Connect, collaborate, and save time with Microsoft Teams

6 minutes

Microsoft Teams is a digital hub for educators and school leaders. It brings conversations, content, and apps together in one place. Teams streamlines workflow for administrators and helps educators create vibrant, personalized learning environments.

With Teams, educators can:

Create collaborative learning environments
Personalize learning with assignments
Connect with colleagues in professional learning communities (PLCs)
Streamline staff communication

Teams supports educator-to-educator collaboration and class collaboration and communication. In short, Teams is the one tool that helps with educators' administrative and classroom tasks. Teams saves educators time while teaching learners future-ready skills.

Teams for educators and learners

Microsoft class teams provide educators with the most efficient class workflow yet.

In Teams, educators can:

Converse with learners
Survey learners’ wellbeing with Reflect
Organize and create class content in Classwork
Share files and websites
Create a OneNote Class Notebook
Distribute and grade assignments

Through Teams, learners are free to use the Microsoft tools they're most familiar with—Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Excel—and access websites and other frequently used third-party apps. Built-in OneNote Class Notebooks and end-to-end assignment management help educators:

Organize interactive lessons
Deliver personalized learning
Provide effective and timely feedback

With one location for everything, class teams save time and simplify everyday logistics so educators can focus on what’s most important—improving learner outcomes.

Teams for staff and PLCs

Staff and PLC teams provide the perfect location to work with colleagues on:

Projects
Curriculum adoptions
School-wide initiatives

School administrators can communicate and collaborate with their entire staff in one location and easily share:

Policies and procedures
Forms
Instructions for various tasks and responsibilities
School websites
And more

With the built-in OneNote Staff Notebook, administrators can provide private feedback regarding class observations and establish personalized professional development plans for every faculty member.

Online Teams meetings

Teams also supports online meetings with screen sharing and whiteboard annotation. Meetings can be recorded, transcribed in Stream, and saved to SharePoint in Microsoft 365. Whether colleagues are down the hall or in another building across town, staff and PLC teams support collaboration among educators.

Teams for extracurricular activities

Educators and learners can also use Teams to connect and collaborate on sports, clubs, service opportunities, and other common interests. The flexibility of the “Other” team template helps educators and learners to design a team to fit their needs.

Teams prepares learners for the workplace