Brant Moriarity
Senior lecturer, Kelley School of Business, IU Bloomington
As a faculty member in a top-tier business school, Brant Moriarity promotes Teams to his freshmen students as a better way to collaborate. During the coronavirus pandemic, when his exams for thousands of Kelley students were moved online, he received a Microsoft award for his innovative use of PowerShell to centralize the process of creating Teams sites for hundreds of Kelley students.
“Many of my students are freshmen, and throughout their entire high school career, it was all Google Docs, Google Docs, Google Docs,” says Brant. “I'm trying to convince them that was fine for high school, but now with Teams you have a more integrated way of sharing files, and everyone has instant access to edit that document right away, without having to collect email addresses.”
Brant also uses Teams to make life a bit easier for his students—and himself. For a weekly online lecture, he noticed some students not able to attend. “But if you missed it, you missed points for participation during that exam or during that class session,” Brant explains. “So I used Power Automate to create a Microsoft form that I would send out to students who missed class. They would select what class they missed and based on what they chose, Power Automate would then send them a link to that class.”
