{"id":14072,"date":"2021-01-13T15:41:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T15:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=14072"},"modified":"2021-01-13T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T15:51:40","slug":"teams-behaved-a-bit-better-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/teams-behaved-a-bit-better-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams behaved a bit better today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teams behaved a bit better today. I got nearly the whole class in. I found that when pupil could not get access inviting them to join the call nearly all worked. This failed for one pupil.<\/p>\n<p>Teams seems to use a lot of resources, a fair bit of beachballing and my fan started when searching for pupils to call in. I presume that Teams being <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=20682358\">an electron app<\/a> and uses a lot of resources.<\/p>\n<p>Glad I&#8217;ve got a small class, pulling in 33 one by one would be tedious.<\/p>\n<p>On another positive note joining the meet with computer and iPad and then sharing screen with iPad continued to work well. I even manage to show the class team on the iPad screen in the meeting which was handy for explaining things. This is much better, I might even try PowerPoint again if things continue to improve. <a id=\"fnr1-2021-01-13\" href=\"#fn1-2021-01-13\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teams still seems a bit, what my class calls, laggy. Some pupils had difficulty uploading files to assignments. I found even small images were slow to post.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note the <a href=\"https:\/\/status.education.scot\/\">Education Scotland &#8211; status page is nice<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"footnotes\">1. <a id=\"fn1-2021-01-13\"><\/a> Things improved last lockdown when I had: <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/simpler-meet\/\">Simpler Meet<\/a>s <a href=\"#fnr1-2021-01-13\">&#x21a9;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teams behaved a bit better today. I got nearly the whole class in. I found that when pupil could not get access inviting them to join the call nearly all worked. This failed for one pupil. Teams seems to use a lot of resources, a fair bit of beachballing and my fan started when searching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnjohnston\/status\/1349381389163098115?s=20"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21,39,1122,1118],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"tag-classroom","8":"tag-glow","9":"tag-microsoftteams","10":"tag-teams","11":"kind-note","13":"h-entry","14":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-3EY","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14075,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14072\/revisions\/14075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14072"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=14072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}