward the equity messaging launched during Reimagine, we will have keynotes and sessions across six Bett theaters as well as our own booth and in-booth theater. For more information about the event, go to www.bettshow.com or directly to our Hub on the Bett site. Join the Bett 2022 event distribution list to stay up to date on all communications.

Teams for Education training event March 29-30
Join us and learn the latest and greatest in Microsoft Teams for Education. Microsoft Teams for Education experts will share common scenarios and use cases as well as answer your questions live. Topics will include:
Next #TeamsEduChat TweetMeet March 22 7am PST / 2pm GMT on literacy and reading fluency

How to use Microsoft Teams for hybrid learning.

Updates on latest capabilities of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams.

Examples from educators and IT staff on how they use Teams today.

Best practices for synchronous teaching and learning.

Register here.
Microsoft E2 | Education Exchange kicks off on March 15
TweetMeets are monthly, global, and multilingual Twitter chats around a specific topic relevant for educators. TweetMeets usually occur every 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7am PST / 10am EST / 2pm GMT but this month's gathering is March 22. TweetMeets are slow chats; this means that if these hours are less convenient for you, you can join the conversation at a time that better suits you.

This month's TweetMeet will focus on literacy and reading fluency. Please join us on Twitter on March 22 at #TeamsEduChat.

For the last eight years, Microsoft E2 | Education Exchange has brought education changemakers together from around the globe. They collaborate on teaching and learning strategies, share solutions that impact student outcomes, get energized by inspirational speakers, and network with other educators and school leaders. With the ongoing pandemic, we continue to host this incredible event online with our MIE Experts, Showcase Schools, and Leaders of Digital Transformation in Education.

For a chance to be a part of this incredible community, become a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert or have your school join the Showcase Schools Program.

We invite all educators to join the Microsoft Learn Educator Center and work toward becoming a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert (MIEE). If your school is on a journey of digital transformation, consider joining the Showcase Schools program to benefit from the support of Microsoft, its partners, and a community of worldwide school leaders on the same journey as you.

We hope you'll join the community.

11. And for those that love lists, here's a quick review of all the features we shared that are generally available or rolling out now...

1. Support student achievement with dialogue between educators and guardians

2. Get more done with new features from Assignments

Turn in and upload assignments on behalf of students

Get notified when students turn in late work

Customize your Assignments notifications

Mini grader (rolling out)

Apps in Assignments integrations from EdPuzzle and GoConqr

3. Advance reading fluence with Reading Progress

Actionable Insights and personalized Reading Progress assignments (rolling out)

Return for revision

Customizable report to return details to students

Video recording for Reading Progress on iOS and Android (rolling out)

Pick a passage from a OneNote Class Notebook (rolling out)

New languages supported in auto-detect (rolling out)

School or district-wide reading fluency reports in Education Insights Premium (rolling out)

4. Help students consider their learning journey with Reflect in OneNote
Reflect in OneNote (rolling out)

5. Hold more effective class sessions with Teams Rooms, Whiteboard, OneNote & Teams Meetings

Teams rooms
i. Front row layout for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows
ii. Switch between multiple video cameras in Teams Rooms on Windows

Whiteboard
i. See Aggregated reaction tags for sticky notes in whiteboards
ii. Add photos and files to whiteboards on mobile devices (April)
iii. Additional Whiteboard improvements like Zoom controls, Bing image search (April) & storage in OneDrive (April)

OneNote
i. OneNote Live Captions allow inclusive note-taking (rolling out for web)

Teams Meetings
i. Order of raised hands
ii. Custom background & live captions in all available languages on web
iii. Music mode for Teams
iv. Mirror my video
v. Word cloud poll for Teams meeting

6. Help students prepare for the future with updates to Career Coach

Connect message templates

Integration with edX content

Job market trends

7. Collaborate using OneDrive and Office 365 in Canvas LMS
OneDrive LTI for Canvas LMS

8. Deliver powerful learning experiences with solutions from Teams partners

Panopto

EdPuzzle

GoConqr by Examtime

9. Explore Teams features available for public preview
Meeting co-organizer for private and channel meetings (public preview)

Have any feedback? Please share with us!
We are always looking to improve the education experience in Teams, and our favorite way to do that is with your support and awesome ideas! If there is something you would like to see in Teams for Education, please let us know!

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At Nearpod, we're always looking for unique ways to support teachers. This winter, we're releasing new updates for your favorite Nearpod features, such as Collaborate Board, Time to Climb, and more. Keep reading to see a full list of winter updates and how you can use them in your classroom!

Create even more impactful instruction with Nearpod

As a teacher, you know how powerful it is when you have an incredibly engaging lesson or classroom discussion. Students are energized, motivated, and excited to learn more which boosts student achievement and outcomes. Great lessons empower classrooms and bring in opportunities to build community, master a new academic concept, and give teachers feedback on exactly where students may need additional support or enrichment. However, creating truly effective lessons that accomplish all of these things at once can be challenging. Many teachers struggle to ensure that every student has a voice in a lesson or classroom discussion. Others may grapple with creating engaging lessons that are also meaningful and purposefully aligned with lesson and curriculum objectives. Students struggle to stay motivated to learn in less engaging or empowering lessons.

According to the EdWeek Research Center students and teachers surveyed found that student motivation and morale are lower now than they were prior to the pandemic (2021).

50% of students surveyed self-reported less motivation, and 49% reported a lower morale.

The teachers surveyed on the same student motivation and morale reported that 87% of students were less motivated and 82% had even lower morale compared to before the pandemic.
To help solve the challenges of low student engagement and morale, we're excited to announce new Collaborate Board features and Time to Climb enhancements. These incredible updates will make it easier than ever for teachers to re-engage their students and help students feel heard, included, and empowered in the classroom.

1. Bring student-centered discussions into Nearpod with Collaborate Board's newest features

As part of supporting student engagement and impactful instruction, we are introducing a new and reimagined Collaborate Board that encourages student-centered discussions. This interactive discussion board allows for 100% student participation as well as provides students to engage with multiple and diverse perspectives.
With these latest updates, Collaborate Board offers:

New themes and backgrounds

Ability to add more reference media

New media options for students' posts

Ability for students to reply to posts*

Ability for teachers to organize posts into columns*

*Available in a School/District Premium Plus license only
With Nearpod's reference media in Collaborate Board, teachers can now scaffold and differentiate for student needs by allowing them to access images, PDFs, web content, videos, or audio files during a Collaborate Board discussion.

Collaborate Board's new media options enable students to add videos, audio recordings, and GIFs to their Collaborate board responses in addition to text and images.

For school and district users with a Premium Plus license, teachers will also have the ability to sort student responses into columns so students can organize their ideas. Additionally, Premium Plus users can allow students to thread replies to posts on a Collaborate Board, ensuring classroom discussions are student-centered and give students the opportunity to learn and add to each others' contributions, providing a platform for true collaboration and communication.

2. Transform quizzes into instructional moments with new Time to Climb enhancements
With these new enhancements, Time to Climb options increase to bring you:
Using games to supplement learning experiences in the classroom is a wonderful way to re-engage students. With the latest updates to Time to Climb, teachers will be able to turn those fun, gamified moments into instructional opportunities.

Time to Climb is a teacher favorite for gamified quizzes in the Nearpod platform. In this gamified multiple-choice quiz, students answer questions correctly and quickly to race to the top of a mountain.

New themes

Multiple correct answers

Volume controls

Pausing between questions

All new teacher data on the dashboard

New themes available in Time to Climb include beach, carnival, and sports adding to the existing underwater, space, mountain, and seasonal themes already included. These new themes will be available all year long, while our Valentine's, Halloween, and Winter Holiday themes will continue to be accessible during these holiday time frames.

Time to Climb users will now be able to create questions with multiple correct answers. Additionally, we know many teachers asked for more volume controls, which are now available. Both the teacher and student can access volume controls for smoother game play both in person and in virtual classrooms.

Two new features in Time to Climb are the ability to pause between questions and the ability to view data on student understanding in the Teacher Dashboard as students are playing. With the new capability to pause and student data, these features allow teachers to strengthen instructions and address any student misconceptions. Teachers can guide their instruction while engaging students and access additional data insights on every quiz question.

3. Save time creating lessons, videos, and activities with a growing library of standards-aligned resources

The support for teachers continues in how you prepare and how you teach. Our library of resources continues to expand, providing more options to meet the specific learning needs of students. Once you have chosen or built your lesson we have also made it easier to share that lesson with students with a new Teacher Dashboard.

We know that lesson resources are plentiful across the web, but we want to make searching and using quality lessons easier. The Nearpod lesson library has lessons that support differentiation, provides resources to fill in gaps in the core learning and meet the interests of students in the classroom. The new lesson, videos and activities add up to more time working with students and less time searching the web. Our latest release of new lessons, videos, and activities includes:

4. Access student responses in real-time and more with the new Teacher Dashboard

The update to the Teacher Dashboard in a Live lesson is one of those subtle but powerful changes. Everything you have always loved is still there, just in perhaps a slightly different spot, plus everything you didn't even know you wanted!

