Category: Teams
Teams: Use Insights to Get Data on Student Engagement
Microsoft Teams is great for interacting and engaging with students but it can be a little hard to know how much they are interacting and using Teams. Sure there are some obvious ways to check on how engaged your students are in Teams (cough, cough Assignments) but those are proxies at best. Fortunately, Microsoft ...
Meeting Options, I forgot to change it!
Has your meeting started with all your lovely kiddos and you realize you forgot to change the presentation options? Are students randomly muting one another or worse you? The quick fix to changing meeting options while in the meeting is here! First you will need to open the participants window from your Teams taskbar: Then ...
New Features in Teams
More Video Feeds Microsoft has begun rolling out some new features for Microsoft Teams. As you can see above, one of those new features is that Teams will now support up to 9 video feeds! This is the first step in moving beyond the 2 X 2 grid that Teams was limited to previously. ...
Record Your Teams Meeting (without students)
You may be looking for screen recording options or ways to asynchronously record a lesson for your students. While we are discouraging recording meetings held with students in Teams, you can record your own “meeting” to post content directly in the team for students to access in their own time. Whether recording or hosting meetings ...
My Week with Meetings in Teams
Over the past couple of weeks, all of us have found ourselves learning new ways to do the things we used to do. That is certainly the case for how we meet and work together now. Since schools closed, all of us have been scrambling to find ways to continue our collaborative efforts with colleagues ...
Add Your Sweet Website to Teams
An Open Letter to Teachers With a Boss Website If we're being honest, I think your website is pretty amazing. You've done an excellent job over the last 17 years organizing, revamping and making sure it hums and sings a glorious song about your class and all the great learning that goes on there. However, ...
Pin Files to Make Them Easier to Find
In Teams, files are super easy to create and collaborate on. However, sometimes it can be a little tricky to find them. Thanks to a new feature recently rolled out by Microsoft, helping team members find files just got easier. You can now pin any file to the top of the Files tab (or inside ...
Teams Adds a Gradebook View
You may have noticed an extra tab the last time you logged into Teams. If you're like me you immediately clicked it and discovered that the tab gives you a gradebook style view of all the assignments and student grades on those assignments. It's pretty sweet, and if you are less impulsive than me, you ...
Turnitin.com Originality Checker Now Available Within Teams
Woot! You can now have Teams check for plagiarism using Turnitin.com's powerful originality checker. Read below to find out how. How To Use Turnitin's Originality Checker In Teams Open teams and click into the Assignments tab. Enter all of your normal information (Title, instructions, etc.) and then scroll to the bottom of the card. There ...
You Can Now Add Files From Any of Your Teams In Teams Assignments
Making, distributing and collecting assignments in Teams is easy-peasy. However, it hasn't been super easy to pull files you've created in a different team and pull them into an assignment. Prior to a new feature rolled out today, you had to go and create a copy of the file and move it to the team ...