Microsoft Announces New Features for Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams for Education

Back in May, Microsoft announced Reading progress in Microsoft Teams helped students build fluency through independent reading practice, educator assessments, and educator insights. Based on user feedback, Microsoft has announced the following new updates to Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams.

• The ability to return a dashboard (like an educator’s view) to students. With consideration of the diverse needs in any classroom, options will be available to return the entire paragraph with words per minute, percentage data and all markers, or to keep for a simple view, for younger or more sensitive students. From the Teacher Evaluation experience, Educators can choose to apply Full or Simplified reporting for the entire class or apply changes to specific students. By default, Full report be activated.
• When a student receives a read passage in return, in addition to viewing the video, highlighted passage, and data, the student will be able to select any word and choose Jump to from to see and listen to their readings at that time.
• By choosing any word and choosing Hear from, students can hear the correct pronunciation of the word when reading our neural text-to-speech Read Aloud feature.
• Adds the ability to select files (Word or PDF) from your existing Teams, OneDrive, and later this year, your Class Notebooks.
• Reading Progression now offers several time periods that educators can choose to help standardize data or conduct more formal assessments. This Limited time The update is rolling out globally now.
• Ability to edit assignments in draft view after a read passage is attached.
• New keyboard shortcuts include:
  • If focus on a word and you press Space bar, the video goes to the selected word and starts playing the video. Hit Space bar will again pause the video.
  • When you have selected a word in the passage, Control +> go to next error to the right of current focus and automatically switch video then play video
  • NS left arrow navigation key comes from immediately on the left
  • Press down arrow while any selected word opens dropdown menu, error types menu
  • When the drop-down menu opens, pressing down will navigate to your desired error type
  • Selection Into the to flag an error, this will also close the drop-down menu
  • To close the drop-down without selecting an error, tap upward arrow
  • If focus is selected in the paragraph, Home will focus on the first word of the passage and End focus on the last word of the passage
  • NS NSarrow can key will take you to the word immediately on the right.

The source: Microsoft