Introducing Microsoft Learning Accelerators – the future of education
For those of you who stopped by the AspiraCloud exhibition stand at Bett 2025 this January, you may have been introduced to Microsoft Learning Accelerators, which we were demoing on the stand.
What are Microsoft Learning Accelerators?
Learning Accelerators in Microsoft 365 Education are Microsoft’s new learning tools that are transforming the teaching and learning environment. Offering a variety of learning activities for students to practice reading, public speaking and more, these AI-powered tools also generate purposeful and qualitative data to ultimately empower your classroom with data-driven insights. The tools are seamlessly integrated into your digital classroom environment, making it easier than ever to monitor individual student progress and tailor your teaching to meet their needs.
Daniel Watkiss, Customer Empowerment Lead here at AspiraCloud, takes a deeper dive into these real-time coaching tools and shares how they help students to progress:
Reading Coach:
Reading Coach uses visual aids to enhance vocabulary recall and offers positive reinforcement when students pronounce words correctly. It also helps to improve reading fluency with personalised practice and immediate feedback on pronunciation, syllabification, and vocabulary recall.
Reading Progress:
Streamline reading assignments and gain actionable insights to focus on specific areas for individualised improvement. Reading Progress tracks students’ reading abilities, allowing educators to quickly identify and address areas needing attention. It also offers a variety of reading passages from its partnered library, the ability to upload your own topic specific content or use the power of AI to create custom passages through user friendly prompts.
Reflect:
Reflect aids students in articulating their emotions in a safe, engaging way, providing educators with insights to offer active support. It can support students’ emotional well-being with tools that help them express their feelings and build emotional vocabulary and understanding. With Reflect, students are provided tools to help regulate their emotions, grounding them, allowing them to return to a regulated and learning ready state.
Search Coach:
Search Coach helps students learn to ask effective questions, find reliable sources, and critically assess their results in an ad-free environment. It is designed to enhance information literacy by teaching students how to form effective search queries and identify credible sources.
Speaker Coach:
Speaker Coach evaluates students’ public speaking performances and offers real-time feedback without the stress of an audience. It also provides personalised feedback on public speaking skills, including pitch, pacing, and the use of filler words.
Maths Progress:
Maths Progress helps educators identify trends at both individual and class levels, address common misconceptions, and provide step-by-step guidance on calculations for students. It includes features such as automatic grading, intelligent question generation, and options for students to show their work. It can simplify maths assignment creation and gain insights into student performance.
Why choose Microsoft 365 Learning Tools?
Data-driven decisions: Access comprehensive data and insights for individual students, multiple classrooms, and entire schools. Microsoft’s educational insights tools help school leaders explore broad views of student progress to drive informed decision-making.
Personalised learning: Offer students more opportunities to practice and receive targeted coaching in an inclusive environment. These tools support foundational and future-ready skills, enabling educators to provide differentiated learning activities and instant feedback.
Time-saving tools: Spend less time on administrative tasks and more time on active instruction with streamlined assignment creation, review, and analysis. These learning tools help educators save time in the classroom while unlocking the full potential of each student.
Transform your teaching today!
Is your school is looking to leverage Microsoft 365 innovative learning tools to create a more engaging and effective learning environment? Or implement new ways to empower your students to catch up, keep up, and get ahead with tools designed to support their unique learning journey? Then Microsoft Learning Accelerators are for you!
If you are already a Microsoft 365 school or Trust, we can offer personalised training sessions to help you best leverage these new learning tools for your staff and students. Get in touch to learn more.
For those schools and trusts currently migrating to Microsoft 365 with AspiraCloud, an introduction to Learning Accelerators will be part of your post migration training to ensure you get the most out of get the most out of your M365 migration.
Discover more about our training services and find out more about our solutions for education.