The Teach module inside the Microsoft 365 Copilot app has quietly become one of the most practical AI tools in education — and on April 1, Microsoft rolled out six new features that make it even more useful for real classroom work. The best part? They’re free for every Microsoft 365 Education customer and ready to use today.

Here’s a quick tour of what just landed, why each one matters, and how to try them in under ten minutes.

1. Turn any lesson into something standards-aligned in seconds

The new Align to Standards feature lets you paste any content — a reading passage, a worksheet, a lesson outline — and instantly match it to educational standards from 35+ countries. You can upload a file or paste text directly, pick your region and grade level, and the Teach module surfaces the aligned standards plus suggestions for strengthening the connection.

This is a huge time-saver for anyone who’s ever written a great lesson and then spent an extra 30 minutes mapping it to state or district standards after the fact.

2. Modify reading level without losing meaning

Modify Reading Level has been one of Teach’s most popular features, and it just got sharper. Drop in any text and generate multiple grade-level versions side-by-side — perfect for mixed-ability classrooms where you want the same core content at 4th-grade, 6th-grade, and 8th-grade complexity. The AI preserves key concepts and vocabulary while adjusting sentence structure and explanations, so students at every level are working with the same ideas.

3. Add supporting examples and differentiate instructions

Two closely related features round out the content-modification toolkit:

• Add Supporting Examples takes a concept your students struggled with and generates fresh, varied examples that reinforce it without changing the underlying lesson.
• Differentiate Instructions rewrites task directions for different learner profiles — more scaffolding for students who need it, open-ended challenges for students who are ready to stretch.

Used together, these two features turn a single lesson plan into three or four differentiated versions in about the time it takes to pour a cup of coffee.

4. Two new learning activities: Fill in the Blanks and Matching Game

Teach now generates interactive Fill in the Blanks and Matching Game activities from any content you provide. Paste in a vocabulary list, a history passage, or a science diagram description, and Teach produces a ready-to-share activity students can complete inside Teams Assignments or your LMS. Results flow back to the assignment gradebook, so there’s no extra grading step.

These pair beautifully with Flashcards (already generally available) to give educators three interactive activity types with almost zero prep time.

Quick example: a 15-minute differentiation workflow

Say you’ve just taught a 7th-grade lesson on the water cycle and you have a mixed classroom. Here’s how the new Teach features chain together:

1. Paste your existing lesson into Align to Standards to confirm NGSS alignment.
2. Run Modify Reading Level to produce a simpler 5th-grade version and a more advanced 9th-grade version.
3. Use Add Supporting Examples to generate three new real-world examples of evaporation for the students who still seem shaky.
4. Use Differentiate Instructions to rewrite tomorrow’s task directions for three different readiness groups.
5. Generate a Matching Game on water-cycle vocabulary for a warm-up activity.

Total time: about 15 minutes. Manual equivalent: about 90.

Next step

Open the Microsoft 365 Copilot app at m365.cloud.microsoft, sign in with your school account, and click Teach in the left rail. Pick a lesson you already love, run it through two of the six features, and see what comes out the other side. If you want a starting point, Modify Reading Level is usually the quickest win for teachers who’ve never opened Teach before.

Already using Teach? Drop a comment with your favorite prompt — the 365NinjaCat community has a growing library of classroom-tested examples, and we’d love to add yours.