Microsoft Teams: View meeting transcripts on Microsoft Teams for Mobile and iOS

You can now start transcription for your meetings, and view the meeting transcripts after the meetings on Microsoft Teams for iOS and Android.

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New ‘Activity’ Column in OneDrive ‘My Files’ list view

We are introducing a new Activity column in OneDrive My Files list view. The goal of this feature is to help users stay up-to-date on the files that they are working on with others by surfacing relevant activity information. We will show file activity related to actions, such as, user comments, edits, share, and @mentions.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88913

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View Video Recordings and Attendance Reports Inside LMS

The Microsoft Teams Meeting LTI app has now enabled users the access to meeting video recordings and attendance reports directly inside their LMS. The feature will be available to use in all of the LMS’ that are incorporating the Teams Meeting LTI app.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 96402

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Pre-assign Channel members to Breakout Rooms

This Breakout Rooms for Channel Meetings feature enables meeting organizers to efficiently pre-assign channel members to Breakout Rooms (both auto and manual) ahead of a channel meeting start.

Please note, that Meetings with Breakout Rooms are limited to 300 participants. If the channel contains more than 300 members, pre-assignment will not be available. Meeting organizers will have the ability to assign participants to Breakout Rooms during the meeting. 

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Time trends for Productivity Score people experiences

Time Trends in Productivity Score helps IT admins understand historical information about people experiences in their environment. Time trends extends organizational trend data from 28 days up to 180 days across Content collaboration, Meetings, Teamwork, Mobility, and Communication insight categories within people experiences. Productivity Score and people experiences must be enabled by a Global Administrator within the Microsoft 365 admin center to access this feature.

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Microsoft Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: Decoupling the User Notifications and Policy Tips on Exchange DLP

With this update you will be able to configure policy tips and email notifications in your Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies for Exchange Online independently for more granular control.

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Microsoft Teams: Home page for Teams for Education class teams

Home page provides a central destination for the latest announcements, resources, upcoming assignments, class files, and meetings for a class team.

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Microsoft Teams: Parent App

With Parent Connection, educators can see the roster of the parents and guardians for their students (info provided by School Data Sync) and initiate a Teams chat with them by a single
click. So now, instead of the twice-yearly parent-teacher conference or
sporadic email, educators and guardians can provide more iterative
updates back and forth through Teams chat to help manage and track their student’s progress.

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Microsoft Viva: Recurring time booking for breaks, message catch up, and learning in Viva Insights

Users with a Viva Insights subscription will see invitations to enroll into plans to automatically book recurring time for learning, breaks, and message catch up in briefing email and Viva Insights app in Teams.

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Microsoft Viva: Recommendations to Send Praise in Viva Insights

Praise in Microsoft Teams is designed to appreciate the effort that goes into the wide-ranging, collaborative work that Teams users do. Users can send praise to their colleagues through the messaging extension pinned to the Teams messaging bar or through the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams. For both, admins can use the Microsoft Teams admin center to enable/disable Praise.

Praise Recommendations is an enhancement coming to the Praise page in the Viva Insights app in Teams for all users with Exchange online mailboxes. Recommendations provide pre-populated suggestions to send praise based on signals such as collaboration activity.

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