Class Teams supporting Remote Students

St Augustine’s College Cairns is one of our schools working with SDS created Microsoft Class Teams. These Microsoft Teams are created and managed with a daily sync between the college’s student administration system and our Office 365 Tenant so that Microsoft Class Teams are created and managed for each timetabled class.

The SDS sync continues to manage the class from the timetable so if students or teachers move between classes their access to the correct Class Team continues.

Microsoft Class Teams provides the class (Teacher and Students) with a discussion section, shared (and Read only) file section, a Class Onenote notebook to distibute pages, an Assignments tool and also the ability to integrate other apps such as Flipgrid, SharePoint Portals, Wakelet and many others.

The other Teams features such as Chat, video meetings, video and audio calls are also able to be initiated by the teachers.

A new Insights tool also provides the Teacher only with a look at when the students are working on documents and how they are engaging in the Class Team Posts section and Assignment progress.

Here’s Cyril, a Year 7 student at St Augustine’s College Cairns engaged in remote learning from his home of Erub Island near the Great Barrier Reef in the Torres Strait.

This looks to be the best desk in the world to me right now!  I chatted with Cyril using Teams Chat today and his feedback on Teams – “it’s working and easy to use”.