If you would like to organise students into groups on Teams, to chat with them or send a post directed to them, you can use the tags feature to do so. Using tags as groups may be useful to keep track of students in group tasks or...
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In a Microsoft Teams live meeting you can share and collaborate with your students using the Whiteboard tool. This tool has recently been updated and includes more features like templates, note grids, uploading documents and images. Below is a...
In Microsoft Teams, you can view students’ engagement via the Insights Tool. This may be useful if you use Microsoft Teams for discussions and want to see how students are engaging. Please note this feature is only available for...
You can change the permissions for a file or folder to restrict access to it in Teams. This would be useful when dealing with group tasks – where allowing a group access to only their own file or folder...
The immersive reader in teams allows the user to have channel posts and chat messages read aloud as well as some other read accessibility features, for example, changing the background colour for the text and changing the text language....
During my placement year, I used the Microsoft Teams application, which was very useful working remotely from home. One feature that I don’t think is well known in Teams is that you can share your screen directly from chat...
During my placement I have been using Teams to work from home but also to produce written and video guides on specific features for teaching and learning. Below are three features that I think are underused and have lots...
Have you ever been in a Teams meeting and you can’t quite read the information being shared? Now you can zoom into that screen with interrupting the person sharing or anyone else in the meeting! Watch the video below...
You can now set a timer for your breakout rooms so participants return to the main room after a set period of time automatically, meaning you don’t have to time activities your self. The timer can be in minutes...
Within a Microsoft Teams session, as an organiser you can disable the use of microphones and cameras to ensure your presentation goes uninterrupted. In order to do this the participants of the session must have attendee status. For a...