TOPIC 1: Getting started with Microsoft Teams

Online learning aims to be a learning community with a robust educational ecosystem, while
Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT)’s aims to provide temporary access to instruction that is
available during an emergency or crisis.  

Synchronous learning refers to interaction or learning that happens together in real time, while
Asynchronous Learning refers to interactions don’t have to happen at the same time.  

In this Microsoft Teams interface, you can meet, chat, call, and collaborate with everyone you
work with.

The navigation bar is where you’ll see notifications about your recent activity, chats, teams,
meetings, files, and apps.

A team is a collection of people, content, and tools based on a specific project or group.

Join an existing team with a code given by the team owner. Or create your own team by clicking
Create Team.

Team Types:

1. Class Team: for teachers and students to collaborate on group projects, assignments,
and more
2. Professional Learning Community (PLC): for educators in a working group (academic
or subject department, grade level department), or any group working on a shared goal
3. Staff Team: for staff leaders and staff members to collaborate on school administration
and development
4. Other Team: for students and school employees to collaborate in interest groups and
clubs

Choose a team type (Class, Staff, Professional Learning Community (PLC), or Others), then
type the name and description of your Team. Or create a team using an existing team as a
template.

Enter your students', co-teachers' or members' names or email addresses, then click Add. Click
Close when you're done adding members to your team.

To access the team’s settings, click the Three Dots or More Options next to the team name.

Channels can be created for group work, topics, units, and more to organize all the files,
conversations, and apps for a topic in one place.
Every team comes with a General channel. In a Class Team, the General channel contains the
Posts, Files, Class Notebook, Assignments, and Grades tab. You can add a tab to any channel by
clicking the plus sign.

TOPIC 2: Student and Teacher Engagement in Microsoft Teams

Conversation Tab: This is a feature where we can chat with our students, make announcements,
and share files with our class without any hassle!

Sending Messages: Use this to communicate with your students. You can use emojies, GIFs, and
even stickers.

Posting an announcement: Post an announcement to your students using the post

announcement feature in your conversation tab

Attaching files: You can directly share files to your students without any hassle

Immersive reader: A tool that you can utilize to help your students read their reading materials
better.
 TOPIC 3:Teaching Strategies using Microsoft Teams

File Storage

1. You can link your OneDrive or other file storage accounts (if allowed by your Teams
admin) in MS Teams.
2. Each channel has its own files tab for you to upload and share files with your class.

Class Notebook

3. A Class Notebook has a default setting of Collaboration space, Content library and a
note page for each student.
4. Collaboration space is a space where everyone in your class can share, organize, and
collaborate.
5. Content library is a read-only space where teachers can share handouts with students
6. A student notebook is a private space between a student and a teacher. The teacher
could view all the student notebooks whereas a student can only view his or her own
notebook.
7. You can make the notebook engaging and interactive by adding elements such as
videos, file attachments, pictures and links.

File collaboration through Word, Excel and PowerPoint

1. You can check and locate the students who have opened the file by looking at their icons
found at the upper-right corner of the window.
2. The conversation button allows you and the students to communicate within the file. Use
@ mention to direct your comment or feedback to a particular student.
3. A record of the conversation can be found in the Posts tab of the channel.

Small Groups via Private Channels

1. Create private channels (breakout rooms) to conduct small group teaching.

2. Teachers can access all private channels while students can only access the private
channel they were added into.
3. In a private channel, students can either "meet now" (start a video call) or discuss
through chats and messages.

Individualized sessions through scheduled calls

1. For record keeping, you could create a channel where your students could request a
one-to-one coaching session.
2. Create a meeting invite by clicking the Calendar icon. An email will be sent to your
student regarding the meeting.
 3. If you included a specific channel in the meeting invite, the details will be posted in the
channel's post box for everybody to see.

Individualized sessions through scheduled calls 

1. For record keeping, you could create a channel where your students could request a
one-to-one coaching session. 
2. Create a meeting invite by clicking the Calendar icon. An email will be sent to your
student regarding the meeting.  
3. If you included a specific channel in the meeting invite, the details will be posted in the
channel's post box for everybody to see. 

