Microsoft Teams chat is great for communicating with students and teachers, but it can also be abused. So, if you need to sanction a student or completely remove the chat feature from them, here’s how you do it. Something to be aware of when banning students from chat No school wants students to use their […]
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How to search student chat conversations in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams has lots of great features which allow teachers and students to communicate, but what happens if something goes wrong? As much as we would like to hope our students are perfect angels, bullying and other inappropriate activity is inevitable. If it happens in the playground, it’s going to happen online as well. So […]
Four Huge Microsoft Teams Edu Updates Coming Soon
Microsoft has announced a number of big updates to Microsoft Teams to address a number of issues raised recently by schools. These include the ability for teachers to view more students on screen at once during video meetings — ala Zoom — and an option for admins to set the default role to attendee when […]
10 Tips to Support Students with Slow Internet in Online Lessons
We’d like to imagine that in these times of Netflix, Fortnite, and smartphones, that all student have a solid broadband connection at home. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case, particularly in rural areas, so that we don’t let those students without speedy connections and laptops with 20″ screens to fall between the cracks. When running […]
Microsoft hurriedly releases it’s own version of Zoom
Clearly concerned about the sudden explosion of Zoom, Microsoft has unexpectedly released it’s own equivalent of the popular video conferencing app, and it’s called Skype Meet Now. While Microsoft Teams is great for video conferencing and setting up meetings and Teams, it’s not the easiest app to get users connected to. Despite the safeguarding issues […]
