ACTIVITY

DESCRIPTION

WAYS TO IMPLEMENT

EXAMPLE

Benefits

Chat

Allows participants to type messages and send them to other participants, the facilitator, or the entire class.

· Start one-on-one and group chats by selecting New Chat at the top of your chat list.

· You can also start one-on-one from someone’s profile card

· To loop more people into the conversation, just click Add People.

· Use raise hand features to ask questions

· Use Chats to open the floor for discussion.

· Ask clarifying questions

· Provide debate floor for students to respectably discuss topics.

· Have students to raise had when having a question.

Breakout rooms

Allows for multiple, simultaneous, small group interactions, separate from the main group.

· Create small groups separated from the larger group.

· Create Inquiry-Base Learning

· Assign students to groups and have them review their answers with group members to reach consensus.

· Create a Fishbowl Debate

· Have students to form a small groups to discuss what they’ve learn, while easily providing the teacher visibility of who is meeting with who.

· Getting students into research or work groups to determine the relevant answers / debate.

· Students take quizzes in breakout groups to promote collaboration

Application sharing

Displays to all participants a software application that’s open on the facilitator’s (or the sharer’s) computer.

· Choose the chat control options. You can choose to share your screens, desktops or a window or program to share.

· Interactive PowerPoint Presentation.

· Create game in PowerPoint, allow students to take control and play the game

OneNote

Allows participants to save typed notes for access after the event.

· Select existing notebook or create a new notebook, add a name to the notebook

· Create a platform to take notes

· Use OneNote in private or groups chats

· Give a student the task of taking meeting notes

· Require different students to be note taker for class each session using OneNote

MS Forms

Is a simple, lightweight app that lets you easily create surveys, quizzes, and polls.

· Under Tabs for your team, click Forms

· Create a shared form that your team can edit

· Create Pre-work assignments

· Create knowledge quiz

· Create Polls

· Create anonymous form for employees to provide feedback during/after session.

· Give post quiz

· Give knowledge quiz

· Give 1 question poll (real time result)

· Give Pre-work assignment

· Complete anonymous form for employees to provide feedback during/after session.

Whiteboard

Offers space for brainstorming and group writing or drawing.

· Open the meeting chat and click on Whiteboard tab

· You can access the Whiteboard even before the meeting has started

· Allows people to collaborate by drawing and refining ideas on a board

· Play game (hang-man)

· Use the board as a common resource that everyone connects to.

MS Yammer

Allows participants to participate in the Yammer conversation, right from Teams, or discuss a Yammer conversation in Teams before posting a reply to the wider Yammer group.

· In the Teams channel, select the Yammer tab.

· Select the Yammer group to show on the tab and then click install.

· In the Search box, type the group name or topic you want to include.

· Communicate large organizational announced to the company.

· Deliver companies All Hands Meeting

· Remind employees of Open Enrollment announcement.

MS Stream

Is an Enterprise Video service where people in your organization can upload, view, and share videos securely.

· Select the MS Stream tab within your Teams channel

· Share recordings of classes, meetings, presentations, training sessions, or other videos that aid your team's collaboration.

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· Have students to watch pre-recorded trainings, presentation and session missed

· Give pre-work assignments

· Record lessons for student to review subjects. (Could also allow us to not have to rework classes)

MS Doc

Is the home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT Professionals?

· Use MS Doc Library to house Syllabus, Reference Material and Shared Documents

· Syllabus

· Reference Material

· Shared Documents