How to do a Group Project with Microsoft Planner for grades 7-9
Doing a Group Project can be a terrible experience. But, it doesn't have to be if you plan your group project in advance and track it to completion. This "How to" course is designed for students in Grades 7 to 9 to learn how to plan a group project -- using Microsoft Planner. This course is broken into four sections and provides three exercises for students. We anticipate that this course can be used across 2 to 3 sessions and will take about 4 hours of class time.
The course outline is:
0:01 - Introduction
1:00 - Agenda
1:09 - What is a project?
3:57 - How do you use Microsoft Planner?
14:17 - Exercise #1: Use Planner to create a plan (individual assignment) (About 30 minutes of work)
14:58 - How do you organize a project?
17:09 - Creating a project in Microsoft Planner
22:47 - Exercise #2: Create a plan as a group (About 30 minutes of work)
24:25 - How do you track a project?
25:09 - Updating the plan in Planner
30:04 - Exercise #3: Create and Update the Plan (About 2 hours of work)
31:48 - Wrap-up
This video has been created by the UMT360 team, to help students learn about how to plan and do projects. UMT360 helps School Boards, Post-secondary institutions, and other educational organizations implement Strategic Portfolio Management and Project Management systems, to help with Educational Curriculum development projects, IT projects, Facilities projects, Change Management projects, and other types of projects. Please visit us at https:\\www.UMT360.com for more information.
If you need more help with Planner, please check out these videos on YouTube: • How to use Microsoft Planner
• Microsoft Planner for Beginners Tutorial