There a several types of Teams meeting.
Scheduled meeting
Scheduled meetings are for pre-organised online meetings that typically fit the same model as a regular tutorial, seminar or lecture. They will usually cover just a single topic and may involve active learning and breakout rooms.
What are they for?
- 1 2 1 online meetings
- Sessions with external student groups
- Live online teaching; see how to make online interactive sessions available to students for information about:
- What to tell students.
- Naming conventions for sessions.
- Features of Teams meetings compared to Blackboard Collaborate.
When using Scheduled meetings for live online teaching, you should copy the meeting joining link and display in the Blackboard module to provide student access; access can be restricted to students via Blackboard adaptive release.
Note; from May 2021, participants who join the Teams meetings via the session url will have a ‘temporary’ meeting status. Their meeting display name contains the temporary status, which you can see in the participant list and chat panel. Meeting participants will be able to interact with chat during the meeting, however upon leaving their access is restricted to a ‘read-only’ record. They will no longer be able to:
- post messages
- view any subsequent chat record that occurred after they left
- access meeting assets, such as files. Staff should use Blackboard for distribution of core learning content.
If you require students to continue to interact with Teams meetings after a live online session, you will need to individually add their student email address to the meeting invite, when scheduling the session or during the meeting itself.
Channel meeting
If you have requested a Team for student collaboration, it is possible to use Team Channels to facilitate students meeting within the Team. You should copy the link to the specific Team, Team Channel or Channel meeting room and display in your Blackboard module, for student access. Note; Students invited to a Channel meeting, who are not part of the associated Team, cannot view or interact with meeting chat.
What are they for?
- Student collaboration such as group work, project work (whereby all students belong to the associated Team).
Instant meeting: ‘Meet now’
For impromptu meetings, you can create instant meetings with Meet now through Outlook, Teams calendar or in a Teams Channel. They are not suitable for live interactive sessions online or any other pre-organised online meetings that typically fit the same model as a regular tutorial, seminar or lecture intended for university of reading students.
What are they for?
- Informal, instant meetings.
‘Webinar’ meeting type *coming soon
Webinar meetings are not suitable for live interactive sessions online or any other pre-organised online meetings that typically fit the same model as a regular tutorial, seminar or lecture intended for University of Reading students:
- Webinar meetings require participants to complete a registration form to obtain a session joining link.
- The registration form and subsequent attendance report will unlikely record accurate student details as university account credentials are not required when joining a Webinar meeting.
- Break out rooms not currently available.
- Webinar meetings can only be created using the Teams calendar app (rather than Outlook).
What are they for?
- Single events requiring participant registration (if you want to run a multi-day event, you need to create multiple webinars because recurring meetings are not supported).
Live event
If you require a live event please contact DTS@reading.ac.uk.
Live events are meant for one-to-many communications where the host of the event is leading the interactions and audience participation is primarily to view the content shared by host. The attendees can watch the live or recorded event Teams and can interact with the presenters using moderated Q & A. They are not suitable for live interactive sessions online or any other pre-organised online meetings that typically fit the same model as a regular tutorial, seminar or lecture intended for university of reading students.
What is it for?
- Broadcasting information to a large audience, such as an All Staff Briefing.
Page last updated on June 14, 2021 by jackiefairbairn