Microsoft Teams

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For schools using Office 365, Microsoft Teams brings together lesson content, collaboration and apps in one easy place for students to access. Here are five great apps you can use with your class inside Microsoft Teams.  

Flipgrid

Want to have Video Questions and Answers directly in your classes Microsoft Team Channel? Flipgrid allows teachers to ask questions and have students leave video responses using a range of devices. Students can also respond to other students, creating full class discussions. You can add Flipgrids, so that students can add and record directly from inside Teams. You can also add an optional connector, so that everyone is alerted to new videos added. Find out more… 

Quizlet

Quizlet is a popular revision tool for students, with millions of study sets already created by teachers and students to cover thousands of popular topics. With the Microsoft Teams integration you can share any study set, so students have sets chosen (or created) by you right inside your class channel. All of the Quizlet Activities, such as Flashcards, Learn, Write, Spell and the Match and Gravity Games will run from inside Teams. Find out more… 

Wakelet

Wakelet allows teachers and students to save, organise and share content from across the web. You can organise content into collections and you can bookmark anything, from individual tweets, articles, videos or resources and share them with your class as a new tab inside Teams. It’s easy to add more content to your collection at any time, using the Wakelet Chrome Extension, Android or iOS App – so you can keep your class up to date with the latest content. Find out more… 

Nearpod

Nearpod allows teachers to create and share interactive lessons with their students. Nearpod content can include Quizzes, Polls or VR Field Trips, delivered in real time to all students in the class. All Nearpod Lessons can be shared as a tab in Microsoft Teams, making it easy for students to access the lesson content quickly and easily. Find out more

PearDeck – Coming Soon

PearDeck allows teachers to create interactive presentations, adding multiple choice questions, draggable activities, drawing and weblinks to your existing presentations to create active learning and formative assessment opportunities. Teachers can see the outcomes in real time and share with the class, to promote class discussions.  Find out more..

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