Third Party Tools

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

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

This article is written for staff managing a team space, it advises using Channels to provide dedicated spaces within a Team for collaboration and meetings between students. See the Microsoft video Introduction to Channels for a quick overview of channels functionality. Setting up Channels: Please note, all Team spaces have a ‘general’ channel: cannot be renamed, reordered or deleted. can be open for all to post, or restricted

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