Microsoft Teams: Grading Periods in Teams Assignments

Teams Assignments is adding grading periods, which will allow users to define grading periods for Class Teams, such as Fall Semester and Spring semester. Users will be able to see separate grades for each grading periods and see a view of Assignments broken down by grading period.

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SharePoint: Export Microsoft Lists as a dataset for Power BI Data Hub

Today, you can visualize a list as a report in Power BI, from within the list itself. Soon, it will be possible to export a dataset from Microsoft Lists for use in Power BI Data Hub. Once your list is in Power BI Data Hub, you can take advantage of its rich data visualization features to create powerful, custom reports based on your list data.

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SharePoint: Export Microsoft Lists as a dataset for Power BI Data Hub

Today, you can visualize a list as a report in Power BI, from within the list itself. Soon, it will be possible to export a dataset from Microsoft Lists for use in Power BI Data Hub. Once your list is in Power BI Data Hub, you can take advantage of its rich data visualization features to create powerful, custom reports based on your list data.

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Microsoft Teams: Alternative Grading Schemes in Teams Assignments

Teams Assignments is adding alternative grading schemes, which will allow users to define and grade assignments different grading schemes such as a letter grade scheme or a points based scale. This feature will expand grading options beyond the currently offered percentage grade shown today.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections Administration in Microsoft Admin Center

Centralized IT administration of Viva Connections experiences along with home sites within the Microsoft Viva admin experience in M365 admin center.

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Microsoft Stream: Add to Favorites & navigate to Stream Start page in the Stream web app on SharePoint

You will now be able to favorite a video directly from the Stream web app. Additionally, there will be a new Home button in the Stream web app for easier navigation to the Stream start page in Microsoft 365 to get back to videos you favorited or videos recently shared with you.

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Microsoft Teams: Grading Categories in Teams Assignments

Teams Assignments is adding grading categories, which will allow users to define categories of assignments with associated weights that will be used to calculate grades. Average grades will be calculated by multiplying the average grade for each category by its associated weight. This will allow users to give different levels of importance to different types of assignments.

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Microsoft Online Services Subprocessor List

This notice is to inform you of an update regarding the Microsoft Online Services Subprocessors List.

Microsoft may use non-Microsoft organizations to help provide Online Services. As a function of their role for Microsoft, a small set of these organizations may process your customer data or personal data, only to deliver the services Microsoft has retained them to provide; they are prohibited from using your data for any other purpose. In accordance with GDPR, we disclose these subprocessors to you in advance of their first engagement and provide notification of any changes over time.

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Manage Enhanced Teams Apps for Outlook from the Microsoft 365 Admin Center

In April 2022, Microsoft announced the Preview of Enhanced Teams Apps for developers to extend personal apps and message extensions to other parts of Microsoft ecosystem, like Microsoft 365 and Outlook.

Previously, admins in the targeted release program were managing their Enhanced Teams Apps for Outlook via the Teams Admin Center. We’re moving this experience to Integrated Apps on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Teams Admin Center will continue to remain the surface for managing apps on Teams clients.

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Account Linking Experience with new Microsoft Bing and Edge AI Features

Microsoft just announced new generative AI experiences coming to Microsoft Bing and Edge. These will become available as a preview to individuals accessing Bing.com or using the new Discover feature in the Microsoft Edge Sidebar with their personal Microsoft Account (MSA).

Some users who sign up for access to the new Bing experience with their MSA may also have linked that MSA account to their Azure Active Directory (AAD) work account. Even under these conditions, access to these new Bing experiences is only associated with their MSA.

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