Microsoft announced this morning new Teams for Education features to make the hybrid learning experience more engaging. As studies have pointed out that the ongoing pandemic has negatively affected student’s reading ability, Microsoft is adding a free Reading Progress feature ... Read more
Microsoft is launching the new Classroom Pen 2 for education customers next week on April 27. The new pen was announced back in January alongside new Windows 10 PCs for the Education market, and at $19.99 per pen it will ... Read more
The Microsoft Store is planning a series of free workshops starting next week to celebrate Women’s History Month. For students grade 3-12, Microsoft will have various virtual events featuring inspiring personalities such as Mikaila Ulmer, a young entrepreneur that signed ... Read more
The Microsoft Store has announced a free virtual event for educators on March 4. Titled “For You, By You: A How-to Event Series for Educators to Supercharge Classroom Engagement," the 90-minute event should provide useful resources for teachers in what ... Read more
As the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to the closure of many public places across the world, Microsoft is inviting students to participate in a series of virtual tours of 13 national museums and cultural institutions including The GRAMMY Museum and Freedom Rides Museum.
Microsoft has just announced some important product updates ahead of the BettFest virtual education conference starting tomorrow, with new affordable PCs starting at $185 and a $19.99 Microsoft Classroom Pen 2 with a longer enclosure.
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With more and more employees and educators using Microsoft Teams for virtual meetings, the company announced this morning several new features that should help make Teams video conferencing more engaging than before.
The 7x7 grid view for Microsoft Teams meetings will be available in preview this month ahead of general availability in the Fall.
Microsoft has announced a free limited-time virtual graduation plan for schools, allowing students to celebrate their graduation on Microsoft Teams.
The platform that is usually associated with video gaming communities today released a new blog post, showing how teachers can use Discord as a virtual classroom.
The company is planning on introducing new Windows 10 devices for the education market and will be bringing new education-related features to OneNote and PowerPoint.
The Microsoft K-12 Education Transformation Framework provides a holistic framework to facilitate a comprehensive digital transformation of schools.
Microsoft Teams for Education is getting an updated Assignments experience ahead of the back to school season.
Flipgrid, the video-based social learning platform that Microsoft acquired back in June is getting a major update today.
Microsoft annouced today that it's making its Immersive Reader tool is now available as an Azure Cognitive Service, and the company is also allow G Suite for Education users to sign in to Office 365 for free with their Google accounts.
Teams for Education is celebrating its second anniversary with a few new education-related additions that include a simplified UI, class notebook import support, live captions and more.
It's coming up to graduation time, which means many students will soon lose access to their school-provided Office 365 accounts. If you're currently using Office 365 at your school, you should consider how you'll offload your files to a personal ... Read more
Microsoft announced today the acquisition of DataSense, a data management platform developed by BrightBytes, an education data analytics company based in San Francisco.
After launching in preview a couple of weeks ago, Microsoft Whiteboard for Education is now available worldwide on Windows 10 and iOS, allowing teachers and students to collaborate on a freeform digital canvas.
Microsoft announced several new education features for Microsoft Teams as well as new programs to empower inclusive learning at the Bett conference this morning.