Welcome to Microsoft Teams. Your classrooms digital hub.
I'm Shavonne Smith, the Microsoft learning consultant
who will be the facilitator for today's session. You can find
me on Twitter at Smith educates Ann. While you're there, make
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2020 and you can always use our hashtag Microsoft Edu.
So let's think about Microsoft Teams as a classroom hub there
about five major elements of learning. Of course, this is
never going to be an all encompassing list, but when we
start to think about the type of things that we do with our
students in our classroom spaces, most things seem to fit
under one of these categories, either learning environments,
class, community, lesson, design, engagement and
interactivity, or assessment and
feedback. As we get into Microsoft Teams and look at it
from a classroom type space, we'll be exploring how it
answers to each of these elements. So let's jump on over
into the Microsoft Teams space.
Whenever I come into Microsoft Teams, I like to think of it
like I would be walking into my traditional classroom like I
will be walking into my building and when I get to this main
teams page, thinking about this, is that classroom Hub. This is
me walking down the hallway in picking which classroom I'm
walking into. For this example, I'll go ahead and join my
Smithsonian's homeroom. So I'm going to walk in my door an now.
That I'm in my door. I have my classroom setup. Traditionally,
I may have my teachers desk at the front of the room, or if I'm
using some type of different flexible seating plan that can
be located anywhere in that space, that's going to be
something like my general channel in Microsoft Teams. Not
only is that going to be my teachers desk, that's going to
be my bulletin board and the space that I share out
information with my students because every student.
In my classroom, has access to this as I continue to look
around my room. I may have my students broken up into smaller
sections and learning groups. That's going to be that learning
environment. Remember that first element of learning the way that
I set that up is by using the channels and the tabs within the
teams space, so using channels allows me to create learning
sensors, an organized materials and resources from my students.
As I have in this example, I've got my class broken up in a
couple of different ways. I may have private channels for small
groups I may choose to break my class up by subject area, so if
I'm a homeroom teacher, I have self contained students. I have
a space that they can work on English, math, science or social
studies. I can even break my class up by units and once I
have my class separated into these spaces. Again, thinking
about those learning stations that are set up.
In my classroom now I can use this files tab in this files tab
is where I would go to distribute my handouts and
resources to my students to facilitate collaboration amongst
my students within the classroom team space, there is one special
thing that happens only in that general channel, and that's you
getting this class materials folder. This is the place that
I'm able to put information that I want to be view only for my
students. Teams is a lot about collaboration, so everything
else that's in this file space is going to be my students doing
group work in coming together. But every now and then I do have
a need to put something there that's just going to be resource
information for my students. All of that is within this files
tab, as the instructor I can share read only files in content
and resources here students an myself can collaborate on other
documents within this files tab.
By creating new word documents or Excel spreadsheets,
PowerPoint presentations, even OneNote notebooks, and if you're
one of those organized individuals, you can create
folders. I can also offer comments with the file in. Each
file has a chat feature to allow for conversations about. That
file will show a Word document really quickly and this is
replicating that space that we have in our traditional
classroom settings where me and my students are able to work
together. Able to have conversations, I'm able to give
feedback on the documents that they are working on and when
they're working together they are able to have a conversation
about what they're doing and that simply by clicking on this
conversations tab when everyones working in a document together
they can chat right here.
And this conversation is going to be available to every student
who has access to this document. Again, we're thinking that
learning environment that fosters collaboration and
communication. The second part is our class community. That's
the second element of learning. When I think about that class
community, I'm thinking about those day-to-day interactions,
conversations, dialogue and questions, and I get access to
that in the Post tab within my team's space. So every channel
these smaller sections, these workgroups that I have within my
team, each of them has a post tab included. I'll go down and
look at Unit 1.
Really quickly just to show what this can look like. This is the
space that students and myself as an instructor can interact
with one another. Through this tab, we compose discussion
questions to our students to participate in. Throughout the
week, students can ask questions about content or assignments,
and classmates can socialize and share ideas. One example of this
is me posting my morning question within this space, I
was able to ask my staff.
Green is grass, blue is Sky, Brown is what and all of my
students are able to come here and answer this question. And
because we realize that each student communicates just a
little bit differently, there are multiple modes that students
can reply in. They can reply just using text, they can attach
documents, they can use emojis, they can reply with GIFs or
stickers, and there are multitude of other options that
we can add in to this space. When students are replying to
questions that. I may have posed to them and again students are
able to collaborate and communicate against or with each
other. So when I'm thinking about this space and I'm
thinking about a student who may have missed class this week, or
someone who may need to ask a question and me as the
instructor, I'm not available. They can still ask that question
and it will go out to all of the other students in the class so
someone else can ship in an answer if they have the notes
and share that out.
So what's our third element of learning lesson design? What is
lesson design really? Look like to me. That's encouraging
student participation, polling students, group work, and all of
those different types of activities that I need to
deliver my lessons to students, and how does teams answer to
that? How is it a classroom hub in regards to that? I have tabs
that are available. I can use things like forms and Poly.
