In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Day, Microsoft has highlighted a few more education-focused features coming to its apps – including OneNote, and Edge – in time for back to school.
Today is Teacher Appreciation Day, and in celebration of it, Microsoft has announced an array of education-focused features, starting with the introduction of Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams. There’s a bit more being announced today, though, with features covering different aspects of learning. In a separate blog post, Microsoft has highlighted a number of changes coming to many of its apps to help students and teachers during the learning process. First, there’s OneNote, which is getting support for live captions from Microsoft Translator. Essentially, the teacher can create a live caption session in the Translator app on their phone, and share the code for that session with students, who can then input the code in the OneNote app to have those captions be inserted into their notebook in their preferred language. This is in private beta in OneNote on the web, but it’s coming to everyone in August, including the Windows 10, Mac, and iPad apps. Also in August, it will be possible to record videos directly from OneNote and embed them into a page.
