Learning Accelerators
Help students catch up, keep up, and get ahead
Learning Accelerators are seamlessly integrated into products you already know and love. Discover AI-enabled reading practice for learners with Reading Coach, available now.
BENEFITS
Explore powerful tools for students and educators
- Access data and insights for individual students, multiple classrooms, and entire schools with Learning Accelerators built into Microsoft Teams. Education Insights Premium is now included in all Microsoft 365 Education plans.
- Give your students more opportunities to practice reading with learning activities from Reading Coach and Immersive Reader. Students can take responsibility for their own learning with gentle guidance through pronunciation, syllabification, reading speed, and vocabulary recall.
- Strengthening information literacy to distinguish fact from opinion is a key skill for students now and in their future careers. Search Coach helps students learn how to form effective search queries, find trusted sites with NewsGuard, and think critically about their results in an ad-free environment.
- Empower school leaders to explore big picture views of student progress that drive informed decision-making and help learners thrive with Education Insights within Microsoft 365.
Features
Powerful tools for students and educators
Reading Coach
Give your students engaging, individualized reading fluency practice. Reading Coach provides guidance on the correct pronunciation and syllabification, visuals to help vocabulary recall, and positive reinforcement when students pronounce words correctly.
Reading Progress
Tracks students’ reading skills, give educators actionable insights quickly, and focus students on specific areas for improvement with Reading Progress. By streamlining the reading assignment creation, review, and analysis process, educators can spend more of their time on active instruction.
Reflect
Help students build their emotional vocabulary and express feelings in a safe, fun way, while giving educators the insights they need to provide active support with the Reflect tool in Microsoft Teams.
Search Coach
Improve information literacy and teach students how to search effectively with Search Coach, built right into Microsoft Teams for Education. Students learn to ask effective questions, find reliable sources, and identify credible sources while safely navigating the web. Educators can get insights into their students’ search habits to better inform instruction.
Search Progress
Track the development of information literacy skills by evaluating students’ search activity and behaviors and identifying ways to improve the quality of their search queries over time using the Search Progress app.
Speaker Coach
Evaluate students’ public speaking performances and give personalized feedback on details like pitch, use of filler words, and pacing without the stress of an audience using the real-time Speaker Coach tool.
Speaker Progress
Monitor data on student public speaking skills in the Speaker Progress app, with analytics from Speaker Coach. Track how presentation skills are improving at the individual, class, grade, and school levels and free up time for active instruction.
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Frequently asked questions
- Learning Accelerators in Microsoft 365 Education streamline the creation, review, and analysis of practice assignments, offering students real-time coaching to help them progress. These tools support foundational and future-ready skills acquisition, enabling educators to provide differentiated learning activities and instant feedback, while also fostering improvement in an inclusive environment.
- Learning Accelerators cover two core areas, foundational and future-ready skills.
- Foundational skills include reading, numeracy, and emotional well-being.
- Future-ready skills include digital literacy (search) and presentation (speaking).
- Learning Accelerators are available with the free version of Office 365 A1 and all Microsoft 365 plans.
- Explore the Learning Accelerators quick-start guide to help you get started. Get the guide
- Yes, Learning Accelerators only require Microsoft Teams for Education, which is available on multiple operating systems, including Windows, Chrome OS, and iOS (including iPad OS). Teams can also be accessed through most web browsers.
- Practice data from Learning Accelerators is automatically collected in Education Insights and Education Insights Premium to make it easier for educators to track progress and take action. Education Insights provides a holistic view of each student by connecting data from Learning Accelerators with engagement, assignments, and emotional well-being in one app. Educators get detailed insights so they can provide targeted feedback and support.
- Reading Progress and Reading Coach have been awarded research-based design certifications from Digital Promise. Microsoft teams have partnered with experts in each field to develop the Learning Accelerator tools. For example, we partnered with reading fluency experts, such as Dr. Tim Rasinski, Pam Allyn, Dr. Mark Seidenberg, and Dr. Timothy Shanahan, to develop Reading Progress and Reading Coach.
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- Immersive reader is available in over 50 languages to support multilingual learners, deaf learners, and those with auditory processing disorders or cognitive differences.
- Real-time translation is available in over 100 languages with Microsoft Translator.
- Reading Progress and Reading Coach are supported in over 100 languages.
- See the full list of Reading Progress supported languages.
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