Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams meetings is a web conferencing tool. For a quick tour see: Teams meetings: Interface overview How to use this checklist This checklist is designed to be a quick guide to help you get started with Microsoft Teams Meetings for teaching. The checklist includes links to useful resources and tools. Please use this checklist […]

You may wish to invite multiple or all students on a module to a Teams Meeting in your Ultra Course. To save having to manually input each of their email addresses, you can download a list of their email addresses from RISIS and paste into the Teams Meeting invitation in the Ultra Course. This guide

Introduction This guidance applies to recordings of Teams meetings made since 10th July 2022, which are stored in the ‘Recordings’ folder of your institutional OneDrive (or a corresponding folder in a shared Team). It does not apply to Teams recordings made before this date which are stored in Stream. For information on locating your Teams

Teams meetings provide a Live Transcript feature that creates a downloadable record of audio as text, with speaker attribution. You should be aware of the following:  There is no way to technologically restrict students starting / downloading a copy of a Teams meeting Live Transcript during a Teams meeting.  Once started, a text transcription of audio with speaker attribution will

Invite through calendar The simplest way to make sure that your guest is able to join and have the permissions that they require in the session is to include them on the invitations of the calendar. You can invite them with their personal, or external organisation email address. If they need to present in the

Before you start with polls Only meeting owners and presenters can create, manage, and launch polls. Meeting attendees have the ability to respond to polls, but they can’t edit them. Although they use the same platform, Polls are not the same as Microsoft Forms. You should enable Polls in the meeting before you use them.

Breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams Meetings enables the meeting organiser to split an online class into separate groups for discussions, projects, and collaborative work.  The guidance below shows you how to set up, run and close breakout rooms in Teams. Before setting up breakout rooms, there are some important things to be aware of: The

Teams integrates with Microsoft 365 accounts; queries should be directed to Digital Technology Services in the first instance (DTS@reading.ac.uk). Technical support and an introduction to Microsoft Teams and Office 365 tools is provided by Digital Technology Services (DTS). To support the use of Teams in Teaching and Learning, CQSD TEL have authored an index of Microsoft Teams guides on this site referring to Microsoft’s own Teams help & learning support guides. Please