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Educator Trial in a Box Guide

This guide shows you how to quickly and easily try a few transformational tools from Microsoft Education in 5 quick steps.

	Log in to Device A with your Teacher credentials and connect to the school network.
	Interested in drastically improving your students' reading speed and comprehension?1 Try the Learning Tools Immersive Reader to see how kids can learn to read faster, using text read aloud, and highlighting words for syntax.
	Looking to foster collaboration, communication, and critical thinking in the classroom? Launch Microsoft Teams and learn how to set up digital classroom discussions, respond to student questions, and organize class content.
	Trying to expand classroom creativity and interaction between students? Open OneNote and create an example group project for your class.
	Want to teach kids to further collaborate and problem solve? Play with Minecraft: Education Edition to see how it can be used as a collaborative and versatile platform across subjects to encourage 21st century skills.

1. Log in and connect to the school network

To try out the educator tasks, start by logging in as a teacher.

1. Log in to Device A using the Teacher Username and Teacher Password included in the Credentials Sheet located in your kit.
2. Connect to your school's Wi-Fi network or connect with a local Ethernet connection.

2. Drastically improve student reading speed and comprehension

Learning Tools and the Immersive Reader can be used in the Microsoft Edge browser, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft OneNote to:

• Increase fluency for English language learners
• Build confidence for emerging readers
• Provide text decoding solutions for students with learning differences such as dyslexia

Try this!

1. On the Start menu, click the Word document titled Design Think.
2. Click Edit Document and select Edit in Browser.
3. Select the View menu.
4. Select the Immersive Reader button.

5. Press the Play button to hear text read aloud.
6. Select these various settings to see different ways to configure Immersive Reader for your students.

Text to Speech	Text Preferences	Grammar Options	Line Focus

3. Spark communication, critical thinking, and creativity in the classroom

Microsoft Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, content, and apps together in one place. This guided tour walks you through the essential teaching features of the app. Then, through interactive prompts, experience how you can use this tool in your own classroom to spark digital classroom discussions, respond to student questions, organize content, and more!

Take a guided tour of Microsoft Teams and test drive this digital hub.

Try this!

1. Take a guided tour of Microsoft Teams and test drive some teaching tasks. Open the Microsoft Edge browser and navigate to https://msteamsdemo.azurewebsites.net.
2. Use your school credentials provided in the Credentials Sheet.

4. Expand classroom collaboration and interaction between students

Microsoft OneNote organizes curriculum and lesson plans for teachers and students to work together and at their own pace. It provides a digital canvas to store text, images, handwritten drawings, attachments, links, voice, and video.

Try this! See how a group project comes together with opportunities to interact with other students and collaborate with peers. This one works best with the digital pen, included with your Trial in a Box.

1. On the Start menu, click the OneNote shortcut named Imagine Giza to open the Reimagine the Great Pyramid of Giza project.
2. Take the digital pen out of the box and make notes or draw.
3. Follow the instructions for the project. Look for the Try this! callouts to experiment with these engaging activities.

• Discover the power of digital ink by selecting the Draw tab. Choose your pen and get scribbling.

  

• Type anywhere on the page! Just click your cursor where you want to place text.

• Use the checkmark in the Home tab to keep track of completed tasks.

  

• The Researcher tool from the Insert tab can help find answers.

  

5. Get kids to further collaborate and problem solve

Minecraft: Education Edition provides an immersive environment to develop creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive environment where the only limit is your imagination.

Try this! Today, we'll explore a Minecraft world through the eyes of a student.

1. Connect the included mouse to your computer for optimal interaction.
2. Open Microsoft Edge and visit https://aka.ms/lessonhub.
3. Scroll down to the Details section and select Download World.

4. When prompted, save the world.
5. Enter your same teacher username and password and click Accept.
6. Click OK on the Minecraft: Education Edition Free Trial box.
7. Click Play.
8. Click Lesson Hub Vol 1 to enter the downloaded world.
9. Explore the world by using the keys on your keyboard.

• W moves forward.
• A moves left.
• D moves right.
• S moves backward

10. Use your mouse as your "eyes". Just move it to look around.
11. For a bird's eye view, double-tap the SPACE BAR. Now press the SPACE BAR to fly higher. And then hold the SHIFT key to safely land.

To try more advanced movements or building within Minecraft, use the Minecraft Controls Diagram.

12. Access and adapt over 300 lesson plans, spanning all grades and subjects, to meet your needs. Enjoy exploring new worlds and happy crafting.

Try this!

1. Go to education.minecraft.net/.
2. Click Class Resources.
3. Click Find a Lesson.

Watch what Educators say about Microsoft Education delivering better learning outcomes Bring out the best in students by providing a platform for collaborating, exploring, personalized learning, and getting things done across all devices.

See how one school improves reading skills using Learning Tools Immersive Reader	Here's how Microsoft Teams creates more robust classroom experiences at all ages.
Watch teachers elevate the education of students using OneNote.	Here what other teachers say about using Minecraft: Education Edition in their classrooms.

Get more info

• Learn more at microsoft.com/education
• Find out if your school is eligible for a device trial at aka.ms/EDUTrialInABox
• Buy Windows 10 devices

¹ OneNote in Education Learning Tools transform the student experience.