9 Awesome Teams Updates for IT Admins and Back to School Deployment

The whole world is still struggling to control the outbreak of the contagious Coronavirus bringing everything to a standstill. Deserted roads, empty buildings and immobile humans at their homes are the effects of this catastrophic event to the world. People are not aware of how to react to this surreal period as it has forced everything to a full stop. Education, business sectors, transportation, and other major revenue-generating fields are temporarily shut down until further notice. The economy of every country is dropping low in the lockdown period, making it even harder for people to survive in this crisis.

The advancements of technology have resulted in offering alternative methods to host many business/activity through online platforms and other applications. Who would have thought that technology could play an important role in saving the world from total devastation! The advanced features of many applications have proved successful in running business and education in the best possible ways. The Education sector has benefitted the most as the temporary closure of educational institutions will not be opened until the situation is under control. The online classes and platforms are ensuring a secure future for the students and opening new avenues to the digital education system.

Microsoft has been offering various applications and platforms to educational institutions for remote learning. Microsoft 365 A1 for Education is available freely online for every educational institution, cutting costs during the critical period. Microsoft Teams is the popularly used application providing a unified platform to students and teachers for interactive learning. It provides face-to-face video-conference, enabling students to get the feel of the traditional classroom environment. Microsoft education provides 360-degree IT solutions to educational institutes for creating an engaging and entertaining classroom environment.

9 Awesome Teams updates for IT Admin who are gearing up for the Back to School deployment season are as follows:

1.     The School Data Sync (SDS) feature automatically creates both Microsoft Office 365 Group and Class Team for easier syncing of student’s profiles.

2.     The new Educator-Led Team Creation feature has allowed educators to create the necessary classes for students and authorizes Admins to create groups for each class for easy conversion.

3.     Microsoft Teams has published the guidelines for creating a Class team for the Back to School deployment season practices.

4.     The SDS feature has a new file format (CSV) designed for both K12 and Higher Education including a substantial data scheme update and other cool features:

·        The new update requires only 4 CSV files for knowing the details of every role, grade and associations of the organization.

·        It has allotted 28 Primary User Roles for both K12 and Higher Education (Ranging from a student, researcher to teacher and administrator)

·        The Grade system is applicable for both students and educators under the new update.

5.     The People and Group Memberships viewer feature has allowed admins to search and find all the objects and attributes synced by SDS in the organization.

6.     The MS Graph API feature authorizes the educators to unlock the Class Teams before students can enter and use them. It helps in managing and monitoring the active Class Teams by the Admins to assist the educators.

7.     The syncing of several API objects and classrooms is mitigating errors in the user’s enrollment and other information.

8.     The SDS feature is accelerated to accommodate large Ministries, Department of Education and other institutes under one common platform. The Team Sync feature will process up to 75K Teams/ day at a 2x speed than normal per profile.

9.     The Grade Sync connector feature helps get the confirmed grades from Teams works and other API endpoints at a direct method.

The Back to School deployment season demands all the above features for easier work and simpler calculations. Inexperienced teachers are also benefitted by Microsoft Teams with the simple learning process of the platform. Microsoft Office 365 Solutions are also combined with Teams in order to provide the best experience for learning. The sync of Office 365 with Teams ensures more file sharing from various secure applications, giving an engaging and interesting educational experience. The free tools provided by Microsoft for education are:

·        Microsoft Outlook

·        Microsoft Word

·        Microsoft Excel

·        Microsoft PowerPoint

·        Microsoft OneNote

·        Microsoft Teams

·        Microsoft Publisher

·        Microsoft Access

These applications have a suite of skills and tools that can prepare students for their futures today. The cloud-based applications and services have created a modern classroom with interactive sessions, professional learning communities, private communications with teachers and much more. The cloud-based applications provide access anytime, anywhere and from any device around the world, giving teachers and students to sit at the comfort of their homes and attend online classes.

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