Microsoft Teams’ new ‘Reading Progress feature’ will help students improve their reading fluency

Microsoft is launching a new Reading Progress feature to its video meet and collaboration platform Microsoft Teams. The feature will help students improve their reading fluency by allowing them to record themselves reading a passage of text, and offers teachers the ability to assess accuracy rates and mispronunciations among other things.

As the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way of life, and the very definition of what was considered normal until a few years ago, teachers can no longer assess a student’s reading fluency in person. Microsoft’s new feature will help in solving this very issue. The company is said to have accelerated its work on the new Reading Progress feature during the pandemic when it became very difficult for teachers to measure reading fluency remotely.