- Hi educators.
I hope you're doing well.
My name is Egbert Cheng,
partner marketing manager at Microsoft Education.
Thank you for checking out the session,
top solutions for teaching in Microsoft 365.
In this session you will see five of our partners, Beedle,
Buncee, Discovery Education, Pear Deck,
and Wooclap to demo how they're making solutions
integrated with Microsoft 365,
such as single sign on, PowerPoints,
immersive readers and Microsoft Teams to help you improve
student learning outcome and enhance personalized learning
during this challenging time.
So what are you waiting for,
let our partners show how their
solutions can help you.
- Hi, my name is Gudmundur, and I'm the CTO of Beedle.
We at Beedle are developing educational solutions directly
within Microsoft Teams.
Our goal is to provide schools with the tools needed
to assist teachers with their daily workload,
increase productivity and improve learning outcomes.
All within the familiar environment of Microsoft Teams.
To accomplish this,
we make use of the various Microsoft tools and technologies.
Of course,
we run all our environments in Azure and use many
of the numerous Azure services and functions available.
The Microsoft graph and the graph toolkit are part
of the essential tools we use
and have made our product development
much easier and faster.
The Beedle class list is a good example
where we use the Microsoft graph
to pull in data from the education roster
to build classes with users and user data,
such as emails and photos.
So teachers and students can interact easily.
It also provides the data for some of our in-class
functionalities,
and we use the graph for teachers to create and start online
class meetings with the students.
Teachers can also register and manage student attendance
for their class,
as well as make quick comments that contributes
to the student's diary.
In Beedle planning, teachers can plan their lessons,
manage all teaching materials and share plans and resources
with colleagues and students.
Here, we use the files and SharePoint API
to enable creation and management
of all Microsoft 365 documents in a single place.
You can start using the free Beedle modules in your own
Microsoft Teams for educational environment by installing
Beedle from the Teams app store,
you can also sign up for a free trial of the complete Beedle
EduSpace offering until next school year.
Visit our website for further information
or contact us at support@beedle.co.
- Hi, my name is Eda Jimenez and I'm with Buncee,
a K through 12 creative content creation platform
that aims unlock the power of creativity in each
and every one of us.
And we collaborate with Microsoft Education in so many
different ways,
really with that ambition to be able to help support remote,
hybrid, or physical classrooms as they aim to create fun
and engaging,
but also safe learning spaces for their students,
make it easy for them to be able to collaborate and organize
resources and, last but not least, and more importantly,
make learning accessible for all.
So let's take a look at how all of these different Microsoft
integrations work, especially with Microsoft Teams.
So I'll pass it over to my dear friend and colleague,
Karina Quilantan-Garza,
an educator in the Buncee community.
- Hi everyone.
My name is Karina Quilantan-Garza,
and I'm a library media specialist
at Jaime Escalante Middle School
in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas.
And I love to incorporate Microsoft tools
and Buncee features
to promote engagement, collaboration and accessibility.
I promote a culture of open communication within my virtual
library in several ways.
Using OneNote for interactive journals allows me to embed
Buncees with accompanying information or directions on how
to interpret our Buncee projects of the week.
Cultivating partnerships with my library
colleagues is important to me,
which is why I use the share Teams option to share
library lessons, document templates,
or even announcements.
To avoid an overwhelming amount of emails,
I post important library information as Teams tabs on my
libraries channel to showcase book talk Buncee boards,
to engage reluctant and struggling readers,
student work that
displays student progress, achievements and recognition,
and to ensure that my staff knew where to reach me,
I create a designated space for my teachers to find help
desk meeting links for tech support and trainings.
And after an amazing day of Buncee fun,
I make sure to follow up with my campus by generating Teams
links directly from Buncee
If reteaching a certain skill or concept is needed.
the immersive qualities of all these tools makes the virtual
learning creation and sharing process seamless.
- At Discovery Education.
We know how important it is to keep all students
and teachers connected to curiosity.
That's why we offer a range of resources and experiences
that provide endless opportunities
to investigate real-world problems, uncover understanding,
inspire innovation and pursue unlimited possibilities.
Discovery Education
is a global leader in digital curriculum resources.
with our award-winning digital textbooks
and high quality content,
we serve over 4.5 million educators as they engage students
in their learning.
In this ever-changing world,
The integration of Discovery Education and Microsoft
provides the support
teachers need to seamlessly teach in a remote, hybrid
or face-to-face learning environment.
