It’s been a long time coming but finally teachers can prevent students unmuting themselves in Microsoft Teams meetings. Until now you could prevent students muting and unmuting each other, but it relied on class disipline in order to prevent students unmuting themselves and causing a disruption in online lessons. For the first time, teachers can […]
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How to spotlight students & demonstrations in Microsoft Teams meetings
Spotlight in Microsoft Teams allows teachers to force a presenter, demonstration, or presentation to be made full-screen for all students. This means that teachers can highlight exactly what they want students to be focused on and prevent distractions in lessons. How to make a presenter full screen for all in Teams In the participants list […]
How to create a school SharePoint landing page in Microsoft Teams
If your school has been using Microsoft 365 for a while there’s a good chance that you’ve already got a lot of pages and files stored in SharePoint. Until now there hasn’t been an easy way to present everyone using Microsoft Teams in your school with a consistent landing page. Microsoft has solved this problem […]
First look at breakout rooms for Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams breakout rooms are almost here! The feature was announced several months ago, but we’ve finally got our first look at officially supported breakout rooms in Team as well as a release date of October 2020. Until now teachers have had to work out their own way to create breakout rooms in their online […]
How to add SharePoint files to Microsoft Teams
If you’ve been using Microsoft 365 for while you probably already have documents and teaching resources stored in SharePoint that you want to make available in Microsoft Teams. One way to way do this is to copy them across to Teams, but if you have a lot of documents that can be difficult and time […]