Quick Guides
This suite of “Quick Guides” created by Scottish Teacher, Heather Aird are a game-changer for educators seeking to harness the power of Microsoft Education products in their classrooms. Through vibrant colours, simplicity, and comprehensive coverage of various tools, these guides empower teachers to embrace technology confidently.
READING COACH
Reading Coach provides students with personalized and independent practice of words that Reading Progress identifies a student has mispronounced.
READING PROGRESS
Reading Progress is a free tool built into Microsoft Teams designed to support and track reading fluency in your class.
IMMERSIVE READER
Immersive Reader can improve reading comprehension using the Read Aloud function and grammar options to adjustable reading and text preferences.
SPEECH TO TEXT (DICTATE)
Dictation lets you use speech-to-text to author content in Office with a microphone and reliable internet connection.
SPEAKER COACH
Speaker coach evaluates your pacing, pitch, your use of filler words, informal speech, euphemisms, and culturally sensitive terms.
SPEAKER PROGRESS
With Speaker Progress, educators can easily create assignments for students to practice presenting and get real-time tailored coaching.
OFFICE LENS
Office Lens is an app by Microsoft that captures notes and information from whiteboards, menus, signs, handwritten memos, or anything with a lot of text.
MATH SOLVER
Math Solver helps you solve any mathematical problem and shows you step-by-step solutions.
TRANSLATE
Microsoft Translator helps bridge communication gaps and is good for Modern Languages Students to practice speaking fluently.
LIVE CAPTIONS
Microsoft provides live captioning and subtilties, including translated subtitles. Many languages are supported, including English.
EDGE BROWSER
Microsoft Edge provides a comprehensive suite of tools that can unlock your creativity, promote teamwork, and provide a safe experience for education.
FORMS
Microsoft Forms simplifies assessment for educators. Create quizzes, surveys, and polls, track student progress, and collect feedback.
STREAM
Microsoft Stream is a video management service that lets you organize, create, store, share, and view videos.
SEARCH PROGRESS
Students receive real-time search query coaching, reliability ratings, and interactive filtering support that helps them learn to discern fact from fiction on the web.
CLASS NOTEBOOK
OneNote Class Notebook is a digital notebook that allows teachers to organize and manage their lesson plans, course content, and student work in one place.
ONENOTE DESKTOP
OneNote desktop lets you capture and embed web content, audio, and video to create interactive lessons for students.
CLASSWORK
Classwork is a one-stop shop to create and organize class resources, including Assignments, OneNote Class Notebook pages, web links, files, and Teams channels.
WORD NEW FEATURES
Microsoft Word helps educators create, edit and share documents with their students.
POWERPOINT FEATURES
Create powerful lesson plans and presentations with media, charts, design help, and more.
EDITOR
Microsoft Editor can help students improve their writing skills and communicate more effectively.
REFLECT
Use emojis and illustrated representations of emotion words to share your personal experience with teachers.
LOOP
Microsoft Loop is a co-creation app that lets you and your team work together across your apps and devices using components, pages, and workspaces.
TO DO
Microsoft To Do is a cloud-based app for task management. You can use it as a daily planner or professional task manager.
AI in TEAMS
With Microsoft Teams for Education you can use AI tools to create personalized and interactive learning experiences.
READING INSIGHTS
Check on your students reading fluency with at-a-glance views for accuracy rate, most challenging words, and words per minute data.
WELLBEING INSIGHTS
Use Education Insights to get at-a-glance views on your class’s emotional state and wellbeing.
