Signs of learning with Microsoft TEAMS, Kahoot, Canvas and Microsoft Whiteboard

By René Normann Jensen, VUC

Microsoft TEAMS

I use this as a collaboration tool. In TEAMS you can have video conference so they can talk and see each other. In addition, they also have the opportunity to share the content from their screen to others in the meeting, so they all have a common starting point. In TEAMS, you can create both open (Team 1…) and closed (Grp 1…) channels where the students have the opportunity to sit in closed or open online group zones. In TEAMS, you can make posts about the topic of the day/week and get the students to comment in the chat about some of the things they can see in any pictures or links to videos they need to watch and give feedback on.

Kahoot

Here I make a combination of questions from the students and some I as a teacher prepare. The students must each create one or more relevant questions and give between 2-4 answer options for each question. I do the same as a teacher. Then the students will play our common Kahoot, which gives a clear picture of how much the students can remember and have learned.

Canvas

Every week, the students have a hand-in assignment. As a teacher, I have made a number of questions, in the program Word, for the week’s topics and chapters that they must answer and hand in before the week is over. I do not have daily assignments, so the students themselves can plan their own work in relation to their own life with children and sports and whatever may be for the individual. We will initially go through this submission in the following week, to see if the students have understood the academic content.

Microsoft Whiteboard

I use a lot of the drawing program Whiteboard to illustrate, communicate, explain and draw to support the students’ learning styles in order for them to achieve greater competence. It is my experience that the students get a clearly better understanding when I use this method – Often I then take a screenshot of today’s review and put it in TEAMS so the students can see what we have talked about again.