The Teacher Dashboard includes a new Menu that keeps your key teacher tools handy but out of the way, such as the option to add an activity on the fly or the option to send your post session report to your email. But the best tool in that Menu is the Presentation option. This button opens a student view of the Nearpod lesson in a new window. This window can quickly be pushed to another screen for easy viewing from the front of the room leaving the teacher screen private for you.

Quickly and easily access the Whiteboard option from the Teacher Dashboard, allowing you to slide a blank screen in front of your lesson on student devices for an impromptu example or additional explanation. Close it when you are done and move on with the lesson.

But the favorite update only appears when you need it! When you include an Open Ended Question, Matching Pairs, Draw It , Poll or Quiz in your lesson you will see the new Student Teacher toggle button. The Activity opens in student view automatically, giving you the option to model or provide instructions. Then you can click Teacher to toggle to quickly see student responses. Need to go back and discuss part of the Activity, toggle back to Student. Modeling for students has never been easier!

We're so excited to see you put these updates to use with your students! Remember to stay up to date with our Nearpod Updates blog post to see what's new biweekly. We're always releasing new enhancements, features, lessons, and activities to support you and your students.
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Using games to supplement learning experiences in the classroom is a wonderful way to re-engage students. With the latest updates to Time to Climb, teachers will be able to turn those fun, gamified moments into instructional opportunities.

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9. Digital Citizenship Community Conversation - Digital Safety with Flipgrid: Hear from Flipgrid Trust & Safety team member Sonia Dela Cruz to learn more about privacy, security best practices, and educator control options to ensure an inclusive and safe learning environment. Watch it here.

10. Back To School Discovery Library Collection: Our updated Back-to-School Discovery Library Collection includes topics on name pronunciations, family introductions, and goal setting, as well as ready-to-use discussion prompts around equity in our classrooms and communities, embracing change throughout the school year, and thoughtful, culturally-responsive teaching for your curriculum.

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With Live to Student-Paced on Nearpod, teachers can easily switch between synchronous and asynchronous teaching modes within a single lesson for greater flexibility to differentiate for student needs and meet them where they're at. With Live to Student-Paced, teachers are able to:

Give students more targeted feedback when addressing misconceptions with more ways to use your instruction time flexibly

Let students who are ready for the next step move forward in the lesson while working with those who need more support

In this article, we will look at Live to Student-Paced lessons for both teachers and students.

Note: This feature is available for Premium Plus licenses

Teacher Experience

1. First, launch a Live lesson from your Nearpod account.

2. Students can join the lesson and the teacher can move the class through the slides that they want to use in Live lesson mode.

3. When you are ready to switch from Live to Student-paced mode, click on "Student-Paced Off" in the bottom right corner of the teacher dashboard.

4. A pop-up window will appear in the bottom corner when you can select which slides to all for Student-Paced. Turning on Student-Paced will always start on the slide the teacher is on. The student is not able to move to any slide prior to one the teacher started Student-Paced.

5. Teachers can choose the slides that students can move at their pace through. By default, the last slide of the presentation is selected. Use the drop-down menu to select a different ending slide number. Click "Turn on" to toggle Student-Paced on for students.

6. A pop-up message will appear letting you know that moving through the slides on the Teacher dashboard won't affect what the student sees until Student-Paced is turned off. Click "Got it" to close the message.

7. You will now see a message in the bottom right corner that Student-Paced mode is on. You can turn it off at any time in the lesson by clicking "Turn Off."

8. If you turn off Student-Paced, a message will appear on the teacher screen stating that the teacher is back in control of the lesson pace. Click "Got it" to resume the lesson in Live mode. All students will be brought to the slide the teacher is currently on.

9. If you want to update the ending slide number that students can access while Student-paced mode is on, select a different slide number from the drop-down menu and then select "Update." Upon confirmation, any student ahead of the new range will be automatically brought to the start of the range. Any previous work will remain.

Student Experience

1. From the student screen, once the teacher turns on Student-Paced mode, they will see a message that they can now work at their own pace.

2. Blue arrows will appear on the side of their Nearpod lesson. This will allow them to move forward and backward in the lesson to any slides that the teacher has set as Student-Paced.

3. When they get to the last slide that the teacher has selected for Student-Paced mode, they will only see the left arrow. They can move back in the lesson to review the slides the teacher made available for Student-Paced, but they cannot move further to new slides until the teacher is ready.

4. When the teacher turns Student-Paced off, all students in the lesson will move to the slide that the teacher is currently on.

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Drag & Drop is an activity that gives students a way to sort, order, or organize pre-created items (usually images, words, or shapes) sequentially or in thematic groups and practice higher-level critical thinking skills to show what they know in new ways.

In the classroom, this type of activity can be used for many instructional practice scenarios. Here are just a few:

Sorting into categories & charts

Ordering events along a timeline

Sequencing sentences or paragraphs

Labeling diagrams

Pointing out parts of an image

In this article, you will learn how to:

Note: This feature is available for Gold, Platinum, Premium & Premium Plus licenses

Teach with Drag & Drop

Teaching a Nearpod lesson with a Drag & Drop activity provides teachers and students with even more ways to collect real-time formative assessment data, address misconceptions, differentiate, and help students show what they know in ways that meet their needs in the classroom. In this section, we will look at how educators can teach with the Drag & Drop activities.

When students reach a Drag & Drop activity in a Nearpod lesson, they will see a set of instructions at the top, a list of draggable objects on the left, and a workspace on the right.

Students can drag the objects on the left and drop them anywhere on the workspace to demonstrate their understanding during the activity. Each object can be dragged multiple times on the workspace.

When objects are brought onto the workspace, students can select any object by clicking on it and a trashcan will appear. Click on the trashcan to delete the object from the workspace.

The student can click on the trashcan at the bottom right of the screen to clear the entire workspace and start over. When the task is complete, the student will click Submit.

As the teacher, you can view progress in real-time for the entire class:

A black banner will appear until students have started the activity.

A yellow banner will appear to show students that are in progress.

A green banner will appear once students submit the assignment as complete.

The teacher can click on the thumbnail for any student to view their work in more detail. The blue arrows on the sides of the preview can be used to navigate through to see the work of the rest of the class.

The teacher can anonymously push student work out to the class once the student has submitted their response by clicking on the Share button.

For Student-Paced lessons, the teacher can use the View Progress option to see student work on a Drag & Drop activity. This will be the same view a teacher would see for a Drag & Drop activity in a Live lesson.

Drag & Drop responses can be found in the Nearpod post-session reports.

Add a Drag & Drop activity into your Nearpod lesson

In this section, we will look at how you can create a Drag & Drop activity to your Nearpod lesson by:

Create the Slide and Instructions

1. While editing your lesson, select "Add Content and Activities."

2. Choose Drag & Drop from the Activities tab.

3. Use the rich text options to create a prompt for students or provide instructions for the task. You can use the formatting tools to adjust the size and appearance of the text. Click on the three dots on the far right to access additional mathematics formatting tools and the Math Formula editor.

Adding a Background

1. Click Add background in the bottom right to select from some premade backgrounds or upload your own. Use the arrows on the sides of the panel to navigate through the premade backgrounds and click on any background to add it to the slide.

2. Click Upload image to add your own background image. You can upload an image from a Google search, your local computer, Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive.

3. Once you select a background, you will see a set of icons that can be used to rotate or flip the image, adjust the size, or select a new background.

4. You can add to the background of your Drag & Drop activity by using the arrow, pen, text, and eraser tool on the bottom of the screen. This will allow the teacher to place pre-set text or annotations on the background of the slide.

5. You can use the arrows on the bottom right of the screen to undo and redo actions or use the trash can to erase everything on the slide, including the background.

Adding Draggable Objects

1. To add draggable objects to the activity that you want students to place onto the slide, click on Images or Text on the left side of the activity. You can choose to have image or text objects for the students to drag & drop during the activity.

2. If you choose to add images, click on the +Add Image button. You will be able to add images via a Google Search or by uploading from your computer, Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive.

3. Once you select your image, it will appear on the workspace. You can choose a size using the dropdown or delete the object with the trashcan. Click Done to add it to the activity.

4. If you select Text objects, you will have a space to type in your text. Type your first text object and click OK. The text object will appear in your workspace, where you can choose the size similar to what you can do with the image objects.

5. Once an item has been added, it will appear in the Drag & Drop Items section on the right side of the screen. Repeat this process to add all draggable objects into the activity.

6. Click on the object if you would like to edit, duplicate, or delete it from the activity.

7. Once you have added all the draggable objects, and added a workspace background and instructions if needed, click on Save to add the activity to your lesson.