Use of Class Insights application 

1. Class Insights will give you data about your student's digital activity, average grade, on-
time assignments, average time for feedback and communication activity.  
2. Digital activity will tell you about students’ posting and reaction to messages, viewing
and editing of files, turning in assignments, meetings attendance.  
3. Communication activity will only reflect the students' activity, not of the teacher, as they
post, reply and react in channel conversations.  

Third-party applications

1. Flipgrid is an application wherein learners or students can share their ideas, stories and
work through creative video outputs.
2. Kahoot is an online interactive game-based platform. Types of games include multiple
choice questions, slides, survey, true or false and open-ended questions.
3. EdPuzzle allows teachers to stream video lessons that could help track student’s
comprehension as they watch it.
4. Wakelet is a tool that allows teachers to take control of the content that they plan to
share with their students.

TOPIC 4: Evaluation through Microsoft Teams

1. To create an assignment, click Create, then click Assignment.

2. Enter the details of your assignment including its title, category, instructions, resources,
points, rubrics, timeline, and name of team or students you want to give the assignment
to.
3. Once done, you can click Discard (to delete), Save (to save as draft) or Schedule (to post
the assignment on specified date).
 1. To create a quiz, click Create, then click create Quiz.
2. Choose an existing quiz from the list. Or create a new quiz by clicking New form.
Microsoft Forms will automatically open.
3. Here, you can click New Form (for survey) or New Quiz (for quiz). Add a title and
questions to your quiz as Microsoft Forms automatically saves your quiz.
4. Once done, close Microsoft Forms to go back to the Assignments tab.
5. Again, click Create, then click Quiz. Enter your quiz details, then click Discard (to delete),
Save (to save as draft) or Schedule (to post the assignment on specified date).

To grade assignments, you can do any of the following: 

o Click the Assignments tab, then click the assignment you want to check. Click the
student’s name to see their submitted work. 
o Click Grades tab to see the assignments ordered by due date. Click a cell to edit
points or open a student's work. 
o Click a student’s name to see his/her grades, work, and status in all assignments.  

You can export the grades of the entire class, of individual students, and of individual
assignments.  

Recommendations:

1. Partner with the students’ parents and/or guardians.

2. Maximize the resources and features of Microsoft Education, particularly Microsoft Teams.

3. Provide support and training for educators and staff.

4. Support students outside the classroom with social and emotional learning.

Resource Links:

 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/distance-learning-with-microsoft-365-
guidance-for-parents-and-guardians-89d514f9-bf5e-4374-a731-a75d38ddd588?ui=en-
us&rs=en-us&ad=us
 https://education.microsoft.com/en-us
 https://educationblog.microsoft.com/en-us/2020/03/making-remote-learning-effective-
and-engaging-with-microsoft-education-resources/
 https://educationblog.microsoft.com/en-us/2020/03/nine-tips-to-make-your-remote-
lesson-a-success/
 https://educationblog.microsoft.com/en-us/2020/05/developing-students-social-and-
emotional-skills-during-remote-learning/
Frequently Asked Questions:

1. How will we address the needs of the students who will have connectivity problems during
synchronous learning?

 Use pre-recorded content instead live class sessions

 Limit video in live class sessions, work offline in the Class Notebook
 Sync files to your computer or mobile device so you can read them offline
 Sync video files to your mobile device so you can watch them offline

2. Can we integrate Microsoft Teams with Learning Management Systems and other learning
platforms?

 You can integrate Microsoft Teams with Moodle, Canvas, Schoology, its Learning,
Blackboard Learn, and other LMS.

Resource Links:

 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-teams-for-schoolwork-when-bandwidth-
is-low-5c5675f7-1b55-471a-9daa-ec1e6df38262?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us
 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/microsoftteams/platform/resources/moodleinstructions
 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/03/24/host-virtual-class-
microsoft-teams/