Analyzing Microsoft Teams Data
More and more organizations are switching to Microsoft Teams mostly for online meetings. However, Microsoft Teams can deliver much more than that and it will be unjust to compare it with other popular meetings apps. What Microsoft has done with Teams is amazing! Now that I got to study and program Microsoft Teams, I have found it a powerful and extensible platform. For example, Microsoft has provided add-ons for common verticals, such as Teams for Education. Microsoft Teams can be further enriched with apps and can be used to centralize all these Excel spreadsheets that are floating around. And the best of it: most of the Microsoft Teams data is exposed via a single data source: Microsoft Graph API, with the caveat that it is not that easy to get the data out.
I’ve added a new case study “Public School District Gets Insights from Microsoft Teams” that shows how Prologika helped one of the largest public school districts in the Atlanta Metro area to derive insights from Teams. They struggled for a long time trying to get the necessary data from Microsoft Teams to analyze how effectively teachers and students utilize Microsoft Teams in these challenging times. Prologika developed a custom app to extract the required data by calling the Microsoft Graph APIs. The key solution benefits were:
- Automated daily retrieval of Teams data
- Enabled a digital feedback loop to learn from the gathered insights and improve operations
- Ability to analyze educational data by various perspectives (school, class, teacher, student, assignments, submissions, and events)
