Microsoft Teams

What is Microsoft Teams for Education?

Microsoft Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, content, and apps together in one place. Educators can create collaborative classrooms, connect in professional learning communities, and communicate with school staff – all from a single experience in Office 365 Education.

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Get started with Reflect in Teams

Getting started with Reading Progress in Teams

Breakout rooms in meetings

Keeping students safe in Microsoft Teams

Use data to support students with Insights in a class team.

Microsoft Teams quick start for educators and students

Best practices for educators and students in Teams meetings

Editing Word documents in Teams

Classwork

Manage classwork modules in Microsoft Teams

Manage classwork resources in Microsoft Teams

View and navigate Classwork

Curious how it works in schools?

See how educators and school leaders in Omaha Public Schools use Microsoft Teams to empower collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and communication.

Introducing classroom experiences in Microsoft Teams

Check out training videos and resources

Transform learning with Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Educator Center course)

Discover educational apps that work in Teams (Microsoft Educator Center resource)

"You Can!" quick tip videos

Microsoft Teams for Education video playlist

Microsoft Teams for Education quick start guide for IT Admins

Microsoft Teams Quick Start for educators and students

Best practices for school leaders creating teams and channels

Keeping students safe in Teams

View all your teams

Choose a team type

Create a class team

Create a staff team

Create a PLC team

Choose a team type

Add another educator

Add a student to a class team

Change your class theme

Change your display language

Find your class team's settings

Create assignment

View and navigate your assignments (educator)

View and navigate your assignments (student)

Assign work to multiple classes

Assign work to individual students or small groups

Use Turnitin with Microsoft Teams (educator) 

Schedule work to assign later

Delete an assignment

Save an assignment as a draft

Edit an assignment

Repost an assignment In Microsoft Teams

Distribute quizzes to students using Assignments

Track student progress in the Grades tab (educator)

Track your progress in the Grades tab (student)

Review, return, and turn in assignments with the feedback loop

Get started with Reading Progress in Teams

Create reusable grading rubrics

Export grades to Excel

Turn in an assignment (student)

Manage assignments on a mobile device

Add a category to an assignment

Add MakeCode activities to Assignments 

Read an assignment using Immersive Reader

Best practices for class meetings (educator and student)

Keeping students safe in meetings, channels, and chats

Create and manage breakout rooms during class meetings

Use Insights in a class team

Delete a class team

Use the Conversation tab

Mute a single student

Mute multiple students

Notify the entire class and post announcements

Read posts and messages with Immersive Reader

Remove an educator

Remove students

Turn weekly parent guardian emails on or off

Restrict students from creating class teams in Microsoft Teams

Create read-only files for students or other team members

Edit Word documents in Teams

Create channels for student project groups

Archiving classes at the end of the school year in Microsoft Teams

Use Skype to meet virtually with students or staff

Use OneNote Staff Notebook

Use OneNote Class Notebook

Set up a Class Notebook in Teams using existing content

Using Class Notebook to work in student groups

Teams for Education is not working for me

Ask your educator for help in Microsoft Teams

Why can't I use chat?

I'm having trouble synchronizing Planner

Get diagnostic data to troubleshoot Assignments

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