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Best headphones for schools in 2020
Headphones and microphones are quickly becoming a school purchase as essential as a pencil case. With learning increasingly being accessed online and the advert of the hybrid-classroom, video conferencing headsets can be the difference between being able to access lesson or not. Students who cannot cannot attend school in person are reliant on using a headset to connect with teachers and other students over Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meetup. But headsets are also increasingly…
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How to pin posts in Microsoft Teams
Each channel in Microsoft Teams has a Posts tab, which is great for holding class discussions or making quick announcements to students. Unfortunately, it’s really easy for conversations to become lost, especially when lots of students are involved in the discussion. Important announcements can quickly scroll off the top of the screen and be missed…
How to pin a video stream for all students in Microsoft Teams meetings
There have been lots of great updates to Microsoft Teams video meetings in the last few weeks, but one thing still outstanding is the ability for a teacher to pin their own video stream, or the video of another, for all meeting participants. Currently, users can pin a participant’s video to highlight it for themselves,…
How to enable Large Gallery view and Together Mode in Microsoft Teams
Two new mode video meeting modes plus a completely new video meeting experience have started to roll over for schools using Microsoft Teams. In this guide we’ll show you how to enable them ahead of time so you can get familiar with the new features before they’re available to your students. First up is Large…
Microsoft is changing how you record Teams meetings and teachers will need to know
On the 20th of August, Microsoft Teams will stop automatically storing recorded meeting videos in Microsoft Stream. Instead, users will have to manually download videos and upload videos to Stream if they want to keep them any longer than 21 days unless you upgrade them to a Microsoft 365 A3 license. Currently, when anyone records…
