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This school year has kicked off with a bang. We've heard of schools starting with in-person, remote, or hybrid learning or quickly adjusting from one to another. Whether you're doing a learning juggling act or deep into your school year, Microsoft Teams for Education has been right there with new changes and improvements announced in June, July and for back to school to help schools adapt to learning.
More and more stories are emerging of educators, students, families, and staff adapting and striving to make education work. Thank you for sharing your feedback, triumphs, and difficulties with us along the way. We know this is not easy, and we are grateful and humbled that you are choosing Microsoft Teams. Each new and improved feature we design is inspired by you, and for you.
For this month, we have Teams updates that will help make digital learning, collaboration, and engagement easier. No matter how your school is in session, we've got you covered to:
1) Use data insights to improve teaching and learning
2) Run engaging classes through online meetings
3) Do more with OneNote and Class Notebook in Teams
4) Maintain student safety with control of age-appropriate messaging and content
5) Build an interactive classroom with education apps
6) Train yourself in Teams with additional resources

Let's dive in! (If you're just looking for a list without extra description, click here to jump.)

1) Use data insights to improve teaching and learning
Gain insights into how your school is engaging in online learning
To ensure that school and system leaders also have a full view of the online learning activities of all their students, we're pleased to announce the addition of new functionality in Education Insights available in preview today. This new Insights app in Microsoft Teams for Education enables leaders to closely track the engagement and progress of students over time in ways that identify the most effective approaches, directly inform teaching, and aid in bringing solutions to scale.

Insights for Leaders shows data to help leaders better understand the online learning activities of students and, intervene immediately if needed. It also supports one-click data export to comply with emerging state regulations that require mandatory reporting.

With Insights, education leaders and teachers can stay in touch with how each one of their students is responding, and take action to ensure the best learning outcomes for individual students, and entire school districts.

When: available for preview now (and Insights is free for any schools with A1, A3, or A5 licenses while in preview)

2) Run engaging classes through online meetings
Spotlight the video of the educator or presenter
With Spotlight, educators will be able to lock their video for the whole class. This helps educators control the main video feed that a student sees during the meeting. It can only be enabled or disabled by the organizer or presenter. This is different from "Pin participant", which allows an individual to pin a video feed for their own view but not for the view of all meeting participants.

When: expected in the next few months

3) Do more with OneNote and Class Notebooks in Teams
Less work for you updating the roster
SDS updates now automatically flow to the OneNote Class Notebook. Before, when SDS made roster updates for students in the class, the updates wouldn't appear until an educator clicked on the "Class Notebook" tab in the class team.

When: available now

Set channel specific collaboration and content spaces
Now an educator has the option to set Channels to create sections in Collaboration Space or Content Library, which is especially helpful for educators who like to use channels as separate units. While in a class team, go to the Class Notebook and click "Manage Notebook" to choose which channel a new Section will go. This allows the educator to create a "read-only" Content Library or student editable "Collaboration Space" specific to each unit and channel.

When: available now

Easy OneNote page creation in Assignments
When educators are creating assignments or students are attaching work it's helpful to be able to create a New File on the fly. Educators will be able to add a blank OneNote page while creating a new Assignment in Teams by clicking on "New File" (along with creating a new Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document).

When: expected early September

Easy OneNote distribution notifications for educators and students
Benefit of using the Class Notebook inside of Teams? The Class Notebook bot. When an educator uses Page Distribution in OneNote all students will get a notification in Teams. The notification works for educators using the Class Notebook Toolbar in OneNote Windows 10, iPad, Web and Mac.
When: expected late September

Reduce clicks to get the "Teacher Only" area
Now in the OneNote Class Notebook or the Staff Notebook, the "Teacher Only" section group will be enabled by default. This saves some extra clicks for this more private view.
When: available now

For more about these and other awesome OneNote and Class Notebook updates, check out this post here.

4) Maintain student safety with control of age-appropriate messaging and content
Detect and delete inappropriate messages
Sometimes, students send inappropriate messages. To continue fostering a culture of inclusion and safety, IT admins can leverage communication compliance policies and AI models to automatically detect inappropriate content, then review and choose to delete. Messaging containing offensive or harassing language and adult, racy, or gory images can be automatically flagged then removed from the Teams chat or channel by the IT Admin. This is not supported in private channels or in communications sent by guest users. Learn more about using this and other communication compliance tools in Teams here.

When: available now

5) Build an interactive classroom with education apps
With remote and hybrid learning, it's more important than ever to find ways to keep students engaged and learning throughout the day. Here are just a few of the many education apps that support connected learning within Teams.

Step up your student engagement game
With Kahoot! teachers, professors, and fellow students can use the game-based learning platform to create quick and fun learning assignments or quizzes in minutes.

