Third Party Tools

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

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

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

Note: Blackboard provides the central hub for teaching and learning. Teams is supplementary to Blackboard and must not be used for: Core learning content,  Essential academic module communications (do not use Teams calendar or channels for essential module communications), Summative assessment submission and feedback,  Copyrighted materials, for examples scanned articles made available in the Talis Reading List.  When requesting a Team for use with

The Meeting Organiser and Presenters in a meeting have the ability to manage the settings of other participants. During a meeting, you can: Change the role of a individual participant (for example, promote a participant to presenter). Mute all participants. Mute individual participants. Control the ability of attendees to unmute their mics (Meeting Organiser only).

The guidance below relates to setting up live online sessions. Before setting up ‘Scheduled meetings’ for live online sessions, you should plan What to tell students. Naming conventions for sessions. Please note: Live online sessions can be scheduled via your Outlook calendar (option 1) or from your Teams calendar (option 2). Instructions for both options