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July 30, 2021

New Drag & Drop (launched 8/2)

New Nearpod Originals

New Nearpod Collections Content
July 16, 2021

New Nearpod Originals

New Nearpod Collections Content
July 02, 2021

New Nearpod Original Videos
June 18, 2021

New Nearpod Original Videos
June 04, 2021

New Nearpod Original Videos
May 21, 2021

New Nearpod Original Videos May 07, 2021 - New to the Nearpod Lesson Library

65+ Nearpod Training Videos - Tutorials and how-tos on Nearpod. Includes videos in Spanish and English

PBS Kids - 12 lessons added to the Elinor Wonders Why collection, including 10 lessons in Spanish

May 07, 2021 - New Nearpod Original Videos

Idioms

Lines of Symmetry

Democracy in Ancient Greece

Memorial Day

Types of Triangles

April 23, 2021 - New Nearpod Original Videos April 9, 2021 - New Nearpod Original Videos

The Lost Colony of Roanoke

Alliteration & Assonance

Vowels

Ruby Bridges

Types of Angles

Subject-Verb Agreement

March 29, 2021 - Lessons on using Nearpod
Need a way to teach students how to use Nearpod? Try these lessons:
March 29, 2021 - New Nearpod Original Videos
We're expanding our library of Nearpod Original Videos (check them all out here!). We've recently added lessons on lots of topics, including:

Respect

End Punctuation

Correlation & Causation

The Skeletal System

Sacagawea

Internet Safety

Plot Structure

Why Do We Need Fractions?

Growth Mindset

March 22, 2021 - iOS update! Have teachers and students update their app for these updates:

Rich text for OEQs, Quizzes, and Polls

Support for math formulas

Co-teaching support

March 15, 2021 - Co-Teaching with Nearpod Note: this feature is available to teachers with a school or district Premium Plus license. To learn more about our license types, visit nearpod.com/features.pdf.

Get real-time insights into learning so both can see what every student knows in the moment

Control the pace of the lesson for seamless co-instruction

February 25, 2021 - SEL Check-Ins
February 25, 2021 - NEW Nearpod Original Videos February 12, 2021 - Updated Post-Session Reports for Interactive Video February 12, 2021 - Math formula editor
We've added two new lessons to our SEL Premium Collection on helping others. Check out the and versions to help students identify and share ways they can identify and help others in need.
February 12, 2021 - Toggle off left-swipe transition between slides January 29, 2021 - Video & Activity Library
We're expanding our library of Nearpod Original Videos (check them all out here!). We've recently added lessons on lots of topics, including:
Available to teachers with an individual Silver, Gold, or Platinum account or a Premium Plus school or district account. January 29, 2021 - Live Teacher Annotations
We're incorporating Video Multiple Choice Question and Open-Ended Question reports into the reports, rather than having them live on a class board.
Available to teachers with a Premium Plus school or district account. January 29, 2021 - Live Teacher Whiteboard
Teachers can now add more complex math formulae to the following features: Open-Ended Question, Quiz, and Poll. Insert stacked fractions, matrices, and more!
January 12, 2021 - iOS app update
We've received a lot of teacher feedback asking to have an option to remove the swiping slide transitions. Now, teachers can turn this off in their Lesson Details!
December 27, 2020 - Create questions with rich-text
Download pre-made Matching Pairs, Draw It, and Time to Climb Activities and Interactive Videos to use on their own, or embed them directly into your lesson to create Nearpods even faster! Learn how here.

Draw, write, or highlight on any content slide (one you've created within Nearpod, or brought in from PPT or Google Slides), and students will see your annotation in real-time on their device. Learn how here.

Pull up a blank whiteboard on your teacher view. You can write and draw, and students will see on their device in real-time. Learn how here.
November 13, 2020 - New ELA & Math skill practice lessons
It's time to update your iOS app! We're constantly improving how Nearpod works on apple devices, so make sure you and your students are up-to-date!
November 13, 2020 - We've added 40+ Interactive versions of videos from the Smithsonian archives to our Video Library. See them all here! November 13, 2020 - New Nearpod Original Videos November 2, 2020 - New lesson partnership with Calm Smithsonian videos added to the Nearpod Video Library
Teachers can now use text bolding, color, and more when creating Polls and Open-Ended Questions in Nearpod to get even more out of their formative assessments. We'll be adding this to the other question types too!
November 2, 2020 - Multiple correct answers on video Multiple Choice Questions
November 27, 2020 - A new way to provide feedback!
November 2, 2020 - iOS App Update
Nearpod has started using a platform to hear from educators like you for how we can be even better. If you or your teachers have feedback, head to nearpod.com/feedback to share your ideas.

Check out over 250 lessons for ELA and Math skill-based lessons, perfect for review or extra practice opportunities.
November 2, 2020 - Update to our reference media audio recorder
We're expanding our library of Nearpod Original Videos. This week, we've added lessons on:

Nearpod brings Calm into the classroom with 9 lessons that include guided meditations to help boost confidence, reduce stress and anxiety, and teach students the basics of mindfulness meditation for a happier, healthier life.
November 2, 2020 - New lesson partnership: Elinor Wonders Why with PBS Kids
These lessons are a part of our SEL collection, but we're making unlocked versions of them available to ALL teachers to support positive, empowering classroom environments.
November 2, 2020 - Interactive Smithsonian videos
While adding Multiple-Choice Questions within a video, you can now select multiple correct answers. Simply choose all of your correct answers while creating the question.
October 19, 2020 - Trimming for Interactive Video October 19th, 2020 - Spanish Digital Citizenship Lessons October 19th, 2020 - Mass enable Student Name Validation October 19th, 2020 - New Nearpod Original video: What Is Irony?
Update your app today! With the newest version of the iOS app:
October 7th, 2020 - Election lesson collection

students will be able to use Immersive Reader in the iOS app if their teacher has this feature enabled

teachers will be able to launch and facilitate Interactive Video from within the app

October 7th, 2020 - New Nearpod Original Videos
Now, when you record audio for reference media, the audio recorder will not cover the rest of the activity. This will allow you to see the text you've entered while recording.
October 7th, 2020 - Updates to Interactive Video
We're starting with Open-Ended Question, and will be rolling this update out to additional activities!

These Pre-K/K lessons promote an inquiry-based science approach to nature, getting students to ask questions like "What can I observe?" and "What do I think about the world?" Check out the lessons .
October 7th, 2020 - Updates to creating a lesson
Interactive Videos featuring a collection of science and social studies videos for elementary, middle, and high school from the Smithsonian's collection.
October 7th, 2020 - Halloween themed Time to Climb
Irony is often misunderstood. In this investigative video, students learn what irony is and what it is not. They follow a character as she seeks to understand irony and its different types, and they explain irony in their own words. Check it out here.
October 7th, 2020 - Codes now contain numbers!
This set of lessons includes lessons from Vote by Design, iCivics, Teaching Tolerance, and more to help you discuss the election with your students.
September 24th, 2020 - Perspective Analysis lessons
We've released two new Nearpod Originals: engaging, relevant, and standards-aligned videos with interactive questions built-in. Check them out:

We're continuing to add even more features to Interactive Video. Here's what we've recently added:

Students can slow down a video while watching. Just use the speed controls within the video player

If teachers add a video from YouTube that has manually uploaded captions, these captions will be available within Nearpod, and students can adjust the language

We've done some Fall Cleaning in My Library to make it more clear when you're trying to create a new lesson or folder! Use the Create menu at the top (or above your lessons) to create a new lesson or video, and click "+Folder" if you're trying to get organized.
September 24th, 2020 - New iCivics Lessons September 10th, 2020 - Hair to the Queen lesson
Teachers can now choose this spooky setting for their quiz games. The other themes are still available, for those who want to keep it classic. Check out this blog post for even more Halloween goodies!
September 7th, 2020 - Mute sound for Time to Climb
In order to keep up with all of the Nearpod lessons teachers are launching, we're adding the numbers 2-9 to our Nearpod codes. Existing codes won't be impacted.
September 7th, 2020 - Updates to Interactive Video
There are two lesson types:

Windows & Mirrors invites students to reflect on the ways a piece of media does and does not reflect their own experience using a Collaborate Board.

The Box invites students to take a step back from a piece of media and consider which perspectives are being emphasized, only mentioned or left out completely using a Draw It.

September 7th, 2020 - New Draw It colors
September 24th, 2020 - Updates to Interactive Video
We've made a ton of updates this week to our Interactive Video feature, including:
August 24th, 2020 - Add Interactive Videos to your Google Slides

YouTube Closed Captioning: When teachers create an Interactive Video with a video from YouTube, if closed captions are available for that video, they will be available for teachers and students in all three teaching modes. Note that this only applies to YouTube videos that already have closed captions built-in.

Immersive Reader: Nearpod's Immersive Reader integration now works on questions within Interactive Videos. Please note that this is available on browser only (exciting updates about that coming soon!)

Convert a stand-alone video into a slides lesson: While creating an Interactive Video, if a teacher decides that they want that video to be part of a slides lesson, they can convert that video into a slides lesson within the video editor. Note that last week we also released the ability for teachers to add videos from their Library into a slides lesson.

Auto submitting student responses: if a student navigates away from the video using the blue back/right arrows before clicking submit, their answer will be automatically recorded. This is applicable to videos within larger Nearpod lessons.

