We acknowledge that lecturers usually search for new and efficient methods to interact their college students and assist their studying targets. That is why we’re consistently working to enhance Microsoft Schooling options, options, and coaching, so you may have entry to highly effective classroom instruments for educating.  

To assist streamline your seek for new and efficient instruments, we’ve rounded up among the newest updates and experiences from Microsoft Schooling that can enable you improve your college students’ studying expertise, collaborate and talk together with your class, and create extra content material and curriculum to your classes. We’re additionally highlighting reside and on-demand occasions you may be part of together with your college students, and webinars {and professional} growth alternatives that can assist you keep forward. Let’s dive in and see what’s new in Microsoft Schooling.  

1. Studying Coach is now obtainable in any browser 

Microsoft Studying Coach gives customized, partaking, constant, and impartial studying fluency follow by permitting learners to create distinctive AI-generated tales by selecting characters and settings from a curated assortment of choices. Studying Coach was already offering learners with customized studying follow, prompt suggestions about pronunciation and fluency, whereas additionally giving insights again to educators. Now it’s obtainable free of charge as a public preview internet app and a Home windows software to make use of within the classroom or at dwelling with a Microsoft account.  

Get began with Studying Coach on-line, in any browser or obtain the Home windows app. Study extra about Studying Coach and take a look at the guides on our Studying Accelerators web page.

Dynamically created tales in Studying Coach adapt to studying stage and particular person challenges of every scholar.  

2. Microsoft Copilot expansions for training audiences

In December we had been thrilled to announce a number of Microsoft Copilot expansions for training audiences. Copilot with business knowledge safety is now obtainable to all school and better training college students who’re 18+, together with customers of our free affords. And on January 1, 2024, training school and workers turned eligible to buy Copilot for Microsoft 365. We additionally shared further updates together with eligibility for Workplace 365 A3 and A5 school clients and eliminated the 300-seat buy minimal to empower organizations of all sizes. 

Go to copilot.microsoft.com and discover what you are able to do with Copilot, your AI assistant for training.  

3. Loop availability for training clients

Microsoft Loop is a versatile, AI-powered collaboration app that may enable you suppose, plan, and create collectively. We’re excited to share that Loop can be included in Microsoft 365 A3 and A5 plans, together with Scholar Use Profit in early March 2024. Clients with Workplace 365 A1 can proceed creating workspaces and pages by way of June 30, 2024, and can be capable of entry them afterwards.  

Strive Loop right this moment and watch Microsoft Loop – suppose, plan and create collectively like by no means earlier than to be taught extra. 

4. New AI literacy coaching for educators and college students 

As extra thrilling AI options are developed, we’ll proceed to assist constructing AI literacy in parallel. We’ve launched the AI for Educators Studying Path on Microsoft Study, made up of three modules to assist educators find out about and profit from AI. It begins with empowering educators to discover the potential of AI, continues into how you can improve educating and studying with Copilot, and finishes with our latest addition: Equip and assist learners with AI instruments from Microsoft.  

Educators can then leverage the AI Classroom Toolkit to assist educate and assist college students in utilizing generative AI safely. It’s a artistic useful resource that blends narrative tales with tutorial info to create immersive and efficient studying experiences for educators and their college students.  

Take a look at the AI for Educators Studying Path on Microsoft Study and discover the AI Classroom Toolkit to assist educate and assist college students in utilizing generative AI safely. 

5. New options in Microsoft Groups for Schooling 

Now you can check-in with college students utilizing Replicate in Microsoft Groups for Schooling as they full their task. Once you allow Replicate Examine-in on an task, college students can be prompted to share how they really feel after they submit their work. Then, you may assessment your college students’ responses within the Assignments Grading expertise, to watch the progress of a person scholar and the general temper of the category in regards to the task. 

Scholar expertise of a Replicate Examine-in on an task in Groups. 

One other new characteristic that’s obtainable now’s reusing your modules between Class Groups. You may reuse content material comparable to Assignments, Recordsdata, and Hyperlinks from one class to a different with Classwork. That is helpful if you wish to educate the identical class once more, have a number of variations of a category, or share curriculum with one other educator.   

Take a look at What’s New in Microsoft EDU – Bett 2024 Version to be taught extra about all the brand new updates in Microsoft Groups for Schooling.  

6. New experiences and classes from Minecraft Schooling 

Minecraft Schooling and BBC Earth have launched a brand new wondrous world impressed by the most recent landmark sequence from BBC Studios’ Pure Historical past Unit, Planet Earth III. With the Planet Earth III DLC, college students will step into extraordinary realms of the pure world to expertise the struggles and triumphs of survival whereas enjoying as a sequence of unbelievable creatures, together with the nice white shark, the Arctic wolf, the musk ox, and extra. Discover the Planet Earth III DLC to find out about every animal and achieve their perspective on survival! 

In one other new expertise, CyberSafe: Good Sport—the most recent addition to Minecraft’s CyberSafe assortment—gamers assist a bunch of gaming teammates create a code of conduct, follow digital citizenship, and guarantee everybody feels welcome. This game-based studying expertise is designed to show college students the instruments and expertise that put gamers in management. Gamers sort out thrilling challenges, foster kindness and teamwork, and switch the web world into an inclusive playground for all. Play CyberSafe: Good Sport and produce classes in cybersecurity and on-line security into your classroom.  

7. Minecraft and ISTE Stage Up Studying digital occasions 

Dive deeper into the advantages of educating with Minecraft with Stage Up Studying, a digital occasion sequence from Minecraft Schooling and ISTE. By way of a sequence of webinars spotlighting faculty programs around the globe, educators and leaders can be part of a transformational journey into the combination of game-based studying and its affect on scholar outcomes.   

Register free of charge for the entire Stage Up Studying occasions:  

8. Be a part of Flip reside occasions or watch on-demand 

In February in america, educators come collectively to commemorate and pay tribute to the narratives of Black and African American people, honoring the importance of their experiences. Rejoice Black Historical past Month throughout this time and all year long by watching the on-demand Flip occasion Studying from the Previous, Shaping the Future: Discovering Black Historical past by way of Digital Innovation together with your class.  

Then, in March, Girls’s Historical past Month is well known in america, United Kingdom, and Australia. To mark the event, be part of together with your class on March 13, 2024, as Flip celebrates progressive ladies working within the discipline of AI with the reside occasion AI Conversations: Girls Leaders Share Their Tales. Take part within the occasion to discover the questions: What does it take to reach AI? How are you going to make a distinction with AI in your future? Register for the Flip reside occasion right this moment!  

Be a part of AI Conversations: Girls Leaders Share Their Tales, a Flip reside occasion on March 13, 2024. 

Whether or not you need to improve your college students’ studying expertise, uncover new methods to collaborate and talk, or increase your content material and curriculum, Microsoft Schooling has new options and experiences so that you can discover. Glad educating!