Microsoft is rolling out as a standalone app, which will expand its tools for educators in Microsoft Teams. The new app will be part of a suite of reading progress designed to help students improve their reading and writing skills in the classroom and at home. The tool will use artificial intelligence to provide users with personalized feedback on how they’re doing as well as specific suggestions on how to improve things like pronunciation. It will be free for any user who has a .
With extended use, the AI tool will flag specific words that the reader repeatedly mispronounces or misunderstands during reading sessions. To keep students engaged, the program will also ask the reader to choose prompts that can change the story as they progress.
Microsoft says teachers can integrate its software into classrooms across learning platforms starting but the tool is available to educators this month for preview. Teachers will be able to track how students feel about assignments. This type of feedback may help the teacher determine which assignments students feel most excited about and which lessons may not be effective. In addition to tracking student performance, new features of Microsoft’s Teams for Education suite will help teachers create content for lessons, such as clips and assignments that students can interact with.
Microsoft also introduced new features for Teams for Education, which is designed to personalize content for digital learning platforms. The Assignment tool will use AI to emphasize specific messages in assignment instructions, based on the teacher’s specific goals for that lesson. The assignment tool will use artificial intelligence to simplify the process of creating rubrics. The teacher can design the outline based on grade level, rating scale, or other factors.
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