August 24th, 2020 - Student name validation with Google and Microsoft SSO
These two lessons for K-5 teach about cancer in a compassionate and supportive way, through a short story that features diverse characters. One of the lessons provides read-aloud support where parts of the story are narrated by a child. Download here.
August 3rd, 2020 - Make any video interactive
Students know when they hear the Time to Climb theme song, class is about to get even more fun, but sometimes it's better to play with the music off. Now, you can turn the sound off on Time to Climb for all students before starting the game!
August 3rd, 2020 - Nearpod Original videos
We're continuing to add even more features to Interactive Video. Here's what we've added today:
July 7th, 2020 - Zoom Integration

Add videos from their library (ones they've downloaded or created) to a Nearpod lesson

Allow students to edit and resubmit their answers in Live Participation mode

June 1st, 2020 - Immersive Reader beta Now on Google Slides Add-On May 29th, 2020 - New K-5 Spanish Lessons
We've expanded our Draw It colors to give students even more opportunity to express creativity, especially since we've seen so many teachers are using Draw It for getting to know you activities at the start of the year.
May 29th, 2020 - Blank Graph in Desmos Tool*
You can now embed a video with questions within your lesson through our Google Slides add-on! Simply add a video the same way you'd add any other media or interactive using the add-on.
May 15th, 2020 - Requiring Student Response Submissions May 15th, 2020 - Fill in the Blanks in the Teacher View and Reports!
Teachers can now validate student names with their Google and Microsoft accounts. When this setting is enabled, students will be required to enter their Google or Microsoft credentials to join the lesson or video, and the name associated with that account will be the name they use to join Nearpod.
April 30th, 2020 - New Time to Climb Character!
Now, you can take any video and make it interactive with Nearpod! Get started with a YouTube video, or one you upload and add in multiple-choice and open-ended questions, or search our library of standards-aligned videos, including Nearpod Original videos and partners like CrashCourse, LearnZillion, and more. Learn how.
April 20th, 2020 - Microsoft Teams Integration Now Supports Live Lessons! April 17th, 2020 - Teacher View in Student-Paced Mode
We're launching a library of Nearpod Original videos, culturally relevant, engaging, and standards-aligned videos that make rigorous topics relatable for students.

With our new Zoom integration, you can launch a Zoom meeting from within Nearpod in just a few clicks. Then, your students join both the Nearpod and the Zoom with one code.
We've made sure it's extra secure for you and your students by automatically enabling waiting room and password protection so you can control who is in the meeting.
Please note, you'll need a Zoom account to use this new feature!
March 26th, 2020 - Time to Climb in Student-Paced Mode
We've added 200+ lessons for K-5 Spanish! These lessons are great for dual language setting and are conversation-based for authentic practice while teaching vocabulary in context and using images. As with all of our lessons, they're built on evidence-based techniques! Check out the and lessons today!
March 26th, 2020 -Moderate Student-Paced Collaborate Boards
We've added a blank graph to our Desmos tool to make it even easier and flexible for teachers to share Desmos with their students. With Nearpod, teachers can easily embed a Desmos graph into their lesson, for seamless lesson delivery!
*Available for educators with School or District Nearpod accounts
March 26th, 2020 - Immersive Reader Beta now on Matching Pairs
We've added Fill in the Blank scores to your Teacher View and post-session reports! Now, you can see how many correct responses students scored on a Fill-in-the-Blank assessment, for even deeper insights into student understanding.
March 19th, 2020 - Student Audio Submissions for Open-Ended Questions
We've added a new face to the Time to Climb crew. Launch a gamified quiz to introduce your students today!
March 19th, 2020 - Nearpod App now available on Xbox
Our Microsoft Teams integration now supports both Live and Student-Paced lessons. With this integration, you can easily share lessons with your students, and they can join your Nearpod directly within Teams, without needing a code. Check out this video to learn more!
March 18th, 2020 - Relevant Lessons about COVID-19, stress-management, hand washing, and more
Since teachers are using Student-Paced lessons more than ever to support distance learning, we've added a Teacher View for Student-Paced mode. Now you can:

👀easily monitor and analyze student progress the same way you do during a live lesson

✅quickly determine which students have joined the student-paced lesson

📊get real-time insights into student understanding, even in Student-Paced mode

📋moderate Collaborate! boards and manage student joins in your lesson

To ensure you can use this favorite quiz game more flexibly, we've released Time to Climb in Student-Paced mode! Now, you can assign a Time to Climb quiz as part of a Student-Paced lesson, and your class can work on it on their own time. Try it with one of our pre-made quizzes, or create your own. Learn more here.
March 17th, 2020 - FlipGrid as a Nearpod Activity
Teachers now have the ability to delete posts from Student-Paced collaborate boards, by viewing the board in their reports. Learn how here.
March 15th, 2020 - Quick Launch Activities
We've added our beta integration with Microsoft Immersive Reader to the Matching Pairs activity! Now, your students can have text read aloud, translated, and more on directions and cards for matching pairs. Learn more about Nearpod and Immersive Reader here.
March 5, 2020 - WORLD101 lessons
Now, you can allow students to respond to an Open-Ended Question with audio, text, or both! Teachers can play back student audio submissions from the teacher dashboard, or later in the post-session reports. Learn more by watching this video. Please note that this feature works on the web only.
February 21st, 2020 - Reference Images for Time to Climb February 20th, 2020 - Live View of Draw It Responses February 10th, 2020 - Valentine's Day Time to Climb Theme February 1, 2020 - New lessons for Black History Month
The Nearpod Microsoft app can now be accessed from an Xbox! As a reminder, this app is for students only.
January 10th, 2020 - Immersive Reader Beta Updates
We're continuing to add relevant lessons that teachers can use to support students and keep them aware of what's happening with COVID-19. Check them out here.
December 4th, 2019 - Time to Climb Winter Theme
Recent lessons include:
November 18th, 2019 - Update to folder deletion in My Library!

Current events lessons on COVID-19

Mini-lessons featuring Flocabulary videos: Wash Your Hands & Bacteria and Viruses

A K-5 lesson in Spanish on germs & staying healthy

A 6-12 current events lesson in Spanish on the pandemic

November 15th, 2019 - Limit Time to Climb Questions to 5 or 10 Seconds!
Teachers can easily add their Flipgrid links into Nearpod, and view/moderate the Flipgrid teacher dashboard within the Nearpod teacher view, while students are responding in a Nearpod lesson. You can check out a quick video tutorial here. Please note that this feature works on the web only.
November 1st, 2019 - We've removed our 2-slide restriction!
Teachers can now quickly create individual activities within Nearpod, and launch them to their students in seconds with Quick Launch activities. You can "quick launch" Draw It, Open-Ended Question, Collaborate! and a NEW Nearpod timer!
October 16th, 2019 - Nearpod Integrates with Microsoft's Immersive Reader
Help students understand key global era issues with lessons in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations. Check them out here.
September 24th, 2019 - Resize the background image of your Draw It activity!
Teachers now have the ability to add reference images for questions in their Time to Climb quizzes. This means that images can be included for Time to Climb as questions and/or answers. Students can expand the image to look more closely.
September 20th, 2019 - Easily share lessons with this new improvement!
Now, when teachers and students are both using Nearpod in a web browser, they can view student responses as they work!
September 16th, 2019 - Classlink SSO
This Valentine's Day, bring a little bit of extra love to your classroom with our limited-edition Time to Climb theme. Available through 2/14!

Five new Flocabulary Topic Sparks lessons released for Black History Month! Each lesson includes a Flocabulary video and best-loved Nearpod features. Check them out here.
September 11th, 2019 - Time to Climb Now Supports Images as Answers
Our Beta release of Microsoft's Immersive Reader is now enabled for three new features: Draw It!, Quiz, and Poll, in addition to Open-Ended Questions and slides created within Nearpod.
July 31st, 2019 - Nearpod Add-on for Google Slides July 31st, 2019 - App Navigation and Lesson Library Updates July 31st, 2019 - Timer for Draw It
For the month of December, let it snow in your classroom with the Time to Climb winter theme. Teachers can select this new theme upon the launch of a Time to Climb activity.
July 30th, 2019 - Admins of our School and District Nearpod accounts can selectively grant user permissions to specific features without giving full admin access. This allows granular access control across a full list of permissions to be assigned for individual users within a School or District account. July 22nd, 2019 - Nearpod iOS App Version 11.9 is Available! User Permissions July 22nd, 2019 - Share to Microsoft Teams!
By popular request, we've updated the behavior when you delete folders in My Library! Going forward, when you delete a folder, all contents of the folder will also be deleted, similarly to the behavior you're used to in the file management platforms you work with, such as Google Drive.
June 24th, 2019 - Up the engagement with Time to Climb!
We have updated the timer functionality within Time to Climb. With this update, you can now limit your students to 5 or 10 seconds per question.

