We use the education subset of Teams. It surely isn’t perfect, but it has many positive features.
Group calls with 30 people work just as good as individual calls, if not better.
You can manage groups into break-out rooms very easily.
There’s whiteboards, forms, polls and other integratable features for interactive communication with students.
The assignments mechanic is pretty decent in general. However, the rubrics very cumbersome to add.
The MsGraph backend is very extensive and let’s you create your own apps that can integrate with all the teams data. That makes it possible to automate a lot. Also MSAL is a tried and trusted authorization mechanism.
It also has a lot of downsides, like bugs, automatic updates that break features you were using, nobody listens to feature requests, shitty documentation, the environment is very big and you can easily get lost (we’ve had to make couple videos and documentation to explain it all to new students). But all in all it is pretty decent to work with.
We use the education subset of Teams. It surely isn’t perfect, but it has many positive features.
Group calls with 30 people work just as good as individual calls, if not better.
You can manage groups into break-out rooms very easily.
There’s whiteboards, forms, polls and other integratable features for interactive communication with students.
The assignments mechanic is pretty decent in general. However, the rubrics very cumbersome to add.
The MsGraph backend is very extensive and let’s you create your own apps that can integrate with all the teams data. That makes it possible to automate a lot. Also MSAL is a tried and trusted authorization mechanism.
It also has a lot of downsides, like bugs, automatic updates that break features you were using, nobody listens to feature requests, shitty documentation, the environment is very big and you can easily get lost (we’ve had to make couple videos and documentation to explain it all to new students). But all in all it is pretty decent to work with.