Microsoft Teams in educational settings is a hub for content and the centerpiece for collaboration. Teams facilitates communication between educators and students, families, colleagues, and the larger school community.

Use Microsoft Forms for surveys, quizzes, and polls in classes to increase student engagement and voice. Office 365 helps streamline and save time managing learning assessments with Forms

Social and emotional skills development is quickly taking center stage alongside cognitive skills, technical skills, and content knowledge in both the classroom and the workforce. Use this path to learn the fundamentals of how technology helps support social emotional learning in the classroom. Creating a strong community begins with mindfulness. It continues by supporting students through the use of social emotional learning techniques. Flip helps engage students in meaningful ways through reflection activities. Lastly, we tie it all together by empowering educators in the hybrid classroom environment.

By using Canva for Education, students can demonstrate their learning with creations like presentations, infographics, websites, reports, interactive group work, posters, social media posts, videos, and more!

Use this path to learn the fundamentals of how technology helps support social emotional learning in the classroom. Creating a strong community begins with mindfulness. It continues by supporting students through the use of social emotional learning techniques. Flipgrid helps engage students in meaningful ways through reflection activities. Lastly, we tie it all together by empowering educators in the hybrid classroom environment

Learn how to use Reflect in Microsoft Teams to support educators and students. It allows students to easily voice how they are feeling in a safe manner. Educators can view student responses at-a-glance, help to identify students that need more support.

Search Coach empowers learners to build information literacy skills that transfer to all search engines. With Search Coach in Microsoft Teams, learners build skills in forming effective queries and identifying reliable resources. Educators then review learners’ work and track progress through Insights. Search Progress allows educators to build Search Coach into Teams assignments, giving educators a detailed view of learners’ research processes and critical thinking during a specific research project.

In this module, you'll learn to distinguish between two mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. When you adopt a growth mindset, you set yourself up for success and are able to take on new challenges.

Differentiation is building different ways of learning into lessons. Accommodations are tools that help students access materials and content that are not otherwise accessible. Both are important during the planning, delivering, and wrap-up phases of lessons. Remote learning presents unique challenges that make it difficult to differentiate or make changes during a lesson. Building in opportunities for students to access the content and lesson; and work in different ways makes learning accessible and engaging for all students.

Using technology well and understanding how online actions affect self and others are foundational skills. These skills are necessary to understand the importance of teaching digital citizenship in today’s educational environments.

By allowing teachers and students to focus on content and not worry about format, the Digital storytelling with Microsoft Sway module shows how Sway can be used to capture and share digital stories that need to be told in and around classroom activities.

With the Flipgrid Discovery Library educators can find great topics for discovery prompts. Educators also create and share their own quality topics for others.

The Flipgrid Discovery Library is the perfect spot to find inspiration from fellow educators and amazing featured Discovery partners. Here you can find ready-to-use discussion prompts that are sure to get your students talking!

Domains are indicated at the end of a URL - you're likely to recognize many 3 letter domains like .com and .gov. Domains can help you understand the type of site you’re visiting. In our research, this is the main way educators currently teach students to look for reliable sources.

Try out Search Coach and Domains when researching Early Persepctives on Social Media.

Implement 21st century skills and learning into classes using 21CLD for lesson design. Practical activities help educators reflect on their practice and that of other educators.

This module is designed for educators of all subject areas who want to empower students to utilize tools to unlock their full potential by addressing a diversity of needs.

Learning objectives
In this module, you will:

Create an accessible and personalized experience in Windows 10 and Office 365
Demonstrate how to implement the tools and apps available to create accessible content
Explain the importance of personalizing the learning device to improve student outcomes

Blended learning in higher education requires an innovative and organized approach to create a more engaging, multi-modal learning experience and achieve better learning outcomes for students. Microsoft 365 tools can help educators build a successful blended learning course, from design and delivery to student engagement and educator feedback.

Integrate Flip into your classroom and beyond to empower every voice. Educators of all subject areas, early grades through higher education, explore Flip ideas and resources from educators around the world.