Microsoft Adds Reading Progress App to Teams – T.H.E. Journal

Posted: September 10, 2021 at 6:15 am

Remote Learning

Microsoft has released a free reading fluency app for its remoteremote meeting and collaboration tool, Teams.

The app, ReadingProgress, is designed to enable "students to independentlyread aloud, record themselves, and grow their reading skills whileallowing educators to better support students progression.Students share the audio or video recordings of themselves with theirteachers, who can then track the progress, provide feedback, anddiscover trends and opportunities for student growth."

Reading Progress provides differentiated instruction capabilities,AI-assisted assignment review (with automatic detection of studenterrors) and dashboards with information about student progress andtrends.

Reading Progress is available at no charge. Furtherdetails can be found on Microsoft's education portal.

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