New education tools from Microsoft for Windows 10

[Arthur]

Full details here...

 

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/microsoft_in_education/2016/04/14/microsoft-announces-teacher-inspired-updates-for-windows-office-minecraft

 

At Microsoft, we’re all in on education!

 

Our company mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. In education, it’s to empower every student. Today, we’re proud to share the latest on what’s coming for Back-to-School 2016/2017.

 

Introducing Microsoft Classroom and Microsoft Forms, OneNote Class Notebook now with Learning Management System (LMS) integration, new experiences for Windows 10 and the dawn of “Minecraft: Education Edition” – Get ready!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApOTrTYfuGE

[zag]

Very interesting development, but Microsoft still don't get the big picture in education.

 

We need office 365 to auto login with Windows 10(that actually works), azure AD (that actually works), and a way to lock down client machines similarly to how chromebooks are doing it. Also Onedrive that doesn't constantly get confused, create duplicates and ask you to login 5 times a session!

 

Only then will they catch up google.

[CyberNerd]

Very interesting development, but Microsoft still don't get the big picture in education.

 

I think if they continue to copy verbatim Google products they'll keep most of the dyed in the wool educational users onboard.

 

Interesting though that long term MS Gold Partner Capita has just rolled out GAFE to the whole of Northern Ireland which complements the web based SIMS 8 nicely I would think.