Breakout rooms and even collaboration space in my
OneNote class Notebook, let's look at tabs and tabs are
available in every channel of a team that you create. There's
some tabs that come standard, and your general channel an in
the other channels that you create an. There's that powerful
little plus sign there that helps add that additional
functionality into a teams space. With this added tab
feature, I can introduce a variety of tools and
interactions. Then encourage participation. A couple of
examples and I'll stick them in my general channel. Maybe things
like pear deck I can put in things like flipgrid and cahoots
and nearpod just to name a few. So these are all options that I
can add directly into a teams space by adding these into my
Microsoft Teams space, I'm creating that one stop shop for
my students for all of the different things that are a part
of my lesson.
They keep them engaged and that keep them interactive.
Outside of that, I have access to forms in Poly. These are
going to be times that I want to post either in my tab space, or
I can put them into meeting chats. In this post tab, I can
use forms, bots or the Poly feature to create quick polls
and keep my students engaged. So simply by staying within my post
space when I come down to a new conversation, I have the ability
to add into this space.
So I can do a quick poll for my students an I'll see right down
here. I have a couple of options I can put in a Microsoft form
directly here in. This keeps my students engaged and this is an
easy way to get quick and immediate feedback. Now it's
time for group work. Another part of lessons that I do with
my students. Thinking of this, I have these smaller channels that
I've created for my students. I can use these like breakout
rooms, so let's say.
It's time for small group. I have my small group from Masons
Matlock since loans. I can go in and start meetings in each of
these small group channels that my students are able to
participate in an how are you all doing this evening and my
students will have breakout room capabilities where they can work
amongst themselves. Be a face to face meetings and they can share
files. They can add additional tabs for that functionality if
we have that turned on for students and they can use this
post space. Our conversations we can also do
group work within this team's classroom space using
something like class notebook that has a
collaboration space built into it. If you've never
seen class notebook, there isn't besty session taking
place covering all things class notebook. I advise you
to go ahead on over attend that session class notebook
is that secret weapon of a classroom team that will
just up the ante and make sure that all of your
students have access to the tools that they need.
That fourth parts that 4th elements of learning is
engagement and interactivity within my team's classroom
space. I have access to do things like lectures,
demonstrations, collaborate, discussions in my class, more
lectures and demonstrations, and even distributing handouts and
resources to my students. Creating workspaces for students
and facilitating collaboration amongst my students. This goes
more into that meeting feature.
And most of us are pretty familiar with teams meetings.
We've been doing them for quite some time now. Just know that
you can have meetings in your general channel. You can create
them directly from the channel space and when you create a
meeting directly from your channel space and we'll call
this one our homeroom, and we'll go ahead and just click send it
post directly here. So all my student would have to do in
order to meet with me and the rest of the class face to face
is again. Thinking about teams and how it's like walking into
our buildings when they come into that teams app. Walk down
there hallway and find the classroom that they're going
into will go back into this homeroom space, and when they
are in their homeroom, they can join the meeting directly from
here and within that teams of meeting space we have access to
features like raise, hand chat, the ability to share screens and
even whiteboards. And once you've done your lessons and
we're going to throw out some of
these. Education catchwords for the year synchronous and
asynchronous. Once you've got your lessons done, if it's time
for that asynchronous time, you are able to add a stream channel
into your team space. This can hold recordings of other lessons
or recordings of new lessons that you didn't do face to face
meetings for but just information and content that you
want to deliver to your students. Again, we can add
individual channels or entire videos right into this space.
Making it another one stop shop and ensuring that Microsoft
Teams is our classroom hub.
And let's come back to that last element of learning, which is
assessment in feedback. So when we think of something like
assessments and feedback, we're thinking Microsoft forms that
assignments tab that's automatically available within
every class team that you create, where you as the
instructor can go in. You can create assignments, you can
create quizzes, which is based off of forms, or you can pull
assignments that you may have created for other classes in
bring them into this space.
I can also add tabs just for forms, so if I do need to do a
quick assessment of my students, I can always go in at a forms
tab and it pulls from any forms that I may have created
previously. Or I can create a new form directly in this tab
and when I say form that can be a form or a quiz.
I have access to a grades tab me as the instructor this which
showed the grades of the assignments that my students
have completed and for students it would show the grades of the
assignments that they've completed and then the last
thing that I think about when I'm thinking of my traditional
classroom space and how it can be enhanced with teams is how do
I check to make sure that my students are staying time on
task that is also right here within this one stop shop within
this classroom hub via.
Insights the Insights tab is something that only instructors
can add and only instructors have access to see, and this
allows me to track my student activity so I can see my digital
engagement for the week. I have three inactive students and one
that has some new communication. I can easily click into here to
see which students have been active in when.
Emily Reneta, nor Sheena have really been on top of their
work, but I can see this Siobhan was logged in a little bit
earlier and she did something.
By zooming in on that space I can see the time of day the
Schavone was active and when I hover over that purple space for
when she was online, I can see what she worked on. She viewed
the files tab. She uploaded a file, she edited a file an she
replied to a message. So all of these are part of that classroom
experience. I'm able to come in and create a hub for my
students, not to only talk amongst themselves, not to only
have meetings. But to collaborate and communicate with
their peers in myself, I can give them assignments. They can
give feedback. I'm able to get feedback for them, and I'm even
able to lay eyes and see what they're doing and what they're
accomplishing within my classroom space. So I hope this
helps you see how you can use a Microsoft team classroom team as
that digital Hub one stop shop for your class.
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