Microsoft launches Microsoft Forms for Office 365 Education

When we talk about markets, or rather, sectors in the market, we are referring to personal, professional or work-related and a third party that is not so popular, but just as important as the other two and it is the educational sector, a pillar of growth for a good number of companies.

And it is in this sector that technology companies have seen a market with enormous growth potential and are fighting to conquer it with tooth and nail, so it is not surprising that they bet on it with quite powerful solutions as is the case of this one that concerns us and whose protagonist is the Redmond company.

So Microsoft has launched its new tool Microsoft Forms for Office 365 Education , a way of standing up to the increasingly widespread Google Apps and Apple's greater presence in the education sector. Microsoft wants to boost the cloud in this market and Microsoft Forms is a good proof of this.

Thanks to Microsoft Forms in Office 365 Education, students and teachers will have at their fingertips a tool with which to create surveys and assessment exercisesIn this way questions can be raised either by teachers or students, questions focused on different uses that can be seen in real time. This allows for greater collaboration between teachers and students

The use of Microsoft Forms in Office 365 Education offers a series of possibilities that are therefore quite interesting for use in the classroom. In this sense, these are some of the options offered:

• Over 35 Learning Management Systems (Learning Management SystemsLMS).
• Student Information Systems(Studen Information System SIS).
• Gradebook Partners working with OneNote Class Notebook.
• Public preview of Professional Learning Communities (PLC) with Office 365 groups, plus adapted to needs of educators as it allows you to create PLC groups similar to any other Office 365 group and access a space with shared conversations, files, OneNote notebooks, and calendars.
• New functionality of sharing on Docks.com.
• General availability of Microsoft Forms, including two new features: autograding and real-time custom feedback.

Microsoft launches an ordeal to other platforms, more than because of the originality of its proposal, because of its integration with Office and the rest of the company's services. And it is enough to remember to get an idea of ​​the potential of this functionality that the Windows operating system is the most widespread among the devices used in the primary and secondary educational environment and now seeks to continue growing at other age levels.

Via | Microsoft