Students, faculty and staff use Microsoft Teams for online synchronous (live) class sessions, recording class sessions for asynchronous viewing, and meetings. Be sure to use your campus email address and password when using Microsoft Teams for your class.
Instructions for downloading and accessing Microsoft Teams.
Teams Features
Record the meeting - sessions may be recorded and shared later.
Sharing Content - presenters can share content (PowerPoint, web pages) with attendees.
Outlook – send to Teams – puts emails plus attachments into Teams Chat.
Meeting Details – the meeting organizer can see recording, notes, transcripts, & attendance.
Attendees can see recording, notes, and transcripts.
Speaker attribution in live captions – in meeting turn on live captions, now captions are attributed to the speaker.
Class Teams
Microsoft Teams will automatically be created by IT Services well in advance of the start of the semester. There is an opt-out option for faculty who do not want/need Teams for their classes.
Microsoft Teams for classes – features
Enrollment - If created by IT Services, the Team enrollment is managed automatically using information from the Registrar. Students are automatically removed from the Team at some point after the semester is concluded. Teams are not auto archived, the professor will need to archive their Team.
Merge Sections of the same class – for faculty who prefer one Team for multiple sections of the same class. IT Services will build all sections, the professor will need to populate the the kept section with the students from the other sections. Delete the Teams for sections where students have join the main section. The professor will need to manually manage the combined section regarding add/drops.
Opt out – indicate to IT Services that you do not want a Team created for your class.
Microsoft Teams class sites are automatically created, and instructor and student memberships are synced for each class section. Instructors can change this default by logging in to CheckMarq and accessing Faculty Center.
From Faculty Center, scroll to My Teaching Schedule for the upcoming term. Instructors can use the "Create Microsoft Team" checkbox to control Teams sites for their class sections.