May 7, 2021

As promised earlier this year, Reflect is now available to all Teams for Education customers. It is ready to use today as soon as it is added to your class team. As a new fully-hosted, production-level solution, Reflect will be simple to enable for your organization and easier for your tenant users to access in Teams. Reflect has also benefitted greatly from your feedback. Reflect now offers localization and additional reporting features in Insights.

We thrive when we are working and learning in environments that support our emotional well-being. These are environments in which we feel heard, valued, safe, and included.

Group leaders (e.g., meeting leaders, managers, teachers) struggle to collect information about the emotional state of each of their group members, yet this information is helpful for understanding how to support their groups’ engagement, productivity, collaboration, well-being, and intra-group relationships.

The Reflect messaging extension helps team members be more aware of their own, and each other’s, emotional state during communication by giving them the ability to create simple, effective, and engaging emotional check-ins directly in the flow of a conversation in Teams.

Group leaders can check-in with their team members about how they are feeling in general, or about a specific topic, such as an assignment, the experience of learning or working from home, or current events in their community.

• Aligned with the latest research and best practices for social-emotional learning, organizational psychology, and emotionally supportive environments
• Available as a chat extension for channel discussion, in group and meeting chats and in 1:1 chats
• Includes a list of suggested check-in questions and offers the ability to create custom questions for checking in with colleagues
• Check-ins can be set so responses are public, private to sender, or fully anonymous
• Runs on an organization's own Azure service
• Professional development resources for educators available at: https://aka.ms/checking-in-with-students and https://aka.ms/remote-wellbeing

Begin with the Architecture & Solution overview and the Scenario walk-thrus to read about what the app does, how it works, and view a step-by-step guide on how to use it. When you're ready to try out Reflect, or to use it in your own organization, follow the steps in the Deployment guide.

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Architecture & Solution Overview

Scenario walk-thrus

Deploying the Reflect messaging extension

Extending the functionality of Reflect