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Microsoft Adds Reading Progress App to Teams

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

The app, Reading Progress, is designed to enable "students to independently read aloud, record themselves, and grow their reading skills while allowing educators to better support students’ progression. Students share the audio or video recordings of themselves with their teachers, who can then track the progress, provide feedback, and discover trends and opportunities for student growth."

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

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

About the Author

David Nagel is the former editorial director of 1105 Media's Education Group and editor-in-chief of THE Journal, STEAM Universe, and Spaces4Learning. A 30-year publishing veteran, Nagel has led or contributed to dozens of technology, art, marketing, media, and business publications.

He can be reached at [email protected]. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidrnagel/ .


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