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\nBy Abby Schilbach<\/span> Posted on
\nJanuary 5, 2021 at 8:00 am<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Happy 2021! We\u2019re excited to share the latest updates in December to the Teams experience:<\/p>\n

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  1. See the latest features available in Teams, including Breakout Rooms<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Apply policies with the Microsoft Teams for Education policy wizard, available on January 7<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Allow school leaders, substitutes, and other approved individuals to join a class with the Classroom Drop-in app<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Join Public preview to get early access to some of the latest Teams features<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Use Moodle and Teams together with the mConnect app<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Sign up for the live Microsoft Teams for Education event to get ready and learn the best practices for hybrid learning<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Let\u2019s dive in!<\/p>\n

    1) See the latest features available in Teams, including Breakout Rooms<\/strong>
    Virtual Breakout Rooms<\/strong>
    As the meeting organizer, you can divide your online class into smaller groups to facilitate discussions, brainstorming, and more. A breakout room can be created in a Teams meeting or a Teams channel meeting, giving you greater flexibility depending on how you and your class meet. As the organizer you can easily jump in between breakout rooms, deliver announcements to all breakout rooms at once, and bring everyone back to the main meeting at any time. Any files from the breakout rooms can be shared in the main meeting and are available afterwards in the meeting chat.<\/p>\n

    If you\u2019re looking for helpful resources to learn more and get started:<\/p>\n

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    1. Check out the main breakout rooms blog<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Get the breakout rooms quick start guide for educators<\/a> (PDF)<\/li>\n
    3. Watch the Tips from the Team breakout rooms video<\/a><\/li>\n
    4. Visit the breakout rooms support page to learn more<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      New languages supported for real-time translation in live events<\/strong>
      Translate Japanese, Korean, French, French-Canadian, Spanish, Spanish-Mexican, Traditional Chinese, Swedish, Dutch, Italian, Hindi-Indian, Portuguese-Brazilian, and Russian into up to 50 different languages.       Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n

      Check out all the latest features available in Teams here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

      2) Apply policies with the Microsoft Teams for Education policy wizard, available on January 7<\/strong>
      With remote and hybrid learning on online platforms, it\u2019s more important than ever to help keep your school community safe. With the new       Microsoft Teams for Education policy wizard<\/a>, available school IT admins can now easily apply education tailored policies for a safe learning environment.<\/p>\n

      The policy wizard allows the IT admin to quickly and easily apply the most relevant set of policies for students at a global (Org-wide default) level and apply a custom policy set to a group of educators and staff tailored to their needs. Expected availability, along with more details, will be available on January 7th.<\/p>\n

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      3) Allow school leaders, substitutes, and other approved individuals to join a class with the Classroom Drop-in app<\/strong>
      Often times school leaders, substitute instructors, evaluators, TAs, and more individuals need to check in on or become a temporary teacher for a class. With the new Classroom Drop-in<\/strong> app template for Microsoft Teams, school leaders can set up \u201cdrop ins\u201d to add a user to a Team without the need to bother IT or the instructor. The dropped in user can then check in on conversation, assignments, grades, class meetings and more!<\/p>\n

      IT administrators can setup and install the Classroom Drop-in app from GitHub<\/a> and then make it available to leaders within their organization. Once installed and configured, leaders can begin setting up drop-ins right away.<\/p>\n

      To learn more, join us for a webinar on January 12 at 8am PST. Sign up at https:\/\/aka.ms\/DropInWebinar<\/a><\/p>\n

      \"Install<\/span><\/p>\n

      \"InstallInstall and use the Classroom Drop-in app to allow school leaders, substitute instructors, evaluators, TAs, to check in on or become a temporary teacher for a class<\/span> <\/p>\n

      4) Join Public Preview to get early access to the latest Teams features<\/strong>
      Microsoft Teams Public Preview is now available to help you and your school get early access to the latest Teams features. After an IT Admin enabled policy via a policy setting, individuals in the school can set your Teams client to switch on the public preview mode and try Together mode and Large Gallery (7\u00d77) on the web and live reactions in Teams meetings.       Watch how to join in this quick tip video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

      5) Use Moodle and Teams together with the mConnect app<\/strong>
      Now with the mConnect app by Skooler, you can bring all the richness of Moodle inside Teams to organize your courses and use Teams to learn and work together. The mConnect app allows you to:<\/p>\n