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Classroom tools in Teams

Classroom Tools in Teams

Use the classroom tools in Microsoft Teams to support oral reading, math practice, and research skills. Choose a tool based on what you want students to practise and what you want to learn from their work.

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Reading Progress

Assign a passage for students to read aloud and submit as a recording. Listen to their reading, review suggested fluency markings, and use the results to plan follow-up instruction.

Get started

  1. Create an assignment in your Class Team. Under Learning Accelerators, select Reading Progress.
  2. Choose a passage from the sample library or upload a Word or PDF passage.
  3. Review the settings before assigning. Set Require video to No to let students submit audio only. You can also turn on Comprehension to include questions about the passage.
  4. Listen to the submitted recording and check the suggested markings before returning feedback. Use Insights to look for patterns over time.

Reading Coach: Check this setting when you create the assignment. It gives students another opportunity to practise words they found challenging.

SD72 reading passages: Ask the district Literacy team about access to the curated passages in the SD72 Elementary Literacy Team.

Math Progress

Create short math practice assignments and review student responses for patterns. A few questions on a recently taught concept can help you decide what to revisit in the next lesson.

Get started

  1. Create an assignment in your Class Team. Under Learning Accelerators, select Math Progress.
  2. Choose Create your own to write questions that match what you have taught. Use multiple-choice or short-answer questions as appropriate.
  3. Review the questions, answers, and feedback settings before assigning. After students submit their work, look for common errors and use them alongside other classroom evidence to plan your next steps.

 Get started with Math Progress  — Create questions, set up an assignment, and review responses.

Search Coach and Search Progress

Search Coach

Use Search Coach to teach students how to build a search query, narrow their results, and evaluate what they find. For a quick lesson, have students try two queries on the same topic and explain which results were more useful and why.

To set it up, open a channel in your Class Team and select Add a tab (+). Find Search Coach, add it, and preview the experience before introducing it to students.

Search Progress

Search Progress is a related assignment tool. Students collect sources and explain why they chose them, giving you a view of their research process. If it is available and approved for your class, look for it under Learning Accelerators when creating an assignment.

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