Microsoft Teams is part of the Office 365 suite of apps. Teams provide teachers and pupils with safe area to share content including websites, documents and videos. It includes a range of communication tools including messaging and video calling and allows teachers to assign resources and assignments out to pupils.
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A class team provides a hub for teaching and learning where you can share and communicate effectively and safely.
Now that you have created your team, find out how to add staff collaborators and pupil users to it.
Find out how to embed a web page within your new classroom.
Find out how you can safely run a video conference call that your pupils can participate in. Record the meeting for safeguarding compliance and find out how to embed the recording in your team.
Find out how to assign resources or work to pupils in your class. This video shows the teacher view of the workflow process.
Now that you've assigned some work to your class, find out what your pupils will see and how they will access, complete and return work.
Find out how to easily view and provide comments and feedback for work submitted by your pupils.
It sounds complicated but isn't. Rubrics allow you to set up a mark scheme and to select from it when viewing/grading pupil work.
Find out what options there are for archiving, deleting and reusing an MS Team.
Find out how to manage and control how pupils join and participate in your Teams meetings.
Use a combination of MS Teams and MS Stream to share a video with your parents (e.g. Christmas play, etc.)
Using the Insights app, you can track how pupils have engaged with the different parts of your team.
Whiteboard is a simple but powerful app allowing you to share a virtual whiteboard with your class. This video shows different ways of accessing whiteboard including through a Teams video meeting.
As well as using the Teams Whiteboard app, by downloading the dedicated MS Whiteaboard app you can get access to additional features. By sharing your screen, you can still use this during a video call but can also give pupils or colleagues direct access to the board to collaborate in real time.