In an effort to make the lesson creation process easier, we're removing the requirement that Nearpod lessons need to be 2 slides. This means that teachers can now create 1-slide Nearpods.
April 24th, 2019 - Check out our Google Chrome Extension for Google Classroom!
Nearpod has expanded students' ability to take ownership of learning by integrating with Microsoft's Immersive Reader. This early integration with Immersive Reader, launching in beta, provides interactive tools to support students' reading skills and comprehension, such as enhanced dictation and syllabification. This feature is currently available within Nearpod "slides" and Open Ended Question activities. To enable this feature, go to your advanced settings.
Check out our FAQ's here. April 22nd, 2019 - iOS App Update!
Teachers can now rotate and resize the images that they upload to the Draw It activity. This will make it easier to find the perfect background for your students to annotate.
April 18th, 2019 - Keep your Nearpod library organized with these new features!
When applicable, users can easily copy editable links for lessons directly from the Link tab in the Share Lesson modal!
April 5th, 2019 - Retail Purchase Changes:
We now have a Classlink SSO application within Classlink's Launchpad. Users can now add our Nearpod SSO button within Classlink to sign in with just one click! Below you will find some helpful documentation.
April 5th, 2019 - Slide Editor - Audio Recorder Design Improvement:
Install Our Application: https://support.classlink.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005631828-Adding-Additional-Apps
March 25th, 2019 - Update your iOS app!
Nearpod's newest gamified activity just got better! You can now add images as answer options within Time to Climb. Go to Nearpod to check it out!
March 18th, 2019 - Updates for School and District Library!
You can now embed the magic of Nearpod directly into Google Slides. This new integration makes it easier than ever to create, edit and collaborate with peers. Leverage the flexibility of the Google Slides editor with your favorite Nearpod features and activities.

We've made some changes to the Nearpod experience to make YOU more productive on Nearpod. You'll experience a navigation side-bar that makes it easier to find all of your favorites in Nearpod, an improved search experience (including better filters), and more! Go to Nearpod to check it out!
March 12th, 2019 - New PhET Simulations!
You can now experience the timer feature on a Nearpod favorite... Draw It. The timer feature helps with time management, creates a sense of urgency to complete the activity, and creates friendly competition to beat the clock.
February 25th, 2019 - Integration with Clever SSO!
Check it out!
January 25th, 2019 - Timer for Poll, Quiz, and Open-ended Question
Update your Nearpod iOS app to our latest version, 11.9. This version of the app includes minor improvements to the Nearpod experience.
January 25th, 2019 - Improved Student Experience for Poll, Quiz, and Open-ended Question
You can now share Nearpod Live and Student-paced lessons to Microsoft Teams. This button will allow teachers to share a session directly to their Microsoft Team in two ways, either as an announcement or as an assignment. Students who see the post within Microsoft Teams can click the link and join the session in a new tab without the need to enter a Join CODE.
January 25th, 2019 - Desmos Interactive Graphic Calculator
Time to Climb is Nearpod's NEW "game-like" activity filled with fun assessment challenges on subject-specific topics. Peak engagement by using Time to Climb in a lesson or as a stand-alone activity. Perfect for bell ringers, reviews, exit tickets, and more! Ignite the fun in learning with Time to Climb.
December 5th, 2018 - Update on Silver User Class Sizes!

June 24th, 2019 - Nearpod has a new and improved search engine!
When searching within the Nearpod Lesson Library, you'll experience improved search results and faster searches so you can get what you need in lightning speed. If you have a Nearpod School or District account with access to supplemental curriculum lessons, results from those packages will appear in your searches as well.
November 9th, 2018 - Product Update for Admins!
With this brand new integration, teachers will have the ability to access their Nearpod Library and assign Live and Student-Paced lessons directly to Google Classroom. This extension is free, easy-to-use, and available to users of any subscription type.
November 9th, 2018 - Android Student App Update!
We have released our latest version of our iOS app. This version of the app includes an updated look and feel of our Poll, Quiz, and Open-ended Question activities for students.
October 30th, 2018 - Updates for Admins!
Effortlessly organize your library with our new "drag & drop" functionality and the availability of subfolders. Drag and drop, lessons into folders, folders into folders, and more!
October 10th, 2018 - iOS 11.5
Experience the new address collection form for retail purchases in the US!
September 9th, 2018 - Delete Lessons
You asked we listened! You can now view the entire screen when recording audio within the slide editor.
August 24th, 2018 - CODEs Expiration, Classlink Integration, Platinum License Updates
We have recently released a new version of our iOS app. This is version 11.7.2 and includes minor bug fixes and improvements.

Managing the School and District Libraries just got a lot easier! We have introduced Drag&Drop functionality on the admin side of both the School and District libraries. Now admins can drag and drop lessons into folders, drag and drop folders into other folders, and many more combinations!

Take a look at this blog for ideas on how to organize your School and District Library!
August 1st, 2018 - Matching Pairs with Timer
We've added 26 additional HTML5 PhET simulations for teachers to enhance their Nearpod lessons. Now, teachers can incorporate simulations, like quadratic equations, masses and springs, and fractions.

Nearpod now integrates with Clever SSO! Teachers can now find our app in the official Clever library, and securely sign-in to Nearpod through Clever. If a teacher new to Nearpod uses this button, they will automatically have an account created for them. If they already have a Nearpod account, we match their email and automatically sign them in!
July 30th, 2018 - Improvements to My Library and Nearpod Lesson Library
Set the pace and up the engagement in our most loved activities! You can now specify a certain amount of time for your students to complete a poll, quiz, and open-ended question activity.
June 27th, 2018 - Integration with Blackboard Learn
We have updated the student experience for poll, quiz, and open-ended question to be more delightful for students.
June 11th, 2018 - iOS Update
Reach more students with a meaningful math rool for immersive experiences in upper-level math classrooms. Introducing our new Desmos integration! With Desmos, students will:

We know that many class sizes, particularly in states like Nevada, California, Oregon and Washington, teach more than 30 students in their classrooms. In an effort to support all classrooms, we have increased the class size for Silver users from 30 students to 40!

We have reworked the *Impersonate* feature of our platform. Our previous iteration of the feature was clunky to use and required a logout/login to get back to where you left off. We know there is room for improvement on many of our old, backend features, and we are always looking for ways to reduce frictions and save admins time. Starting today, you should notice significant flow improvements to the *Impersonate* feature. Try it out for yourself!
May 24th, 2018 - Managing Multiple School Libraries
We are excited to announce that we have an updated version of the *Android App* in the Google Play store. This app is for students and includes access to matching pairs, as well as overall functionality improvements. If you are an Android user, go check it out!

We have made some improvements to the Nearpod Admin Usage Statistics and Graphs! Now, School/District Admins will see a few new and improved aspects of the "View Usage" section of the Nearpod Admin area of the platform.

We have recently released a new version of our iOS app! This new release includes the premium feature of updating Student-paced CODEs and minor improvements. Visit the app store to update your app.
May 23rd, 2018 - iOS Update
We are enabling the Delete option for paid lessons from school or district users' My Library. Users who add paid (but effectively free because of their content package) lessons to My Library, either from the store or from their School or District Library, will be able to delete unwanted lessons.

CODEs Expiration
Instructors can now adjust the length of student-paced CODEs for up to 365 days.

Through this integration, Nearpod will import and manage your teacher rosters. Any changes to enrollments are synchronously applied behind the scenes for a seamless experience throughout the school year.

Users wanting to purchase Platinum will be able to do so through credit cards online (just like Gold).

This new activity allows teachers to select corresponding text and images for students to match. The timer feature allows the teacher to specify a time limit for the activity to be completed.
May 10th, 2018 - Integration with itsLearning
* This feature is available to gold, platinum, school and district users.

New look & feel for My Library: we have been making several changes to the My Library section to look even better!

New organization for the My Lessons section, for the content that teachers create and save.

Tips & Tricks section: we have added lots of self-training guides for new and existing Nearpod users.

New look & feel for Nearpod Library search bar: the search bar is now left-aligned and longer, and the search filters have moved to the right.

Auto-suggestions in Nearpod Library search: this is the reason why the search bar is growing longer! As the teacher types in the search bar, we'll feed suggested searches.

Updated Nearpod Library thumbnails: we have redesigned the lesson thumbnails so that they expand to display relevant information.

Better visibility for Standards when searching by standards in the Nearpod Library: when teachers search by standards, they'll see a Standards tab next to Related Content in the lesson preview pane, which will make it easier to decide whether this lesson fits the class' needs.

Nearpod now integrates with Blackboard Learn! Check out the guide to installing and using this new integration.

Integration with Apple Schoolwork

Nearpod is first integrating support for Apple Schoolwork's "integrated handouts." With integrated handouts, teachers will be able to send Nearpod student-paced lessons to each student. While students are completing the Nearpod handout, teachers will receive real-time feedback on each student's progress within the lesson, including assessment results.

