Microsoft Teams is a digital platform that supports collaboration and communication between educators and students. Teams enables the creation of virtual learning spaces where participants can share materials, communicate via chat and video, and conduct online teaching sessions. Educators can structure content in channels, integrate assignments, and use file sharing to support the learning process.
Teams can be used to conduct live teaching sessions with screen sharing, recording, and active participation through, for example, polls and hand raising. The platform also supports group-based work, allowing students to collaborate in dedicated group rooms and use collaborative tools such as shared documents and whiteboards.
Conducting online teaching and supervision using video, audio, and screen sharing.
Structured communication with students via chat, posts, and channel organization.
Creating group spaces for student collaboration – both synchronous and asynchronous.
Integration with tools like OneDrive, Word, PowerPoint, and Whiteboard for collaborative work.
ACCESS FOR STUDENTS | All students get access to Office 365 when they are admitted to AU. They can access all Office apps at https://m365.cloud.microsoft/?auth=2&home=1. |
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ACCESS FOR INSTRUCTORS | All AU staff have access to Office 365 via https://m365.cloud.microsoft/?auth=2&home=1. Many of the applications are also pre-installed on your AU computer. |
A rubric is a guide to help students in their feedback. It gives the instructor opportunity to ensure academic and qualified feedback. The extent of this rubric is up to the instructor. The rubric is used when students give feedback on others' assignments by noting their feedback in the rubric as a response to the criteria or questions posed by the instructor in the rubric. Read more about rubrics here.
Students can receive feedback in different ways in FeedbackFruits: You can facilitate peer feedback (where the students give each other feedback), you or other teachers on the team can give feedback, or students can give themselves feedback. One feedback activity does not exclude another, and the activities can be linked together.
The feedback can either be written or in video format by filling in the rubric, as general comments or in-line text corrections in the student's text if the task response is an editable link, for example, Word Online.
