Teach information literacy with Search Coach and Search Progress
Search Coach is a Teams tab app that learners access anytime to practice essential search skills—writing strong queries, using filters with intention, and evaluating results—in a secure, ad-free environment. Educators use the Insights tab in Teams to spot patterns over time, with clear, time-boxed data views to support targeted coaching.
Search Progress brings Search Coach into Assignments (available in Teams for Education and the Microsoft 365 LTI) and adds scaffolds that make learners' thinking visible as they gather sources for their assignment. Assignment-level, class-wide Insights let teachers compare individual learners’ patterns to the class median and review trends in saved sources and query activity for each project.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you'll be able to:
- Describe why effective search strategies matter for learners
- Identify the core search tools in Search Coach
- Describe how Search Coach supports skill-building with tips, lesson plans, and Insights
- Set up Search Coach for your class
- Create structured research assignments with Search Progress
- Describe how Search Progress makes learners' choices and reflections more visible to educators, including assignment-level, class-wide Insights