Flip, formerly Flipgrid, was a video service designed for school classrooms that Microsoft bought in 2018. It's now slowly shutting down.
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Microsoft has just announced a new feature for Teams for Education, Speaker Progress, that aims to help students improve their public speaking skills. It is now available for all users.
The Microsoft Education division has announced more new generative AI features are being added to its services for students and educators. That includes new AI features for Reading Coach
Microsoft Teams for Education has added a new feature called School Connection. It lets parents and guardians keep track of their children's academic progress and goals on their smartphones.
Microsoft will be rolling out a number of new features for its Teams for Education customers during November and early December, including a way to reuse class modules and many more.
The new Search Progress added to Microsoft Teams for Education help students search for sources in their research projects, and teachers can check up on how students find and search for information.
The Microsoft Classwork app is designed to help teachers create class assignments for students, with features like links to OneNote pages, websites, and Teams channels. Even more features are planned.
Following Teams, Microsoft's Teams for Education is also getting a two times performance boost, alongside reduced CPU, RAM, disk, and other resource usages. There are also other new features.
Microsoft's new blog post talks about the impact of COVID-19 on education. To facilitate better remote learning, the company is working on new features including 7x7 grid and breakout rooms.
Microsoft has announced a wave of improvements for Microsoft Teams for Education just in time for the back-to-school season, including rubric grading, a dark mode, immersive reader and more.