Microsoft is delivering a huge update to one of the most underused features in Microsoft Teams to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Day, and teachers will now be able to annotate their lessons in new colors using the Whiteboard app in Teams. Collectively, the software giant announced that more than thirty-five new features designed to make remote learning easier for students and teachers will be coming to Teams from May through August. However, in a recent tweet, Microsoft Whiteboard for Teams and Surface Product Manager Ian Mikutel discovered that fifteen new ink colors and 6 thickness settings, a new highlighter tool with fifteen colors, and ten new colors of Sticky Appreciate they are now free on Microsoft Whiteboard. . While teachers can use Whiteboard on the company's video conferencing software, it's also available as a web app and on Windows, Android, and iOS.
(Image credit: Microsoft)
Education teams
Beginning in August, teachers will be able to add images, other document content, forms, and even stickers to the Microsoft Whiteboard web service client and the Whiteboard Teams app. Drawing students' attention to particular content during video calls will also be easier for teachers, as Teams also has a new laser pointer feature. Whiteboard cooperation is gaining momentum and live cursor identities will let teachers see where students are and who is actively participating in a lesson. These live cursor identities can even help teachers identify students who might need extra help or clarification on the assignment at hand. Teaching large groups at the same time is now possible as well, as Microsoft activates its large gallery with up to XNUMX people and the perfect Together mode for students learning remotely through Teams in your browser. Muddy, tailored backgrounds and live reactions are coming to Teams for Chrome and Microsoft Edge at the end of August, in time for the new school year. Finally, if a mentee misses a lesson, she can easily recover any work she missed, as automatic transcriptions and closed captioning of video recordings are also coming to Teams in August. Teachers will still be able to upload captions or subtitles to their video store on OneDrive and SharePoint, while on-demand captions will be available for recorded assemblies. Since working from home isn't going away anytime soon, so will distance learning, but with the new features for Teams announced by Microsoft, teachers are going to have an easier time reaching their students, even if they're doing it on their own. virtual.