In 2023-24 school year, Microsoft will use AI in classrooms to help students with Math and Public Speaking

Microsoft unveiled new tools for the classroom that use AI. As kids are ready for a future that will be even more digitally advanced, the business believes that its new "Learning Accelerators" will help pupils improve their speaking and arithmetic abilities while also making instructors' work a bit simpler, said Will Shanklin in his article from February 2023.

A brand-new AI classroom tool for instructors is called Speaker Progress. By "streamlining the process of designing, assessing, and analyzing speaking and presenting assignments for students, groups, and classes," according to Microsoft, it saves them time. It can offer succinct descriptions of presentation-based abilities while emphasizing areas that need improvement. It also enables teachers to listen to student recordings, determine their requirements, and monitor development.

It will be a complement to Speaker Coach, a current service that Microsoft introduced in 2021 that offers individualized speech coaching and feedback. For instance, it employs AI to provide suggestions in real-time on pitch, pace, and filler words. "Speaker Coach is one of those products that kind of was a lightbulb tool for a lot of children that I've dealt with," said an anonymous instructor in a Microsoft launch video. "Speaker Coach greatly helps our pupils and even benefits us as adults since it allows them to practice and receive real-time feedback."

Microsoft's AI math tools are a response to the pandemic's disastrous effects on math test results. Problems are broken down by Math Coach, who also guides students through the procedures to solve them while fostering critical thinking. The teacher-focused companion application, Math Progress, assists teachers in creating practice questions and giving more useful feedback. According to the manufacturer, the functions complement one another in that Math Coach leverages Math Progress instructor feedback to create new lessons. Moreover, it claims that schools may measure progress and more effectively accomplish their objectives by using the products' total math fluency statistics.

With Microsoft Teams for Education, Speaker Progress, Math Coach, and Math Progress will debut during the 2023–2024 academic year. Speaker Coach is now accessible in Teams and PowerPoint.