Liam Tung
| August 25, 2021 — 12:06 GMT (13:06 BST)
| Topic: Education
The Reading Progress tool in Microsoft Teams is rolling out globally.
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Microsoft has rolled out Reading Progress, a free education tool for Teams that gives teachers artificial intelligence (AI) estimations of student performance and errors when reading text.
The Teams app aims to help teachers quickly assess students’ fluency at reading through video and audio recordings. It could be a handy online tool for teachers delivering remote education for the first time, as well as for those who provided remote learning before the pandemic.
The app lets teachers upload a single reading fluency passage for the whole class, or provide different passages to suit students at various reading levels. Students record what they read and send it to their teacher for review.
The Reading Progress app is built into Microsoft Teams Assignments and is available on the Teams app on Windows, Mac, web, iOS and Android platforms.
Microsoft began rolling it out globally on 24 August, but notes in a blogpost that it could take two weeks for it to become available in all regions.
The app illustrates one way that tech has been adapted to meet the needs of remote learning. It may also pave the way to scale up education — a small silver lining for many students whose education was stalled for months and will likely have long-term impacts on learning levels after a year of missed classes.
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Liam Tung
| August 25, 2021 — 12:06 GMT (13:06 BST)
| Topic: Education