Reading Time: 2 minutes With Zoom soon going away, now’s the perfect time to do a brief recap of everything we’ve talked about so far with Microsoft Teams. Teams provides an easy replacement for Zoom – it’s integrated directly into your Canvas course, and you can access many helpful Microsoft products from inside a meeting. Let’s review some of the most pertinent information you’ll want to refer to as you get up and running with Teams. Setting up the Integration and Creating Meetings The first thing you’ll need to do is turn on the integration in your course from the settings page. After that, you’ll be able to create meetings…
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Microsoft Teams Meetings Recordings: Tips and Notes
Reading Time: < 1 minute In our deep dive on different Teams Meetings features, today we’ll turn our attention to recordings. You Can’t Pause Recordings In Zoom, you could temporarily pause a recording, then restart it. However, you cannot do this with Teams meetings. If you stop a recording then start recording again, you will have two separate recordings. Remember to Stop Recordings Teams will automatically stop a recording when all participants leave the meeting. However, you shouldn’t rely on that. If one of your students forgets to leave the meeting, the recording will continue for four hours before it’s stopped. Recordings Won’t Capture a Couple of…
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How Do I Set Meeting Options and How Can I Test out Teams Meeting Features?
Reading Time: 2 minutes This week, we’re continuing our deep dive into various aspects of Microsoft Teams meetings and looking at both meeting options and how you can easily run a practice meeting to test various aspects of teams. Getting to and Adjusting Teams Meeting Options The Microsoft Teams Meeting options allow you to control some valuable aspects of the meeting, such as setting up a meeting lobby, restricting who can present, and turning on automatic recording. Before we give best practices for some of these settings, we’ll go over the different way to access these meeting options. Through the “edit” page for a scheduled meeting. You can get to…
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Microsoft Teams and Canvas: Joining and Recording Meetings and Uploading the Recordings to Canvas
Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week we talked about how to set up the Microsoft Teams-Canvas integration and create Teams meetings within your Canvas course. Today we’ll be looking at the next step in the process – joining and recording meetings as well as uploading the recordings to your Canvas course. Joining a meeting You can quickly and easily join a meeting from Canvas. In the course navigation, click “Microsoft Teams meetings” The scheduled meetings for the course will be listed. Canvas will display a “join” button on the meeting tile when the meeting is scheduled to start. Teams will prompt you to choose how to join the meeting. You can…