Category: Microsoft Teams
Meeting Options Settings – Take Control of Your Lessons!
Are you having issues controlling meetings with students? If so, try tweaking the meeting options. To easily access the ‘Meeting options’ settings click on the ‘dot dot dot’ to reveal the settings. Common Issues ‘Some learners can’t get into the meeting’ – this could be because if learners are ‘Presenters’ …
Quick Glance – Tab-Tastic Ideas for Microsoft Teams
Adding activities and resources to tabs in Microsoft Teams channels is a piece of cake. Why not keep your learners from drifting off by keeping them focuses inside their class team. Here are some ideas for you to get started!
Top Tips – How to Restore a Channel in Microsoft Teams
You can delete channels and restore channels. Watch this short video to find out how.
Spotlighting in Microsoft Teams Meetings
What? Spotlighting a video is like pinning it for everyone in the meeting. If you’re an organizer or a presenter, you can choose anyone’s video (including your own) to be the main video people see. Why? As a lecturer, you may wish to focus the ‘spotlight’ on specific individuals when …
Quick Tip – Do Learners Keep Talking Over You? Use the ‘Don’t allow attendees to unmute’ option!
You now have the option to prevent students from unmuting. You’ll now see three options. See image below. Make Learners Participants Make sure you go to the ‘Manage Permissions‘ options first and change ‘Who can Present?‘ to ‘Only Me‘. See this blog for help with this: http://blogs.loucoll.ac.uk/learningtechnology/2020/09/30/top-tip-prevent-students-from-sharing-unmuting-removing-others-in-meetings/ When inside a …
Quick Tip – Need Help to Complete the Register?
When inside a meeting you can easily download a list of who is in the meeting for later use. When inside a meeting: Open up the Participant List Click the three dots Click Download Attendance List Check inside your computer download folder and open the MS Excel document. Warning: Do this during the …
Quick Tip – Prevent Students From Sharing, Muting, Adding & Removing Others in Meetings
Are you having issues with learners removing or muting other learners in online lessons on Microsoft Teams. Simply change the permissions of the meeting so that only you can control these features. When inside a meeting: Open up the Participant List Click the three dots Click Manage Permissions Set the …
LearnZone & Microsoft Teams Integration
The new integration automatically creates Microsoft Teams sites for you to use for DTLA. It uses your existing LearnZone and HELearnZone course pages to create a Teams site of the same name with the addition of a prefix. LZ: for LearnZone Courses HE: for HELearnzone All Teams sites that are …
Recording Online Lectures in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft teams meetings is a live video conferencing application that can be used for meetings and on lectures and webinars. Below are some video to help you get started using Teams meetings and the different ways you can organise and share them. Here’s how: Recording Meetings using Microsoft Teams & …