WooClap makes presentations fun and interactive for university and college students by turning smart phones and any connected device into a learning tool. Professors can create "find on image" questions, multiple choice questions, word clouds and view and interpret results in real time.

Try an easy Q&A platform that drives higher student participation with Piazza. University professors and students will have access to a wiki style format that builds a single, high quality answer for all and allows the professor to endorse an answer and let students know they're on the right track.

Learn more about these and other engagement and communication apps.

Use, share and assign amazing visual resources and content collections
Quickly create engaging live or recorded class presentations with Prezi Video. Appear right alongside your content as you present and easily create or transform that content to your class needs.

Featuring an easy-to-use drag and drop interface, thousands of unique graphics and animations, and countless creation tools, Buncee makes it easy to create fun and engaging multimedia based content.

Wakelet allows students and teachers to save, organize and share content from across the web in a visually engaging way. Share collections of resources, create individualized playlists, set assignments and share newsletters.

Learn more about these and other content and curriculum apps here and here.

6) Train yourself in Teams with additional resources
Learn about Teams:

1. Quickly learn about Teams and common classroom scenarios with clickable interactive demos for educators, families, and IT Admins (in English).

2. Learn more about strategies to promote well-being among children during back-to-school. Sign up for the Microsoft + MindUP webinars at http://aka.ms/MindUpVirtual

3. Check out the Quick Start Guides if you're an Educator (PDF), Student (PDF), or IT Admin.

Get free training:

1. Start on Professional Development with the popular Microsoft Educator Community course, Transform Learning with Microsoft Teams.

2. Watch the recordings from the Microsoft Teams for Edu digital readiness event for both educators and IT Admins. These sessions dive into common scenarios, use cases to get ready for the school year at https://aka.ms/TeamsEduEvent.

3. Watch helpful quick "how-to" videos with Teams Quick Tip videos on YouTube (or pick from a different Teams how-to video playlist here).

Check out these additional resources:

1. Deploy class teams with these recommended methods and best practices for creating class teams.

2. If you still need it, get resources and support to do a virtual orientation. Check out the blog here.

3. Check out resources for parents, guardians or family members looking to support student learning: https://education.microsoft.com/resource/755e5a8b

4. Sign up for free virtual field trips and learning activities for educators and parents looking to keep their kids engaged, like Roald Dahl day, International Dot Day, Drawing with the Minecraft Design team, and more.

5. Learn about Teams online meeting safety guidance for educators and administrators.

6. Check the Teams help homepage. You can also click Help in your Teams app at any time for extra how-tos and support!

And for those that love lists, here's a quick review of all the features we shared along with their expected launch dates:

1. Use data insights to improve teaching and learning
(Update) Education Insights for school leaders- available now in public preview

2. Run engaging classes through online meetings
(New) Spotlight - expected in the next few months

3. Do more with OneNote and Class Notebook in Teams
(New) SDS update to the OneNote Class Notebook - available now
(New) Set Channels to create Collaboration Space or Content Library - available now
(New) "Teacher Only" section group will be enabled by default - available now
(New) Add blank OneNote page in new Assignment - expected September
(New) Notification in Teams for OneNote Page Distribution - expected late September

4. Maintain student safety with control of meetings and classrooms
(New) Detect and delete inappropriate messages - available now

And in case you missed it, here are features we announced in last month's round-up that are coming soon:
Run engaging classes through online meetings

Dynamic view - expected later this year
Attendance Report post-meeting download - expected in September
Digital Whiteboard without student access - expected in September
Teams meetings up to 1,000 interactive participants - coming in the last quarter of 2020 (in Advanced Communications add-on option)
Virtual Breakout rooms - no later than early Q4 2020

Maintain student safety with control of meetings and classrooms

Hard Audio Mute - expected in September

Do more with Assignments in Teams

View assignments across all classes (again) - expected in September
Link thumbnail preview - expected in September
Anonymous Grading/Marking - expected in September
Larger file size and count support - expected in September
Icon refresh - expected in September
Support for students no longer enrolled - expected in September

Keep learners engaged and collaborating in the classroom

D2L's Brightspace Course Connector - expected in August September

You've got this. And we're right here if you need us.

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14 updates for Immersive Reader: General availability on Azure, a Code.org partnership and lots more

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Just a few years ago, the Immersive Reader was a bold idea in a Microsoft Hackathon focused on using the latest science and research around reading while using inclusive design principles to empower students of all abilities. Today, more than 23 million people every month are using it, improving their reading and writing comprehension and even their ability to do math problems.

