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Configure Teams for Education

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Microsoft Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, meetings, files, and apps together in one place. Because Teams is built on Office 365, schools benefit from integration with their familiar Office apps and services. It delivers enterprise-grade security and compliance that is extensible and customizable to fit the needs of every school.

With Microsoft Teams, your school or institution can create collaborative classrooms, connect in professional learning communities, communicate with school staff, engage with parents and guardians, coordinate research across institutions or more easily facilitate student life efforts like clubs or extracurricular activities – all from a single experience in Office 365 for Education.

Microsoft Teams for Education comes with all the powerful communication and collaboration tools that are available to other Teams users. See Configure Teams for your school.

Unique Teams capabilities for education users

  1. A simplified Teams view that provides a simpler way to navigate and reduces visual distractions.

  2. OneNote Class Notebooks are built into every class team, allowing educators to organize interactive lessons and deliver personalized learning right from Teams.

  3. End-to-end assignment management in Teams enables educators to move quickly and effortlessly from creation and distribution to grading and feedback.

  4. Class home pages for your class teams allow educators to post announcements, pin class resources, show upcoming assignments and recently edited files, and more from a class's home page in Teams.

    1. Currently, Home page is automatically placed in the Teams left rail menu, but IT admins can choose to block or allow Home page in the Teams Admin Center.

  5. School and Parent Connection provides access to several valuable features aimed at keeping parents and guardians informed about their child’s academic progress.

    1. School Connection empowers parents and guardians to stay informed about their child’s assignments, grades, and insights with no extra work required from educators. For more information, see Set up School Connection.
    2. Parents app in Teams for Education helps educators securely connect with parents and guardians using Teams chat and meetings. For more information, see Admin setup of Parents app in Teams for Education.

Assignments and weekly guardian e-mail digest

One of the features related to Assignments is the weekly guardian e-mail digest which are weekly emails sent to students' parents or guardians. The emails contain information about assignments from the previous week and for the upcoming week, and will be sent over the weekend.

See Assignment in Teams to find out how to enable this feature and learn about other features related to Assignments in Teams admin center.

Find more information on Teams for Education here.

Find more information on School Data Sync (SDS) here.

Next steps

Once you have configured Teams for Education and Assignments settings, you're ready to deploy Office 365.