Learn more about how Nearpod integrates with Apple Schoolwork here.
January 22nd, 2018 - New Version of Slide Editor
District Admins now have the ability to manage multiple school libraries. This will provide District Admins with more visibility into what is being shared across schools and offer additional means of organization.
January 17th, 2018 - Easier, Faster Quiz Creation
Here is a quick video that demonstrates the new functionality:
November 22nd, 2017 - Collaborate! in the Student-Paced mode November 16th, 2017 - Share your next Nearpod lesson through Remind
Learn more about this update here.
November 15th, 2017 - BBC Videos for any Nearpod lesson

Search by State and National Standards available.
November 13th, 2017 - Student Mode on the Teacher Dashboard

Redesign of the Student Notes feature

Before taking notes, students are now prompted to select the location in which they'd like to save their notes. Students can now save to Microsoft OneDrive, in addition to Google Drive and Email.
October 19th, 2017 - Flip images for Draw it

Redesign of the Slideshow feature: we have redesigned this existing feature to enhance the user's experience.

Updates to the Draw it Feature
October 17th, 2017 - Modify Student Submissions
Students can now rotate and flip images in the Draw-it activity.
September 28th, 2017 - Standalone version of Collaborate!
Nearpod now integrates with itsLearning! This first version offers a full-site navigation of Nearpod within the itsLearning platform. We are exploring additional means of integration - more on this coming soon!
September 14th, 2017 - New iOS app
You can learn more about the current integration on our LMS landing page.
September 11th, 2017 - PhET Sims on Nearpod

Teachers view more closely matches student view now and instructions can be up to 1,000 characters, images can be rotated.
August 7th, 2017 - New Nearpod 10 for iOS

Record audio directly onto Reference Media in Quiz. Coming soon also to Draw It and Poll.

Teachers can now choose Fine Arts as the Subject for their lessons when creating one.

A new version of our iOS app is available for download. In this version, School and District users can now access School and District Library and Content Packages, such as Nearpod EL, Ready to Run PD, and Digital Citizenship, on an iPad.

Administrators are now able to more easily organize lessons in the libraries. Note that teachers who are not admins won't be able to create and organize lessons into these subfolders.

Teachers are now able to search the Nearpod Store for lessons that meet 5 state standards in addition to 3 national standards.

The state standards are Florida, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

The national standards are CCSS, NGSS, and NCSS.

The remaining 45 states will be ready for the back-to-school season in August.

Teachers are able to search the Nearpod Store for lessons that meet 5 state standards in addition to 3 national standards.

The state standards are Florida, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

The national standards are CCSS, NGSS, and NCSS.

The remaining 45 states will be ready to go by back to school in August.

We just added 20 NEW PhET simulations for you to use in your next lesson, and therefore provide your students with hands-on discovery in Science!

The full "Convert to Draw It" feature is now available for Gold, School and District users.

We listen to you, teachers! We've added seven new themes with different background colors and fonts, and also a new slide layout option for you to customize the design of your presentations.

Up to 1.000 character questions

500 character answers

15 answer choices

Better previews of reference media

Easier reordering of questions and answers

More than 2.5 million teachers and 70% of U.S. public schools use Remind to communicate with students and parents. We've added a Remind button for teachers to share their lessons with their class in a faster and more effective way.
July 28th, 2017 - Showing Quiz Results During Student-paced Lessons on iOS devices

The new BBC Video Tool is now available on Nearpod. Choose from over 50 high-resolution videos to use in your next lesson. Ready-to-teach lessons that feature this striking media are also available in the Nearpod store.
July 5th, 2017 - Collaborate! Improvements

Student Mode allows the teacher to toggle between the traditional Teacher View they are used to and the Student View. This way you're able to demonstrate how to use a Draw It or play a video to your class without risking showing a quiz dashboard accidentally.
July 5th, 2017 - Reference Media
To learn more about this feature you can read more about it here.
June 20th, 2017 - Canvas Student name and Gradebook integration

Students will now be able to flip images inserted into a Draw it either horizontally or vertically or rotate them anywhere from 1-360 degrees. This gives students greater flexibility to be creative in their responses. This feature is currently available on the Web-based Nearpod app and will be available in iOS by the end of this year.
June 5th, 2017 - My account settings

With this new feature, students will be able to edit answers that they have previously submitted during a Live Lesson and resubmit them (for Quizzes, Polls, OEQ, and Draw It activities). Only the most recently submitted answer is shown to the teacher. This feature is automatically on for students during Live Lessons. It can be toggled off in the Advanced tab within Account Settings. Currently, this feature is available only on computers.

We have launched a standalone version of Collaborate. You can create a board independent of a Nearpod presentation from this site: https://collaborate.nearpod.com/new or by clicking "Try it now" on the Collaborate web page https://nearpod.com/collaborate.

A new version of our iOS app is available for download. In this version we've made some new improvements and bug fixes in preparation to Apple's new iOS operating system (iOS 11).
June 5th, 2017 - Quiz results during Student-paced lessons

We have added PhET Simulations to Nearpod! PhET Sims are free interactive math and science simulations that are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery. PhET Sims can be added from the "Add Content" section of the Content Creation Tool.
June 5th, 2017 - Limit Polls to one response

This update features several improvements designed to enhance the teaching experience from your iPhone or iPad.

Reference Media allows teachers to add a video, audio, website, PDF or image to their interactive activities such as Draw Its for more engaging and in-depth assessments. Reference Media is available for Open-Ended Questions, Polls, Quizzes, and Draw It activities.

Showing Quiz Results During Student-paced Lessons:Students can now see results from their Student-paced sessions in real-time, on their own. By enabling this feature, students can quickly and easily determine their level of knowledge and self-assess before reviewing with their teacher.

Teachers can enable this feature from their Account Advanced Settings.
May 24th, 2017 - iOS 9.8.5

Now Teachers can Launch Collaborate! from their iPhone and iPad. Here's what it looks like on the new iPhone app.
May 23th, 2017 - School Library (beta)

Folders can now easily be shared from My Library (iPad only).

Auto-correct is now enabled from student view.

You can download the latest version of the Nearpod app here.

Students can now see results from their Student-paced sessions in real-time, on their own. By enabling this feature, students can quickly and easily determine their level of knowledge and self-assess before reviewing with their teacher.

Teachers can enable this feature from their Account Advanced Settings.

With this update, teachers are now given the option to preview and approve or reject student comments when launching a Collaborate! slide in a live lesson. The purpose is to prevent inappropriate or off topics comments from populating the board, keeping students focused on the topic of the lesson. Watch this video to learn how to use this new feature:
May 20th, 2017 - New Student Notes format for teachers with School or District Editions

Now videos, audio files, PDFs & websites can be added as reference media to assessment activities! With this feature teachers can ask students more in depth and richer questions. Watch this video to learn how to use this new feature:

Reference Media is available for Open Ended Questions, Polls, Quizzes, and Draw It activities.
April 24th, 2017 - Convert to Draw It

The Canvas Gradebook integration allows teachers to easily access and grade students' Nearpod post-session reports - all within Canvas. Watch this video to learn how to use this new feature:
April 10th, 2017 - Control where videos are played and resize slide background images

We've given a fresh look to the account settings page within Nearpod!

Navigate your profile and account settings easily and efficiently with the new layout.
March 27th, 2017 - Nearpod 9.6 for iOS now available

Quickly access advanced features like Student Notes and Student-paced quiz results.
March 24th, 2017 - Schoology Integration

Students can now validate their understanding of a lesson by receiving feedback in real-time.

See how Student-paced results works below or read more about it in this blog post.

Teachers can now add Polls to their Nearpod lessons that accept only 1 student response.

To activate this feature, simply turn off the 'multiple options' setting when adding a Poll to your lesson.

March 24th, 2017 - Draw It background image visible on the teacher dashboard March 24th, 2017 - Upload PDF files

You may also revisit previously created lessons to enable this new feature for Polls!

This is a new release of our iOS app that includes technical improvements and bug fixes.
March 1st, 2017 - Add .gifs and backgrounds to your slides

The beta version of the new School Library is now available for teachers with School or District accounts! Scroll down to learn about all of its great features.

Teachers can now add lessons to their School Library directly from their Nearpod library.
March 1st, 2017 - M ath s February 6th 2017 - You can now share folders ymbols in slide editor

Admins are able to find lessons quicker and easier with improved search.

The School Library has folders (with colors!) to organize lessons.
January 31st 2017 - Displaying CODE in student devices

No more need to access the store in order to reach School Library material!
January 30th 2017 - Collaborate!

Now when a students submit their notes, teachers receive a new editable layout (.docx) with references to the slides of the lesson as well as the associated student notes. View an example here!

This new feature allows students to review their notes and answers to activities so they can rewatch videos and revisit 3D Objects.

Convert to Draw It allows teachers to transform any of their slides into interactive Draw It activities in one click! With these converted slides, students are able to engage with the content they are learning by highlighting, drawing, and annotating.

Teachers are now able to choose whether to play Youtube or Vimeo videos embedded in their lessons on all student devices or only their own.

Resize your slide's background images with ease using the Slide Editor tool!

Learn more about our latest update to the Nearpod iOS update here.
January 26th 2017 - Microsoft Windows App

If you love using Schoology, you can now access the entire Nearpod site within the Schoology platform. Create lessons, access reports, browse lessons, and all your favorite features.
January 12th 2017 - Nearpod iOS 9.5 - iPad and iPhone apps

You can now also add Nearpod course materials in Schoology without requiring your students to use a code.

