Communicate in chats
Conversation is about informally communicating news or exchanging ideas and understandings. Chat in Microsoft Teams provides an easy way for teachers to have conversations with individual students or groups to clarify, instruct, and support students as they grow as learners. For example, a primary teacher uses Schoology LMS for students to complete asynchronous learning experiences and one student needs some assistance. The student starts a chat with the teacher to relay their need. The teacher is notified and engages with the student using text, images, video, and screen sharing in chat to support the student's needs.
Chat also allows students to discuss schoolwork with other students, including options to add file sharing and audio, or video meetings. Microsoft Teams supports guest access so teachers can bring experts, or people not in a specific class or course in Schoology, together to communicate and collaborate beyond the live meeting through persistent chat messages.
In another scenario, an intermediate teacher reviewing student work on a math quiz realizes a small group of students is excelling compared to the rest of the class. The teacher wants to provide an informal enriching mini lesson just for this group. The teacher creates a group chat and invites the students to join a mini lesson on logic puzzles. The teacher then uses chat to provide the students with materials, and monitor the small group discussion as the students work together to solve the logic puzzles.