Back in September, in New AI features in Microsoft’s Learning Accelerators, I mooted the imminent arrival of a new Learning Accelerator, Maths Progress in Microsoft Teams and am happy to report it’s available now in the latest version of Teams for Education and promises to streamline maths assignment creation and provide student performance analytics to help teachers be accross attainment at individual and class level, whilst also keeping students on track by addressing mistakes and common misconceptions. Maths Progress is designed to simplify lesson planning by providing teacher-led and assigned activities and quizzes accross the maths curriculum.
Getting Started
Teachers can then use Maths Progress’ intelligent question generator to create a comprehensive set of topic specific maths questions which include some answers as distractors based on common mistakes to help students think more critically as they build their knowledge.
Teachers can also customise assignments by choosing the following options:
- Show your work – offers students the option to upload images or share links to OneNote pages to show their work.
- Student rating - optionally requests students share feedback on the level of difficulty for each question (easy, hard, or just right) to self-identify concepts where students may struggle.
- Shuffle question order - randomly reorders problems for each student to improve assignment integrity.
Self Correcting (Mostly)
Once students submit their work, it’s automatically graded and mistakes are detected, along with common misconceptions these mistakes may support. Once an assignment is assessed and sent back to students, they’re supported with step-by-step guidance to each problem to help students learn the correct solution.
Comprehenive Analytics and Insights
Teachers can review comprehensive analytics and insights for every student over time and compare individual performance against the class performance metrics, including the overall grade, number of points, most frequent question difficulty rating, and mistakes and misconceptions identified in this and other assignments to help better understand learning trends.
