What Portugal searched for on 21 September 2026

Most searched in the 24 hours to 07:20: classroom (2K+), outlook (2K+), teams (1K+).

• classroom2K+ searches
  Published 5 November 2026, 15:06

  Google Classroom is the platform where a school keeps assignments, materials and marks. The school itself creates each pupil's account on its own domain, so there is no need to register separately. People were searching for it today because it is the first day of school for older pupils: classes in ensino secundário (upper secondary, years 10 to 12 on the sciences and humanities tracks) began on 21 September, a week later than for everyone else.

  The delay was announced on 5 August and confirmed by Despacho n.º 10430/2026 of 21 August. The announcement states the reason plainly: the same teachers were marking the extraordinary round of national exams (3, 4, 7 and 8 September) and also had to open the school year. For nursery and for the 1st to 3rd cycles (up to and including year 9), the dates did not change: those pupils went back to school on 11–⁠15 September, as did those on vocational courses in upper secondary.

  What this means for a newcomer family: if your child is in year 10, 11 or 12 on a sciences and humanities track, their school year started today, not in mid-September with everyone else's. The school will share the first week's timetable directly in Classroom or in Teams, since each school decides for itself which platform to use. For what comes next (exams, choosing a track and getting into university), see our guide After year 9 in Portugal; for how to enrol a child in school, see How to enrol your child in school in Portugal.

  Source: portugal.gov.pt

  

• outlook2K+ searches
  Published 5 November 2026, 15:06

  Outlook is Microsoft's email service, and it is the same account that a school or employer issues on its own domain. No Microsoft 365 outage was reported today: the last major one was three weeks ago, on 31 August and 1 September, when a fault in shared access checks took down Outlook, Teams and SharePoint at the same time. We don't know why people started searching for it today.

• teams1K+ searches
  Published 5 November 2026, 15:06

  Teams is the other school platform: some Portuguese schools run assignments and lessons in Microsoft Teams rather than Google Classroom, and the education directorate (DGE) has a separate section for them on Office 365, which is free for schools. The spike has the same cause as the one for Classroom: Monday morning and the first day of school for upper secondary pupils. We found no separate event, such as an outage or an announcement, for today.

  Source: apoioescolas.dge.mec.pt