What’s new in Microsoft Reflect

Introducing new features and activities to support social-emotional learning, gain wellbeing insights, and build a happier, healthier learning community.

Microsoft Reflect
Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 poster

Make room for
new emotions

Are you feeling it? Check out the new Reflect brain breaks celebrating Disney and Pixar's Inside Out 2:
Stories • Coloring Pages • Games
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A screenshot of the Together view in Reflect, along with a compass icon.
New way to check-in

Compass

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Elevate your learners' voices by letting them share reasons behind their emotions, grouped at the class level into focus areas with strategies to navigate them. These options, tailored to your check-in questions, are backed by years of research from experts at the Stanford Graduate School of Education 📚✨.
An abstract ball with buttons represents different time selections: 15, 30, or 45 minutes.
New study tool

Focus timers

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Enjoy our original music designed exclusively for enhanced focus and learning. 🌟🍂 Choose your session inspired by the four seasons, select your focus duration, and stay on track with soothing melodies and calming visuals. 🌸🎶
Screenshot of the Reflect app in Windows 11
New way to Reflect

Windows app

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Easily create a check-in, respond to one, or take a brain break directly from your Windows taskbar. ✨💻
A screenshot of the Connection Wheel game in Reflect.
New game

Connection wheel

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Build connections with your staff, students, and peers 🎯 Select a topic, spin the wheel, find a conversation starter, and connect with your team. Perfect for welcoming everyone back from vacation and kicking off the new school year! 🏫✨
Screenshots of the check-in settings in Reflect, allowing you to collect responses from anyone.
New feature

Collect responses from anyone

New check-in
Now you can share check-ins to collect responses from people outside of your school, district, or institution. 💜 Create a check-in with the updated setting and share the link with your community to gauge their mood. Perfect for enhancing teacher-parent connections, professional development, and events! 🤩
Thumbnails from Anthony's yoga videos in Reflect show him practicing different yoga poses outdoors.
Yoga exercises for ages 13+

Daily Balance

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Join Anthony in a series of yoga sessions designed to help you unwind, uplift, and reconnect during stressful study periods and exams. Whether you're a seasoned yogi or just starting out, these sessions are tailored for you. Take a few minutes out of your day to set everything else aside, deep breathe, move your body, and experience tranquility. 🧘‍♂️🌿
Collections of animal thumbnails represent the different stories available in Reflect.
New social-emotional read alouds

Wild Wisdom stories

Explore the stories
Explore social and emotional skills through engaging stories and nature-themed coloring pages. 🌿 Dive into our new library of stories to read aloud and receive instant feedback on your reading fluency with our AI-powered engine. Learn about dolphin friendships 🐬, elephant empathy 🐘, penguin teamwork 🐧, and more!
Screenshot of Emotion Clusters that can be found in the Trends view in Reflect.
New model to enhance learner support

Emotion Clusters in the Trends view

View trends for web check-ins
Scholars categorized emotions by dimensions like pleasantness, energy, and impact. We collaborated with researchers to create this new model. It groups emotions into 11 natural elements-inspired clusters, helping understand and respond to learners' emotional trends. 💜✨
Screenshot from Reflect shows how to export check-in data to Excel and what this data looks like in Excel.
New feature

Export to Excel

View your web check-ins
You asked, and now it's here! 🎉 Easily export check-in data to Excel for seamless analysis and tracking. To get started, simply navigate to your check-ins list, select the "..." option, and then choose "Export to Excel".
>Screenshots from Reflect in Microsoft Teams Assignments: Add check-in to your assignment, explore the Together view, and personalize feedback to students.
New feature

Exit ticket in Teams Assignments

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Integrate Reflect check-in into your Microsoft Teams Assignments with a single click, empowering you to: 📢 Amplify student voices 💡 Gain valuable insights from their perspectives ✨ Tailor feedback based on their reflections.
Collage of thumbnails featuring learners expressing different emotions, serving as the thumbnails for In a Heartbeat, the new podcast in Reflect.
New podcast

In a Heartbeat

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Turn little moves into big wins with our new podcast on navigating emotions and life skills, specifically designed for the school setting and based on research.
>Integrate with your LMS
New way to Reflect

Integrate with your LMS

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Reflect provides seamless and secure integrations with Canvas, Schoology, Moodle, D2L, Blackboard and more learning tools to create impactful check-ins, gain well-being insights, and build a happier, healthier learning community.

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