Microsoft Teams is an amazing technology for teams to share Microsoft Office files and collaboration by text, audio, and video. A team can create a meeting and join the meeting right in the Team interface. These instructions are for using Microsoft Teams on a Laptop or Desktop.
Purpose: These instructions are for joining a Microsoft Team meeting.
Recommendation: Before a meeting, open up other tabs to online tools you need for the meeting. In this way you can continue to participate in the meeting, without leaving the meeting or losing focus on the meeting.
- Open the SCSU apps portal.
- Make sure Blackboard is open.
- Scroll down the page to find Teams.
- Click on the Teams link.
- After you click Teams, a screen with your teams will open.
- Make sure to enter the team for which the meeting is scheduled.
- The picture to the right shows what your team might look like.
Note: If you are on more than one team, you may need to click on All Teams and make sure you are in the correct team.
- The Team's feed has multiple channels.
- The General channel is the default channel.
- Look through the channel feed for the meeting.
- As shown on the right, the current meeting is clearly highlighted.
- Click on the Join button to join the meeting.
Note: Previous meetings are still logged on the feed but they are not the highlighted, current meeting.
The meeting interface looks something like this.
The bar in the center of the screen only appears when you activate the mouse over the video image.
As an attendee, make sure your microphone is muted.
You can choose whether to turn your camera on or leave it off.
There are two important buttons on the meeting bar.
- When you first enter a meeting, the participants are listed on a sidebar to the right.
- If you click Hide participants the sidebar will disappear.
- When you first enter a meeting, click on the Show conversation button.
- This will replace the participant sidebar with the conversation sidebar.
- You will see all the chat comments made by your peers on the conversation sidebar.
I wrote advice on the conversation sidebar pictured on the right.
- All the chats from your peers are here.
- Everyone can see all content posted here.
- The thumb emoji is great for when I ask questions of the entire class.
- Do not use the GIFs. They are too distracting.
- The field at the bottom is where you write your thoughts or questions.
- Click the paper airplane icon to send your chat message.
Recommendation: Before a meeting, open up other tabs to online tools you need for the meeting. In this way you can continue to participate in the meeting, without leaving the meeting or losing focus on the meeting.
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Note: Previous meetings are still logged on the feed but they are not the highlighted, current meeting.
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The meeting interface looks something like this. The bar in the center of the screen only appears when you activate the mouse over the video image. As an attendee, make sure your microphone is muted. You can choose whether to turn your camera on or leave it off. |  |
There are two important buttons on the meeting bar.
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I wrote advice on the conversation sidebar pictured on the right.
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All instructions and documentation written by:
Dr. Jason Lawrence, M.S., Ph.D.
Theory and Practice of Professional Communication
Artificial Intelligence writers, Internal Documentation, and Emergent Texts
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