{"id":1498,"date":"2026-07-09T08:41:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:41:35","slug":"welcome-your-students-back-with-your-new-microsoft-teams-homepage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/2026\/07\/09\/welcome-your-students-back-with-your-new-microsoft-teams-homepage\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Your Students Back with your New Microsoft Teams Homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bWelcome back everyone! I hope everyone has had a wonderful summer and you are all recharged and ready to inspire young minds. Today I am excited to share some of the changes that Microsoft made over the summer.\u00a0 Our class Teams now have a Homepage and Flipgrid, a favourite for many teachers,\u00a0\u00a0is now called\u00a0\u200bFlip.\u00a0 Please read on for more information about these changes and don&#8217;t hesitate to email me if you have any questions or if you would like support with information technology for you and your class.\u200b<\/p>\n<h1><span class=\"ms-rteForeColor-6\">Teams Homepage:<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>\u200bOur class Teams now have a new Home Page that makes your Team more like a class webpage. On your page you can have resource links, videos, a list of assignments (that is linked to the assignments feature) and you will get analytics about the number of people that visit\u00a0your team.\u00a0 Click on\u00a0<strong>Edit\u00a0<\/strong>in the top right of your Home page to get started.\u00a0 If you would like to learn more about how is all works, please\u00a0<strong>c<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/topic\/set-up-a-home-page-in-your-class-team-74cd3e26-f63a-41e7-be31-a54b5a6b0a8d\"><strong>lick here to visit an\u00a0instruction page\u200b<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>or watch this seven minute video:\u200b<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/piMd8RY0tPI?si=h7Pes4QGNCRJl6qu\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1><span class=\"ms-rteForeColor-6\">Flipgrid is now Flip:<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Flip (formerly Flipgrid )is a super fun way for students to answer questions, introduce themselves, share information and more. Kids love making videos and Flip is a very engaging video discussion app\u200b\u200b in which students create short videos that can be shared with your class.\u200b If you are interested,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/info.flip.com\/getting-started.html\"><strong>click here to get started<\/strong>.\u200b<\/a>\u00a0You can sign in with your Microsoft account (your regular work email) to make it easy.\u00a0 Please make sure to send home a\u00a0\u200bdistrict app consent form to make sure your parents know you are using it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bWelcome back everyone! I hope everyone has had a wonderful summer and you are all recharged and ready to inspire young minds. Today I am excited to share some of the changes that Microsoft made over the summer.\u00a0 Our class Teams now have a Homepage and Flipgrid, a favourite for many teachers,\u00a0\u00a0is now called\u00a0\u200bFlip.\u00a0 Please [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}