Microsoft has put together some resources to help with contingency planning and remote learning that I would like to share with you.

COVID-19 has impacted the lives of people and students around the world. Lily Zheng, the Microsoft 365 Lead in China; has been on the front lines helping schools and businesses work remotely via Teams. If you would like to learn more about Lily’s experience of remote working in China, check out Lily’s letter. Here are examples from how Wellington College international, and Gold Coast School have quickly moved into remote learning environments. I found them both inspiring and informative and I hope we can all benefit from their experience. If you are thinking about similar options and are interested in learning more, I am happy to support you and your staff.

To help make the transition to distance learning, we’ve created resources, training and how to guides that we hope will help support  IT, educators, staff and students as they make this transition. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/remote-learning

Microsoft has put together some resources to help with contingency planning and remote learning that I would like to share with you.

COVID-19 has impacted the lives of people and students around the world. Lily Zheng, the Microsoft 365 Lead in China; has been on the front lines helping schools and businesses work remotely via Teams. If you would like to learn more about Lily’s experience of remote working in China, check out Lily’s letter. Here are examples from how Wellington College international, and Gold Coast School have quickly moved into remote learning environments. I found them both inspiring and informative and I hope we can all benefit from their experience. If you are thinking about similar options and are interested in learning more, I am happy to support you and your staff.

To help make the transition to distance learning, we’ve created resources, training and how to guides that we hope will help support  IT, educators, staff and students as they make this transition. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/remote-learning

If you already have O365 we encourage you to:

• Review our Getting started with Microsoft Teams for Remote Learning documentation

• Attend the upcoming Teams Webinar on remote learning

If you do not have O365 and would like to begin leveraging a remote learning solution:

• Get Office 365 for free: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/education/products/office

• Review the Office 365 Education Set Up Guide as well as the Getting started with Office 365 and Windows 10 Educator Course

Prepare your staff and community with PD and resources on remote learning:

• Sign into the Microsoft Educator Centre and take the course Getting Started with Online Learning with Office 365

• Share Remote Learning Guidance for Parents and Carers and Office 365 for Remote learning for Students with your community

Join a global community looking at remote learning:

• Join the Microsoft Enabling Remote Learning Community, a community for educational institutions around the world looking at remote learning programs with M365 and Teams. Share resources, get your questions answered, and connect with Microsoft engineers about your remote learning needs.

Microsoft cares deeply about the health and safety of our employees, our customers, our partners and communities. By making Teams available to all for free, we hope that we can support public health and safety by making remote work even easier. We appreciate your commitment to reducing the disruption to the lives of students while ensuring the health of our communities. Our thoughts are with all those affected across the world.

• We are encouraging schools to attend/listen on demand to the Teams webinars on Remote Learning.

• We have this blog written by Chris Rothwell, Microsoft UK Director of Education

• Share this blog from Microsoft Teams for Education widely with all your social media accounts