Microsoft Classroom is your homepage for managing all of your classes. Organize multiple class sections, create and grade assignments, collaborate with other teachers in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), and provide feedback to students.

What can be done with Microsoft Classroom?

Classes & Assignments in a snap

Microsoft Classroom has a OneNote Class Notebook built into every class, allowing teachers to create assignments with due dates, complete with Outlook calendar events and reminders. School Data Sync saves teachers time by automatically creating groups and enabling single sign on to apps in Office 365.

Engage students in new ways

Let your students learn in more ways . You can help them to express their inner creativity, and make learning more effective and engaging with new tools like Sway for interactive class materials or dynamic presentations. New Learning Tools help students improve their reading and writing skills across a broad range of unique student abilities and learning styles.

Better Collaboration

With OneNote Class Notebook, students can show their creativity and collaborate with handwritten notes, sketches, typing, photos, videos, voice, and links. Teachers can provide personalized individual feedback along the way. Students can collaborate on assignments and co-author documents in Office Online, Office desktop, or Office mobile. Microsoft Forms is now available in preview for teachers to easily and quickly create basic surveys, quizzes, questionnaires, registrations and more.

Learn how to add Microsoft Classroom Preview in your Office 365 Education subscription here.

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Here are some barriers to engagement with PLCs today that Office 365 Groups is addressing:

• Teachers can be isolated, time is severely limited and collaboration is difficult.
• Professional collaboration tools are disconnected and don’t always support meaningful, sustained collaboration.
• A challenge for many PLCs is extending the work and relationships in the times and spaces between physically coming together.
• It can be difficult for new teachers to ramp up.
  Information is often stored in personal spaces as opposed to one common place that can benefit others.
• New members need to better understand the journey, story, exploration and history of a PLC, its activities and areas of inquiry.

The new Office 365 PLC groups include one place to collaborate effectively in a community of practice. Each group comes with a:

• Inbox for group email communication, including Connector for connecting your group to Twitter and following topics or Twitter handles that interest your PLC group.
• Calendar for scheduling group events.
• Document library for storing and working on group files and folders.
• OneNote notebook for taking project and meeting notes.
• Planner for organizing and assigning tasks and getting updates on project progress.

You can know more about PLC in the Microsoft announcement blog.

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