Ask before every school trip, answered in Teams

Hanna teaches geography at a secondary school in Vienna. She also organises every school trip. Before each trip, she checks the weather, the roads and the trams on five different websites. Twice last year, a class of fifty set off into a storm. Once, the coach sat for an hour behind a closed bridge. With xMap Flows, Hanna built Guide. When a teacher asks in Teams, Guide reads where and when the trip is, checks that day’s forecast, looks for closures on the way, and answers in the same chat. Now any teacher types in Teams: Danube island, Friday, fifty pupils. In a minute Guide answers with the forecast, any closures on the way, and a clear go or rethink. Last month it moved two trips before the rain came. Hanna still plans the trips. She just stopped planning the storms into them.

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