{"id":97391,"date":"2021-05-11T08:50:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/?p=97391"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T02:34:04","slug":"microsoft-return-to-school-helping-schools-reopen-with-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/2021\/05\/11\/microsoft-return-to-school-helping-schools-reopen-with-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Return to School: helping schools reopen with confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on schools with many continuing to operate remotely with online instruction or in a hybrid model due to ongoing safety concerns. As of April, approximately 47 percent of students<\/a> had not yet returned to in-person learning.<\/p>\n

To help K-12 school districts, especially those with multiple campuses, across the U.S. prepare for the return to the classroom, we are introducing Microsoft Return to School<\/a>. Built on Microsoft Power Platform, the solution provides tools to help school districts and schools efficiently and safely manage the logistics of returning to in-person classes, in accordance with CDC guidelines, and monitor intelligently with capabilities for a safer learning environment.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Return to School enables daily symptomatic attestation, periodic testing, manual contact tracing, and visual dashboards to help schools create a safe return to in-classroom learning. Microsoft Return to School was designed and developed\u00a0through extensive collaboration with Los Angeles Unified School District<\/a>, the second-largest district in the US with more than 80,000 staff who serve about 650,000 students.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Return to School is an easy-to-use, configurable solution to:<\/p>\n