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Master Microsoft Teams for any learning environment

Offered By: Microsoft via Microsoft Learn

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Microsoft Teams Courses Online Education Courses Educational Technology Courses Blended Learning Courses Team Management Courses Virtual Meetings Courses Microsoft Forms Courses

Course Description

Overview

  • Module 1: Besides the people, what makes up a team in Microsoft Teams? We examine the structure and components of a team that make Teams such an efficient place for Class, Staff and PLC Teams.

    • In this module, you will:

    • Determine the ideal structure for each Team
    • Understand how to create and share new Teams
    • Explain how to customize Teams with tabs like apps
  • Module 2: Education colleagues collaborate using Microsoft Teams PLC Teams and Staff Teams. PLC Teams are for Personal Learning Communities to engage in professional and personal growth. Staff Teams are designed for school faculties, departments, and district offices.

    • In this module, you will:

    • Select and create the right type of team for specific use cases
    • Understand how to make the most of the OneNote Notebook in each type of team
    • Identify features to optimize collaboration and accessibility in Teams
  • Module 3: Staff Teams and PLC Teams in Microsoft Teams facilitate collaboration between professional colleagues and incorporate file sharing and organization.

    • In this module, you will:

    • Recognize the differences between Staff Teams and PLC Teams
    • Describe use cases for each type of team
    • Understand how to organize people, files, and communications in Teams
  • Module 4: Class Teams have all the tools educators need from course curriculum, down to daily lesson content, right to the details of the assignment workflow. Put another way, from introducing a topic to assessing it, everything has a place in Microsoft Teams. This module will demonstrate creating, distributing, collecting, and grading assignments. Microsoft Forms offers assessments built right into a Class Team. The feedback process in Teams is efficient for educators and meaningful for students. The grade book in Teams can integrate with many external grade book apps. Teams also offers Insights to track trends in students’ work and online behaviors. Those trends can include SEL components thanks to the Reflect app that can be added to Class Teams as well.

    • In this module, you will:

    • Create, distribute, collect, and grade assignments in Microsoft Teams
    • Create and embed polls, quizzes, and surveys with Microsoft Forms
    • Analyze data collected with Insights
  • Module 5: 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.

    • In this module, you will:

    • Identify ways to build a class community using Microsoft Teams
    • Explain how Teams facilitates conversations and collaboration
    • Describe how to use the Class Notebook as a central location for course content
  • Module 6: Discover new ways to create and share Microsoft Teams meetings that facilitate sharing different types of content from various sources. Explore the granular controls educators need while meeting students.

    • In this module, you will:

    • Identify ways to create, share, and launch virtual meetings in Microsoft Teams
    • Define multiple purposes and uses of virtual meetings
    • Describe Microsoft Teams features for security and sharing content
  • Module 7: Did your school see radical shifts in technology implementation during the pandemic? Are you wondering how to take the best of the tools and techniques from pandemic learning and create sustainable practices that increase student engagement and instructional personalization? Blended learning is not a new concept, but it is an instructional innovation that we are now uniquely positioned to adopt in our classrooms across the board in ways we may have previously found impractical. The influx of new technologies and incredible capacity for innovation that has been honed is ripe for transition into a classroom with the intentional flexibility of blended learning. Blended learning combines the best of whole-group instruction, independent learning, small group work, and assessment aided by authentic technology integration. This course walks you through the arc of blended learning models and offers specific technology tool examples to inspire your own plans.

    • In this module, you will:

    • Identify multiple models of blended learning and how they support studentlearning.
    • Determine which technology tools best match the learning goals for differentparts of the blended learning model.
    • Develop a plan for reflection, assessment, and refining your blended learningmodel.
  • Module 8: Blending learning environments offers students the best of all worlds of learning. Blended learning incorporates direct instruction in a face-to-face setting, indirect online instruction, collaborative teaching, and individualized computer-assisted learning to ensure students grow along their own learning paths. This module is designed to help school leaders assess, implement, navigate, and sustain a blended learning environment in their schools in a quest to improve every student’s learning outcomes and ensure high student agency.

    • In this module, you will:

    • Assess current learning environments through a blended learning lens.
    • Communicate with and involve multiple stakeholders in transition to blendedlearning environment.
    • Explain why continuous improvement is important in sustaining blended learningfor the future.

Syllabus

  • Module 1: Structure Teams through channels, tabs, files, and apps
    • Introduction
    • What's in a team?
    • Get started: Create or join a team
    • Establish the guidelines: Manage team members and their permissions
    • Navigate the Teams space
    • Share and collaborate with files
    • Enhance learning with third party apps
    • Better together: Add EDU partners to team sites
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 2: Collaborate with colleagues through live Teams meetings and OneNote
    • Introduction
    • Collaborate with peers via PLC Notebooks 
    • Build structure into Teams with a Staff Notebook 
    • Work in the Collaboration Space to optimize efficiency 
    • Save time by scheduling meetings within Teams
    • Ensure accessibility with live captioning in Teams meetings
    • Turn data into meaningful information with Power BI and Teams 
    • Organize Teams notes and resources with OneNote
    • Modify a PLC Team for learner concerns
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 3: Work collaboratively with Staff and PLC Teams
    • Introduction
    • Distinguish Staff Teams from other teams
    • Use Staff Teams for various educational needs
    • Manage team members to optimize collaboration
    • Focus on what matters: Avoid the email churn with conversations
    • Private channels
    • Collaborate on files for productivity
    • Sync Files tabs locally for offline use
    • Personalize Teams with apps
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 4: Assign and assess learners with assignments and forms in Teams
    • Introduction
    • Create, track, review assignments in a Class Team
    • Check for understanding with Forms in Teams
    • Assignments
    • Support efficiency with the Grades tab 
    • Maximize flexibility with the Grades tab
    • Improve student outcomes with the feedback cycle 
    • Teams provides Insights
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 5: Converse, collaborate, and build community in Teams
    • Introduction
    • Increase efficiency with Microsoft Class Teams 
    • Create an impact on learners
    • Work with a team in channels 
    • Stay connected with conversations
    • Build a content center with Class Notebook
    • Enhance family communication 
    • Let me count the ways: The many educational uses for Microsoft Teams 
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 6: Assemble learners and staff with Microsoft Teams meetings
    • Introduction
    • Create meetings
    • Educator-inspired new interface
    • View options
    • Differentiate with breakout rooms
    • Host live events to stay connected
    • Engagement and focus
    • Purposeful meetings
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 7: Teach forward: Best strategies for hybrid, remote, and blended learning
    • Introduction
    • Define blended learning
    • Modalities of blended learning and the learning arc
    • Use group discussion to support blended learning goals
    • Blended learning and independent work
    • Blend small group collaboration
    • How to blend 1:1 check-ins
    • Learning assessments
    • Student and teacher reflection
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 8: Lead forward: Integrate the best strategies from remote, hybrid, and blended learning for school leaders
    • Introduction
    • Introduction to blended learning
    • Leadership moves
    • Learning environments
    • Build and sustain a blended learning community
    • Effective communication
    • Strengthen and broaden collaboration
    • Cycle of blended learning continuous improvement
    • Blended learning throughout a system
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary

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