Primary work in Microsoft teams

[bingandflop]

Hi all

We are in a covid hotspot and my children are meant to do remote learning on teams. The teachers have set worksheets to fill in but they are in PDF so cant be edited. Does anyone know how this works? Or do children have to open a new document and just type their answers out?

I'm totally baffled by this!

If anyone has any advice that would be great

@Soontobe60

Print it off, complete it, take a photo of it and send that back.

This is what we did

@ikswobel

I would always try to set tasks that can be done without worksheets- especially for primary. Draw, write, make something, learn something and write or prepare a talk. There are also loads of ways to engage chilldren though apps like Flipgrid and thinglink. Online teaching and learning is a very different skill set from class teaching and hopefully the school is providing some kind of training and support for staff.

They probably aren’t, and if they are it will be the logistics of setting work on Teams, not training on ideal tasks to set for children to do virtually. My school wouldn’t have anyone qualified to lead this training, particularly at no working days notice.

Most of the suggestions you make wouldn’t work for most maths objectives, where once a child has been taught something, they just need to practice it. Unless the school has access to an online learning platform like Mathletics, I’d suggest textbook pages or worksheets are often the easiest way to get this done. In class I’ll sometimes m get the kids to make up their own questions using dice or number cards or something and Mark their own using a calculator, but instructions like that can get complicated virtually. ‘Complete this set of questions’ is straightforward enough to understand, once the child has worked out how/where to write their answers. When I tried setting more open ended stuff in the last lockdown it was a nightmare, with constant messages asking how/what to do, and the work submitted was generally poor. Plus if they’d misunderstood a key part of the task, all the work done was wasted/incorrect, as I didn’t find out until they submitted it (in class I’d have been circulating and have redirected them earlier).

@modgepodge I think mathletics or sumdog is the way to go and possibly using the quiz function in ms forms alongside some live teaching.online textbooks can be great too but depends on funding

Mathletics is ok but there isn’t enough on there to use it every day or for every objective. Oh I’d forgotten about the quiz function, yes I did use that a bit (mostly copying question out of a textbook!), though I had an issue with some of mine with poor internet connections not being able to view images I’d put in for some questions.