This guide explains how to schedule a Teams Meeting in a Blackboard Ultra Course. Please enable the MS Teams Meeting tool in the course before following the steps in this guide.
- Click on the Microsoft Teams Meeting link in the course.
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2. If prompted, sign in using your Microsoft account.
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3. Schedule a meeting by clicking on + New meeting (or Schedule a meeting if there are no meetings already scheduled in the Course).
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4. Enter the meeting details and click Save.
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5. The meeting will appear in the list of Teams Meetings, your Outlook calendar and the Outlook calendars of the attendees.
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6. Join the meeting by clicking on Join. You can edit the meeting’s details by using the Edit function.
How to add multiple/all students as attendees to a Teams Meeting invite.
Need to add multiple students or all students on a module to a Teams Meeting? You cannot currently use the ‘Add entire class’ function to invite all students to a Teams Meeting. This guidance: Inviting multiple or all students on an Ultra Course to a Teams Meeting explains how you can download a list of student email addresses from RISIS and paste into a Teams Meeting invite.
Adding students as required attendees adds the meeting to their University student Outlook calendar.
Guide last updated on October 11, 2024