From the teacher dashboard you can now see the background image used in your students' submissions.

If a PDF file is dragged or dropped into the Content tool, you are now able to add it as a document or individual slides.

If you're a Silver user, upgrade to Gold to access this feature.

Make your slides even more engaging when you add .gifs to them!

In this latest update, you can now add backgrounds to your slides.

Math symbols are now accessible when creating activities such as Quizzes, Polls, Open-ended Questions, or a Draw It! Choose from various categories to pick the right symbol for your lesson.
January 16th 2017 - Android app

With this new feature, teachers are now able to share an entire folder with lessons with a colleague or friends.

If the folder contains lessons that are purchased or downloaded from the store they will not be included in the shared folder.

New to Nearpod? Try it for free here!

We are now showing the session CODE on the Student devices.

Collaborate!: an interactive brainstorming tool for teachers and students to share text and images in real time. While on a collaborative activity, students and teachers submit posts with text and images, they are able to see each other's responses and like other's posts in real time. The teacher can organize the discussion board and then share it via email, social media or link. Collaborate provides teachers with a new way to easily engage students and foster meaningful discussion in the classroom.

Important notes:

~ Teachers can use Collaborate! to teach from a browser or an iPad. At this point teachers cannot use the iPhone Teacher App with Collaborate!

~ In order to use Collaborate! from an iOS device, users must upgrade to Nearpod iOS 9.5 which is currently available in the App Store.

~ For now, the feature is free to be used by all teachers, no matter the type of account they have.

~ Collaborate! only works on Live lessons. Because of the lack of content moderation, it is not available for Student-paced sessions.

A new version of our Windows App is now available at the Microsoft Store. In terms of features, this version is a full catch up with the Web App. Here is the access to this app.
November 30th 2016 - Multiple Active Sessions

New and improved Content Search for iPhone teacher app
November 24th 2016 - Renaming PIN to CODE

Ask a question to the class. Works exactly as the "Open Ended Question" feature. Records answers in dashboard and post session reports. Only for iPhone teacher app.
November 20th 2016 - Teacher Dashboard Redesign

Updated Live lesson teacher dashboard. iPad only.

Teachers can pause student devices for slides containing audio and video. This is a free feature available for iPad and iPhone teacher app.

Multiple Active Codes is a paid feature and works for both iPad and iPhone teacher app .

Support for Folders in My Library. iPhone teacher app .

Students can now access images stored on their One Drive accounts from the Draw It. iPad and iPhone teacher app .
October 31st 2016 - New Admin vertical menu and Manage district access

New version of the Android app is available in the Google Play Store. It is a student only app, what means that teachers will have to access via the web app if wanting to teach a lesson from an Android device.
October 31st 2016 - Content Tool Upload files
December 30th 2016 - Teachers can pause student devices for slides containing audio and video
October 15th 2016 - Nearpod 3D
~ Video Slides - both uploaded & Youtube videos
September 5th 2016 - Sway August 15th 2016 - One Drive
~ Audio Slides
August 5th 2016 - Admin Charts
~ Slide Editor Slides with any combination of audio and video

December 20th 2016 - Nearpod <> Canvas integration improvements

Live Lesson as a Canvas Module (until now, only Student-paced was possible)

Live Lesson and Student-paced as a Canvas Assignment

Both Live Lesson and Student-paced could be embed in a Canvas page

Now teachers have ability to call Nearpod within Canvas

Learn more about the Nearpod <> Canvas integration here!

December 20th 2016 - Draw It Collage
July 30th 2016 - iOS 9

Teachers can share the magic with parents and colleagues. The Draw It collage displays student work in an appealing way that can be shared easily.

Here is how it works. Teacher teaches a live lesson that at least has a Draw It activity. This new functionality will randomly select 5 Draw It images submissions, assemble them in a graphic template and email the final collage to the teacher.

July 12th 2016 - Nearpodize

Allows teachers to maintain several active sessions at once.

Available only for Gold, School and District users.

Effective now, the unique identifier of a session is called CODE and no longer PIN.

The Scrubber has been divided into 3 parts:

~ The Student Roster has been moved from the top-bar and now occupies the left side of the scrubber.

~ The middle part of the scrubber contains the slide navigator.

~ The right portion of the scrubber lets you show or hide student names.

The button that launches On-The-Fly features has been moved to the top right toolbar.

The new side menu provides much more flexibility in terms of navigating the different components of the Admin/Support menus.

In addition, the "Manage School/District" functionality can now be accessed from the Nearpod main menu.

Until now, it was only possible to drag and drop PPTs or PDFs into Nearpod. With this new functionality, teachers can now browse and navigate to their local or cloud files directly from the Content Tool.

Nearpod 3D is a new feature of the Content Tool that lets teachers insert 3D objects slides into their lessons.

We are hosting a library of almost 100 curated 3D objects separated in categories.

We are now supporting Microsoft One Drive in the same way we currently integrate with Google Drive, Dropbox and others.

One Drive will be enabled to all the features of the Content Tool that support the uploading of files. Examples: Video, Slide Editor, etc.

This new module is about showing usage stats information in graphs / charts format. It will only be available for District/School Admin users.

In this first version we will support the following 4 charts:

~ Teacher scoreboard: Ranks teachers based on their platform usage considering how many valid sessions they have launched in the selected time period.

~ Sessions launched: Amount of valid sessions in the selected time period.

~ Students joined: Amount of students joined to valid sessions in the selected time period.

~ Active teachers: Amount of teachers that launched valid sessions in the selected time period.

Full support to Folders (iPad only)

Content Search (iPad only)

Interactive preview of NPPs (iPad only)

Support for Office 365 (iPad and iPhone only)

Turn your Google presentations into Nearpod lessons in just a few steps and instantly engage your students.

The Nearpodize extension allows you to turn your existing Google presentations into Nearpod lessons in just a few steps.

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Understand student engagement and emotional wellbeing over time

Time Breakout Room sessions and save room assignments

Engage students with Multiple Choice Quizzes

Create secure and focused learning environments with chat supervision

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Summer break may be in full swing, but that doesn't mean we are taking a break from bringing you new ways to create successful learning environments! In fact, we are so excited about the latest batch of Microsoft Teams updates, we couldn't wait for fall to share them with you. Just kick back, relax, and let us show you a few of the latest updates, now available in Teams.

Let's get to it!

1. Understand student engagement and emotional wellbeing over time

Reflect-a tool that helps educators gain insight into students' social-emotional learning-now offers goals and intentions questions for the next school year, quarter, trimester, or semester. Educators can also see how students respond over time through Education Insights with added colors and filter options in digital activity reports.

2. Time Breakout Room sessions and save room assignments

Educators now have the option to set a timer for Breakout Room sessions which will automatically return students to the main group once time expires. You can also reassign students to rooms and save final room assignments to reuse them in the future.

3. Engage students with Multiple Choice Quizzes

Gauge lesson comprehension and keep students engaged with the new Multiple Choice Quiz option in Forms Polls built into Teams. Whether you create custom quiz questions or use our intelligent poll suggestions to save time, you'll be able to glean real-time insights as students submit responses.

4. Create secure and focused learning environments with chat supervision

The new supervised chat permission settings help educators create secure learning environments when communicating through messaging in Teams. When chat supervision is enabled, designated educators are granted permission to initiate chats with students and prevents students from starting new chats unless an educator is present.

5. Add assignments to Office 365 calendar

Stay on top of due dates and classwork by turning on calendar sync for Teams assignments. Once toggled on in Assignment Settings, the calendar feature will add an entry at the assignment due date and time in Teams and Outlook calendars for both educators and students.

Whatever your summer plans entail, you won't want to miss all the new Teams features we have in store. And if you haven't already signed up for Teams, be sure to sign up to try it for free today.

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Create more with updates to OneNote, PowerPoint, and Word

Record and embed video into OneNote
Later this summer we’ll be adding the ability to record video as well as screencast, directly from the OneNote for web app. This video can also be directly embedded onto the OneNote page. Record video will work for stand-alone OneNote in the web, as well as OneNote Class Notebooks (stand alone or in Teams).

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Timed quiz/form
Whether you are using Teams Assignments or not, now you can set a time limit on any of your surveys or quizzes. Simply go to your settings in the form design page, under the “...”. The timer begins right as your student starts the form. Once your student reaches the time limit, they can submit what they’ve completed thus far, but cannot answer any more questions in the form.

When: End of August

Text formatting
Now, you can use bold, italicize, and underline in your surveys and quizzes. You can also change font sizes, colors and use bulleting or numbering, allowing teachers and form/quiz designers to emphasize certain words in your questions, answer choices, titles, descriptions, and comments. You can format the text via the floating tool bar that appears when you highlight the text.

When: June

Shortened URL
Now, you can use a shorter URL when collecting responses to your form. A shortened link looks cleaner and can be easily typed into their web browser by students or parents, especially if they see the link in a poster or presentation.

