Microsoft Teams for Education
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Microsoft Teams Education is one of the best classroom and collaboration tools
What is Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams is a chat-based collaboration platform complete with document sharing, online meetings, and many more useful features for business and classroom environments.
Infinity Group can quickly deploy Microsoft Teams for Education also known as Microsoft Teams for Schools to enable Teachers to continue to promote learning in a virtual classroom aside from their normal classroom environment.
Microsoft Teams Education brings together classes virtually
They can easily communicate with students, host virtual learning webinars, host Team Meetings with unlimited pupils and store easily accessible files. Teachers can also collaborate and work alongside pupils on documents at the same time to create that sense that you are both still in close contact with each other.
Full integration with commonly used applications
The Microsoft Teams for Education application fully integrates with the common applications your pupils are used to; such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Teams can conveniently be accessed by Phone, Tablet, Desktop or Browser.
Teams for Education is included within Office 365 Education licenses
Microsoft Teams for Education is very accessible for all schools and educational establishments. It comes as standard with every Office 365 for Education license, including the free version. Office 365 for Education includes the standard applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Microsoft Teams, as well as Sharepoint (document storage), Flow, Stream (video), Forms (surveys) and more.
The benefits of Microsoft Teams for Students
Interact with classmates in a familiar environment
Easily upload assignments and work in one place
Arrange additional help and support when you needed
Collaborate with other students on projects and homework
Simple and easy to use and students can manage their time
Simple and easy to use and students can manage their time
A working environment that keeps students engaged
Microsoft Teams provides a familiar interactive environment for your digitally native students that is both engaging and fun. There are many ways for students to communicate with Teachers and their peers using real time text chat, video, voice and fun emojis, gifs and stickers. Teachers can also easily setup assignments within Teams.
Teams for Education has regular feature updates
Microsoft Teams are continually upgrading and adding new features to insure the service is accessible and easy to use.
Teachers can ensure that Microsoft Teams promotes a safe, productive and engaged learning environment by maintaining full control of communication. This includes the ability to share content with specific groups of people or specific students or setting up private Teams to communicate with staff only. Teachers can also specify user permissions to gain even greater control such as; Preventing students from emailing the entire class or certain individuals.
Is Teams for Education free for schools?
Microsoft Teams for Education comes as standard with every Office 365 for Education license, including the free version. Teams is super accessible for all schools and educational establishments. Office 365 for Education includes the standard applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Microsoft Teams, as well as Sharepoint (document storage), Flow, Stream (video), Forms (surveys) and more.
Microsoft Teams is available to you right now!
Did you know that Microsoft Teams is included with every Office 365 for Education package including the free version?
Many schools already have the Office 365 for Education package but are not using it to its full potential. The Office 365 for Education package includes: Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, SharePoint (document storage), Flow, Form, Sway and Microsoft Teams.
The benefits of using Microsoft Teams for Teachers
Teachers can easily stream Teams Live events to their entire class at the click of a link. Students can interact and ask questions throughout and share a recording of the presentation and relevant material afterwards. Teams will enable you to have full visibility of what students are working on, where they are up to and what they are chatting about to others. Because of the chat feature, Teachers using Teams for Education report a higher percentage of peer to peer learning than in the typical classroom environment. The majority of questions asked by students on Teams are quickly answered by other students, saving you time but also instilling a deeper level of learning. Students can send you their completed work within Teams and you are then able to provide instant feedback or collaborate on the document with them if they require some additional guidance.