{"id":188,"date":"2020-06-16T16:56:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/remoteworking\/?p=188"},"modified":"2020-06-16T17:27:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:27:24","slug":"20-updates-microsoft-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/remoteworking\/20-updates-microsoft-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"20 updates for Microsoft Teams for Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As learning continues to move online, Microsoft introduces a collection of new (and upcoming) features in Teams. Highlights include an expanded 7&#215;7 gallery view, breakout rooms for small group collaboration and more analytics arriving in time for the next academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several new features will be of importance to&nbsp;educators and students:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Use a custom background for your video <\/li><li>7&#215;7 gallery view for group meetings<\/li><li>New Breakout&nbsp;Rooms&nbsp;to allow for smaller group discussion<\/li><li>Meeting attendees increased from 250 to 300<\/li><li>Meeting Lobby to prevent unwanted guests<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The full list of features, with expected release dates, are detailed in the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/education-blog\/20-updates-for-microsoft-teams-for-education-including-7x7-video\/ba-p\/1457748\">20 updates for Microsoft Teams for Education, including 7&#215;7 video and Breakout Rooms<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/remoteworking\/files\/2020\/06\/7x7-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Teams 7x7 meeting view\" class=\"wp-image-189\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/remoteworking\/files\/2020\/06\/7x7-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/remoteworking\/files\/2020\/06\/7x7-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/remoteworking\/files\/2020\/06\/7x7.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As learning continues to move online, Microsoft introduces a collection of new (and upcoming) features in Teams. Highlights include an expanded 7&#215;7 gallery view, breakout rooms for small group collaboration and more analytics arriving in time for the next academic year. Several new features will be of importance to&nbsp;educators and students: Use a custom background &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/remoteworking\/20-updates-microsoft-teams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;20 updates for Microsoft Teams for Education&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-generalnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/remoteworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/remoteworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/remoteworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/remoteworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/remoteworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/remoteworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/remoteworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/remoteworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/remoteworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/remoteworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}