When: Available now!

Improved sending and sharing
The top corner of your Forms design page has been updated for a clearer experience. Under the Send button, you’ll find the options to send your form via URL, QR code, and more, and define which audiences can respond to your form. Under the people icon next to the “Send” button, you can share edit access to the form with fellow educators or colleagues who are creating or evaluating the form with you.

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When it comes to education, we're always looking for the latest and greatest thing to engage our students. But what if beyond being a fad, the latest and greatest thing were actually a powerful educational tool and not just a passing trend?

Welcome to podcasts. Where podcasts are concerned, the majority of people usually fall into two camps: the ones who eagerly pop in their earbuds every time a new episode of their favorite pod is released, and those who've never made it through an episode (or who still aren't quite sure just what a podcast is).

Right now, the podcast stats show that there are over 700,000 active podcasts with more than 29 million available episodes - that's a lot of content!

In terms of your students, just 10% of monthly podcast listeners are in the 12-17 age range, so it's still a somewhat undiscovered medium you can use to capture their attention. Adding something unexpected is the perfect way to supercharge your class!

Even if you're a total newbie, getting started with podcasts in the classroom is an easy skill to add to your teaching toolbag. Whether you're using them to listen together or individually, or you're having your students record their own podcasts, there's space for podcasts in any syllabus.

Why Podcasts Are so Effective in Engaging Students

Students' attention spans are famously short, and there are more distractions competing for their attention today than ever before. How do podcasts cut through the noise?

First of all, if you're assigning a podcast for homework, your students can listen anywhere: on the school bus or driving home, walking around their neighborhood, while they're working out or just in the comfort of their own bedrooms.

This means that students will listen to podcasts longer than they'd do traditional homework because it allows them the freedom to multitask.

Then there's the imagination element. Just like with reading a good book, a podcast allows students to picture what they're listening to and create their own visual images in their minds.

Finally, podcasts come in a format that's attractive to them. By being able to pull up a podcast on their smartphones, they're engaging with a medium that they already know and use more than any other. It's going with the trend rather than fighting it!

Using Podcasts as Part of Your Curriculum

There are a million different ways to incorporate podcasts into your curriculum. For every age group, subject and language, there's a podcast, so it's just a matter of finding the one that's right for your class and what you're trying to teach.

Using podcasts in the classroom is a great way to really bring your lessons to life. Once you've found a podcast episode that aligns with your lesson, you have two options for listening:

1. Ask students to listen individually on their smartphones or tablets with their headphones, either in class or for homework.

2. Listen as a group in class.

For option number one, you can go one step further by uploading the podcast of your choice to Edpuzzle and embedding comprehension questions to keep your students engaged. You'll just need to download your podcast, run it through an online MP3>MP4 converter (a quick Google search will turn up plenty of options) and upload it into Edpuzzle.

That way you'll ensure that your students are actively listening and not spacing out!

If you decide to go with option number two, consider projecting the transcript for the podcast episode (if available) as you listen. Some great podcasts with transcripts include StoryCorps, This American Life and Serial.

In a fantastic article on podcasts in the classroom from The Atlantic, high school English teacher Michael Godsey stated:

"I asked each of my own students to write down what they'd honestly like to do for the rest of the semester: read a good book together, listen to another podcast, or listen to a podcast with the words on the screen. Sixty-two voted for the latter, while just two voted for podcasts alone, and one for reading alone."

That's some powerful proof for using transcripts with your podcasts!

Great Podcasts for Students by Age Group

Now that you've got some ideas for how to use podcasts in your class, it's time for the fun part. Here are some examples of great educational podcasts broken down by age group:
Podcasts for Elementary Students:

Tumble (science)

But Why? (various topics)

Storynory (language arts)

The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian (language arts)

Eleanor Amplified (language arts)

Podcasts for Middle School Students:

The Past and the Curious (history)

Brains On (science)

KidNuz (current events)

Youth Radio (current events)

Welcome to Night Vale (language arts)

Podcasts for High School Students:

Star Talk with Neil DeGrasse Tyson (science)

Serial (criminal justice)

Radiolab (science)

StoryCorps (language arts)

Stuff You Missed in History Class (history)

... and this is just a taste! Now all you have to do is start listening and planning your lessons. If you need any help in that department, check out all the podcast resources on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Have Students Create Their Own Podcasts

After you've introduced podcasts in the classroom and have your students hooked (and trust us, they will be!), it might be time to turn the tables and have them create their own podcasts.

Just look at the success of the student podcasts contests held by The New York Times and NPR - the quality of the content is astounding! (And make sure you check out last year's winning entry in the NPR contest, " Murderous Mary and the Rise of Erwin.")

A fantastic alternative to a research paper, a podcast will inspire your students and bring their research to life. By using some simple free software or the built-in microphones in their smartphones or laptops, your students can become podcast hosts in no time.

So, what have you got to lose? A new technology, a spike in student engagement and a break from lecturing for you... there's a lot to love about using podcasts in the classroom.

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With Co-Teaching on Nearpod, you and your co-teacher or co-facilitator can both control the pace of the lesson and get real-time insights into student responses.

Note:

This feature is available to teachers with a school or district Premium Plus license only. To learn more about our license types, click here

this feature works in Live Participation mode only

this feature currently works in the browser only, and not on the iOS app. For more information about our iOS app, click here

In this article, you'll learn:

How to add a Co-Teacher to your lesson

1. Launch your Nearpod lesson in Live Participation mode as you typically would.

2. When the code appears, you will have the option to add a Co-Teaching link. Turn this option on, then copy the link.

3. Share the link with your co-teacher. They will be prompted to join the lesson.

4. Once your co-teacher enters their name and clicks "Join Lesson," they will be added to the lesson as a co-teacher.

How to promote a lesson participant to Co-Teacher

1. After your co-teacher has joined the lesson as a student ( here's how), go to your Participants List by clicking on the person icon in the bottom left corner, and hover over your co-teacher's name, then click the "More" dropdown menu, then select "Make Co-Teacher."

2. Click "Yes" to confirm that you would like to promote this participant to Co-Teacher. Your Co-Teacher will then receive a notification on their device that they have been made a Co-Teacher.

What a Co-Teacher can and can't do

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Update: since this post was written, Nearpod has released a new Co-Teaching feature for teachers with a Premium Plus school or district license. Learn more here.
Co-teaching and Nearpod are not two things that you naturally associate with each other, however, the two mesh seamlessly. The Co-teaching Model and Nearpod share many of the same goals such as increasing student engagement, improving teacher feedback, and improving equity among students. With a little planning, you and a colleague can be co-teaching with Nearpod in no time.

Anytime you are using educational technology and/or co-teaching there are a few important things to remember:

It is important for you and your co-teaching partner to have a good rapport with each other and your students.

You should both be on the same page so planning ahead and planning together is important.

Anytime you use educational technology the tech should support the standards being taught and add something to the lesson.

Tech should always be tested in advance and you should have a backup plan in case something goes wrong the day of the lesson.

One of the strongest examples of co-teaching I have been a part of took place a few weeks ago. There are two seventh grade science teachers in my building who often combine their classes and co-teach. Typically, they use the team teaching method of co-teaching. Even when teaching students as two separate classes, they still plan together and teach their students pretty much the same lesson. Because of their similar personalities and teaching styles, they are a great example of one brain and two bodies in the classroom. These two teachers had combined their classes and were being coached by our literacy coach on using close reading strategies in their science classrooms. The literacy coach asked me to come in and observe to assist her with making the end-of-lesson quiz digital.

As we were walking into the classroom to begin the lesson, the literacy coach was explaining that the lesson had a quiz at the end and she was sure that there was an easier way to do it using technology. Our district is moving towards one-to-one so all of our 6th, 7th, & 8th-grade students have Chromebooks. One of the science teachers suggested that Nearpod would be a good way to do the quiz and that honestly, the entire lesson would convert to Nearpod fairly well. I had introduced Nearpod to the science teachers earlier in the year and they had begun using it. I told them that I would convert the lesson to Nearpod while I observed them teaching if they would demo it for the literacy coach the next class period.

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It didn't take long to get the lesson ready to go in Nearpod. The next class period the two science teachers co-taught the lesson while the literacy coach and I observed. Things didn't go exactly as planned so we made a few tweaks between classes and tried again. The last class of the day went great and our Literacy Coach is a Nearpod convert. She is ready to start using it to make her own lessons.

Even though Co-teaching and Nearpod are not two things that you naturally associate with each other, the two can work together to create a fantastic lesson. The ability to have one teacher circulate the room while the other facilitates discussion and runs the Nearpod presentation increases student engagement, improves teacher feedback, and gives each student greater access to the material and teacher assistance. The next time you plan to co-teach with someone think about bringing Nearpod in to help.

Keith Summerford is an Instructional Technology Coach in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He works with teachers and students in Pre-K - 12th grade. He also maintains a website, MrSummerford.com, with resources for students, parents, and teachers. Keith moved into the world of educational technology after teaching middle grades Social Studies for 11 years.

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