
More recently, Edsby added its new EdsbyLive integration with Teams that provides quick access to a secured Teams meeting. Soon after, Desire2Learn took an additional step in announcing its Brightspace Course Connector for Microsoft Teams, enabling teams to be created and kept in sync with course rosters and allowing users to navigate directly from Brightspace courses into Teams. In an incredibly rapid response, Instructure, Blackboard, Schoology, Desire2Learn, itslearning, Classera, Firefly and our Moodle partners worked with Microsoft Education to ensure educators and learners could easily schedule and access Teams meetings from within LMS courses and calendars. But when the world suddenly shifted to distance learning in the face of a global pandemic, educators told Microsoft and its partners that integration of Microsoft Teams and their LMS was imperative. Today, most LMSs allow educators and learners to access OneDrive and M365 files, OneNote, and other Microsoft solutions directly from within their courses.

We are working on providing more seamless experiences, keeping teachers and learners focused on their goals rather than having to juggle tools. Microsoft Education and its partners understand that the flow of teaching and learning invariably crosses solution boundaries. Learning Management System (LMS) partners Here are some examples of how Microsoft Education and our partners are enabling innovation. They’ve innovated in ways we couldn’t have imagined a short time ago.

In this blog, we celebrate our education partners and what they’ve done to help schools deliver on their missions despite the many challenges facing them. It was these times that impressed and humbled us as we all worked tirelessly to keep teaching and learning going. Our partners delivered when our community needed them most-during a global pandemic that massively disrupted schools, homes, and places in between. Microsoft’s EdTech partners stepped up in a big way this year.
