From ComputerWorld: Microsoft is ramping up efforts to appeal to the education market, with updates to its Teams group messaging app that supports collaboration between students, teachers and staff members.
Among the features announced at the Bett 2019 education technology conference in London this week: integration with student information systems and the ability for teachers to grade school work on mobile devices. Microsoft also unveiled several low-budget Windows 10-based laptops and two-in-ones to take on Google Chromebooks, which have proved popular in schools.
Two months after the launch of Teams in 2017, Microsoft began to tailor the collaboration app for use in the education sector, making it available as part of Office 365 Education subscriptions.
For education, Microsoft sees three core scenarios for collaboration in Teams.
One is the interaction between teachers and students, who can use Teams to share course materials, as well as distribute, collect and grade assignments. Another is between teachers staff members, such as a school district head communicating with multiple school principles.
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