Let's dive into the integration.
Our office 365 SSO provides a seamless way for teachers
and students to access a wealth of curated resources
in Discovery Education.
Through the same login they use
for other classroom tools.
By adding the Discovery Education app to Teams,
teachers have immediate access to search for resources,
post these resources in channels,
and even add relevant content to tabs.
Teachers can also choose to access Discovery Education
outside of Teams and search for resources.
Our integration allows teachers to share directly from
Discovery Education into their channel and create a post
to share with students.
Our digital textbooks for math, science
and social studies include a glossary for students
to reference and build context around the content
they are learning.
The integration of Microsoft immersive
reader allows students to engage with the definitions
in the best way for them, whether that's through read aloud,
changing the size, font, and color,
using the line focus tool,
changing the language and much more.
As our integration with Microsoft continues to grow,
we invite you to join us for a demo by visiting
discoveryeducation.com or reaching out to our educational
partnerships team.
(bright music)
- With Pear Deck for Teams you can create
and launch a Pear Deck lesson
in record time with no join code.
Let's see how it works.
First, make sure you have a Pear Deck lesson ready to go.
You can add interactivity and formative assessments
to an existing file or build a new lesson from scratch
using the add in for PowerPoint online.
When you're done and your file
has auto saved to OneDrive,
you're ready to go.
Find your classroom.
To launch your presentation,
simply add a tab from the menu and choose Pear Deck.
From there, select your lesson from OneDrive.
Make sure that post to the channel about this tab is checked
so that your students know your Pear Deck is starting.
Then click save.
Some magic just happened behind the scenes.
Let's slow down and take a closer look.
Pear Deck is working behind the scenes to help give you
control over your class.
Your Pear Deck teacher dashboard
is automatically up and running
in the tab that you opened,
the dashboard gives you the tools to control the pace
of the lesson and gives you a private view
of student responses.
You can quickly see how many students have joined
your session and your presentation controls
are located at the bottom of the screen.
The projector view is also running.
If you want to see the projector view in a separate window,
you can click open projector view and a new window
will launch from your default web browser.
On the classroom side,
your students will automatically see a prompt to join
your Pear Deck session in their Teams
Conversation channel.
Clicking on the link opens a new tab for them,
no time wasted navigating to a URL or entering join codes,
just a fast, seamless experience for the whole class.
And with that, you're off.
Check out our other help videos for more tips and tricks
for making the most of your Pear Deck powers.
- [Albane] Hi.
My name is Albane and I'm the marketing and communication
manager at Wooclap.
I'm very pleased to be able to present at the ISTE 2020
and talk to you about Wooclap.
Wooclap is an online platform
encouraging participation in class and remotely
with interactive questions to make
learning awesome and effective.
Thanks to it's 14 different types of questions you can ask,
it allows you to measure your audience comprehensiveness
and interact synchronously or asynchronously
in both an in-class or remote teaching context.
And I have great news for you.
Wooclap integrates with PowerPoint,
PDF, keynotes, with other tools too,
but what interests us today is Teams and how it works
with Wooclap.
Let's dig in.
How does Wooclap really works?
As you can now see on my screen,
I'm on the teacher side of the platform
and I can add questions, slide,
or activate other functionalities within the app.
So now I've just opened up the Teams app on my computer
and here is how to use Wooclap within Teams.
Click on the app button, let me type Wooclap, press enter.
And here it is,
now you just have to connect to your account.
I've selected the event I've just created for my class
and I can now present, go to the next slide,
Invite them to connect to my Wooclap
and interact with my audience.
Thank you for watching this demo.
Wooclap was launched in 2015 and have more than 400,000
professors using Wooclap every day for their classes
in more than 150 countries.
You now have my contact information displayed on the screen.
You can contact me, visit our website,
and I hope to talk to you very soon.
- [Egbert] I hope you have found and learned something new
from these partners.
Visit the websites of Beedle, Buncee, Discovery Education,
Pear Deck, and Wooclap to learn more
about their solutions.
Also check out our latest Microsoft Education
third party solutions brochure
via aka.ms/eduapps.
We have a list of hundreds of our partners solutions
in different categories, such as accessibility,
communication and collaboration, student assessment
and engagement, you name it.
These solutions will greatly help you save more time,
improve your students' learning outcome,
and enhance their personalized learning.
Thank you.
I hope you have a wonderful day.
A great ISTE 2020 and an early happy holiday.
Bye bye.