Today, we're thrilled to announce this powerful literacy tool has reached General Availability as an Azure Cognitive Service, allowing third party apps and partners to add Immersive Reader right into their products. During the public preview period, we've had scores of partners integrate the Immersive Reader, and some of them are listed below. The Immersive Reader helps people of all abilities, including dyslexia, ADHD, emerging readers, non-native speakers, people with visual impairments. If there's an app you love to use in your classroom and you would love to see an Immersive Reader icon show up there soon, let them know. You can also head over to the Azure blog and learn more about this new Cognitive Service.

Get Started Today
To begin exploring how to integration the Immersive Reader into your app or service, here are some helpful getting start links:

We look forward to hearing your feedback, and partners enabling the Immersive Reader to help even more people with reading. Head on over the the Azure blog to get more specific details on this new Cognitive Service.

New Partners Integrate Immersive Reader

With today's announcement of Immersive Reader moving to General Availability, we are excited to announce new partners who are integrating this inclusive tool.
Code.org helps make computer science more inclusive
Code.org is a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools and increasing participation by women and underrepresented youth. Their vision is that every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer science, just like biology, chemistry or algebra. To help ensure Code.org can reach every student, they have begun to integrate the Immersive Reader into their platform, and this fall will be rolling out an open beta of this integration. An example of one way this integration will surface is below.

"We're thrilled to partner with Microsoft to bring Immersive Reader to the Code.org community," said Hadi Partovi, founder and CEO of Code.org. "The inclusive capabilities of Immersive Reader to improve reading fluency and comprehension in learners of varied backgrounds, abilities and learning styles directly aligns with our mission to ensure every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer science."

SAFARI Montage
SAFARI Montage is the leading K-12 Learning Object Repository, Video Streaming Library, IPTV & Live Media Streaming provider. The system provides an interoperable foundation for a Digital Learning Ecosystem where teachers and students can access procured, created and curated educational digital resources, create playlists and integrate items into their LMS. The inclusion of Immersive Reader from Microsoft inside the SAFARI Montage Learning Object Repository (LOR) enhances the equitable access of SAFARI Montage resources for all learners. It provides ideal support for remote learning as instructions to students written in English will be accessible to virtually any learner, in any language or with any reading ability.

"Immersive Reader is a crucial support for CPS students and families. During remote learning, particularly for our younger learners, student learning is often supported by parents, guardians, or other caregivers. Since Microsoft Immersive Reader can be used to translate the student facing instructions in our digital curriculum, families can support student learning in over 80 languages, making digital learning far more equitable and accessible than ever before! In addition, read-aloud and readability supports are game changers for diverse learners" - Giovanni Benincasa, UX Manager, Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Digital Learning, Chicago Public Schools
The embedded video below shows how Immersive Reader helps SAFARI Montage students and educators.
SchoolBox integrates Immersive Reader
The LMS from Schoolbox is a highly customizable learning management system that accommodates a range of modern teaching strategies. Its components support learner interaction, creativity, a growth mindset, student wellbeing, and expands learning beyond the classroom to suit all K-12 learners. Share resources, individualized learning, increase collegiality. To help ensure content is fully accessible and inclusive, SchoolBox has integrated the Immersive Reader. You can see an example in this video.

Immersive Reader is coming to more Microsoft apps!
Microsoft Math Solver and the Immersive Reader make math more inclusive
The Microsoft Math solver web site and IOS and Android apps all help students solve math problems independently. Especially during remote learning, this has been a helpful app for students and families. To ensure all students can access the content in the step-by-step solution aspects of the Math Solver, we are adding the Immersive Reader, including all the capabilities to read math out loud, including more complex equations. You can also translate, use line focus, and all of the other Immersive Reader features.

This has already rolled out to the web version of Math Solver (example GIF below) and is coming to the iOS and Android mobile apps at the end of August.
Immersive Reader coming to Outlook Desktop and the Mail app on Windows 10
Last year we added Read Aloud to Outlook Desktop, and as a result heard from many people around the world about the positive impact this gave to those reading email. Later this fall, in Outlook Desktop we will be rolling out many of the same Immersive Reader capabilities that Word Desktop currently has. An example of how this will look is below.

In addition, we will be bringing this same set of Immersive Reader features to the Mail client on Windows 10 in the 4th quarter of 2020

Microsoft Forms Mobile and Consumer
We launched Immersive Reader in Forms for our Education customers in fall of 2019. This fall we are rolling out Immersive Reader for our consumer Forms customers who use Outlook.com. There will be a switch to enable Immersive Reader for customers who want this capability. In addition, customers using Forms on a mobile phone will also be able to enable the Immersive Reader.

Immersive Reader Enhancements
Immersive Reader SDK 1.1 updates
With today's announcement of the General Availability of the Immersive Reader as an Azure Cognitive Service, we have also rolled out some top requests from partners to improve our software development kit (SDK). Version 1.1 adds support to have a page read aloud automatically, or to pass in a language parameter and pre-translate content. Developers can read more about our SDK updates here.
10,000+ new Picture Dictionary Images
The Picture Dictionary in the Immersive Reader has been one of our most well-loved capabilities. We're expanding our partnership with Tobii Boardmaker and including many more images into our Picture Dictionary. For many languages, we will be adding over 10,000 new images, and we expect all current Picture Dictionary languages will get more images. These additional images will show up for Microsoft apps as well as any partner using our Immersive Reader Cognitive Service.

More Neural Text-to-Speech and translation languages
15 new Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) voices.
We are always looking to broaden the languages and locales of Immersive Reader. Today we are excited to announce 15 new Neural TTS languages for the Immersive Reader. Neural Text-to-Speech is the "human sounding" read aloud voices that we've rolled out in a limited number of languages. We've added 15 more to Immersive Reader, including: Salma in Arabic (Egypt), Zariyah in Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Alba in Catalan (Spain), Christel in Danish (Denmark), Neerja in English (India), Noora in Finnish (Finland), Swara in Hindi (India), Colette in Dutch (Netherland), Zofia in Polish (Poland), Fernanda in Portuguese (Portugal), Dariya in Russian (Russia), Hillevi in Swedish (Sweden), Achara in Thai (Thailand), HiuGaai in Chinese (Cantonese, Traditional) and HsiaoYu in Chinese (Taiwanese Mandarin). Read the blog for the new list, and explore the full list of Neural TTS languages.
5 new Translate languages in Immersive Reader
Our friends on the Microsoft Translator team have been hard at work launching 5 new languages, and today the Immersive Reader is adding this under our "Translate" menu, for either by Word or entire Document. The new languages are: Gujaratim Marathi, Oriya, Kurdish (Northern), Kurdish (Central), Pashto & Dari.
And this is for folks who like lists!

1. Immersive Reader for Azure Cognitive Services (General Availability) - available today

2. Safari Montage and Immersive Reader - available today

3. SchoolBox and Immersive Reader - available today

4. Immersive Reader Cognitive Services SDK 1.1 updates - available today

5. 10,000+ new Picture Dictionary Images - coming this fall

6. Fifteen New Neural Text to Speech languages - available today

7. Five new languages for translation in Immersive Reader- Gujaratim Marathi, Oriya, Kurdish (Northern), Kurdish (Central), Pashto and Dari - available today

8. Microsoft Math Solver and Immersive Reader (Web) - available today

9. Microsoft Math Solver and Immersive Reader (iOS) - late August

10. Microsoft Math Solver and Immersive Reader (Android) - late August

11. Forms Consumer and Forms Mobile Immersive Reader - late August

12. Code.org and Immersive Reader - Fall, 2020

13. Outlook Desktop and Immersive Reader - Fall, 2020

14. Mail app on Windows 10 and Immersive Reader - 4th quarter, 2020

We hope you enjoy these new Immersive Reader updates! Don't hesitate to reach out with any questions or comments.

Mike Tholfsen

Principal Product Manager

Microsoft Education

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Microsoft Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, content, and apps together in one place. Educators can create collaborative classrooms, connect in professional learning communities, and communicate with school staff - all from a single experience in Office 365 Education.

Go to Teams now.

What's new?

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See how teachers and school leaders in Omaha Public Schools use Microsoft Teams to empower collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and communication.

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Empower student voice

Provide opportunities for learners to share information and express themselves using presentation tools.

Browse all educator training.

Product guides

Teams for education

A digital hub for collaborative classrooms that brings meetings, content, and apps together in one place.

Minecraft: Education Edition

A game-based learning platform that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive digital environment.

Office 365

Build collaborative classrooms with popular applications like Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, School Data Sync and more.

Flipgrid

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Organize your lesson plans and course content in your own digital notebook ensuring you keep track of every assignment or a flash of inspiration.

PowerPoint

Presentation application that creates a slide show of important information, charts, and images to display during a presentation.

Immersive Reader

Free tool that implements proven techniques to improve reading and writing for people regardless of their age or ability.

Reading Progress

Free tool designed to help students build confidence and reading fluency through personalized reading experiences built into Assignments in Microsoft Teams.

Browse all educator training.

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Microsoft Innovative Educators

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Three starting principles for remote learning

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In this module, Matt shares some practical advice on how to ensure the work we set students to complete at home is varied, allows for independent learning, and that is extends the work done in school – whilst not adding to teachers’ workloads.

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Matt explores the purpose of home schooling and offers some important caveats to manage school leaders’ expectations of what can be achieved whilst students learn at home. He explores the two priorities schools should place front-and-centre when they are closed, and parents are responsible for their child’s education.