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Enabling Microsoft Teams Meetings in MyClasses using Microsoft Education

Enabling Microsoft Teams Meetings in MyClasses using Microsoft Education

ID&D KB How-to Guide

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Microsoft Teams Meetings is a video conferencing tool that has been integrated into MyClasses. You can schedule class meetings in Teams from your Canvas course menu, and users can easily find the links to those meetings. Students can also schedule Teams meetings among themselves, allowing and encouraging collaboration.

 

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To Enable Microsoft Teams in MyClasses

  1. Navigate to your class home page.

    1. Click Settings at the bottom of the left menu

    2. Click the Navigation tab

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      Modify Navigation

  2. Scroll down until you see Microsoft Education.

    1. Click the three dots to the right.

    2. Click Enable

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      Enable Microsoft Education

  3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Save.

  4. Microsoft Education will appear in the left navigation menu.

    1. Click Microsoft Education to open the setup window.

    2. Click Continue setup

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      Start setup process

  5. The Course Settings page will appear.

    1. Confirm that both Teams Meetings and Teams are enabled

    2. If you want to allows students to collaborate in Teams outside of the course enable the “Add Microsoft Teams”

    3. Click Done

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      Confirm Course Settings

  6. A message will appear while your course is configured.

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    Course Configuration

  7. When complete you will see both Teams and Teams Meetings have been enabled.

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    Configuration Complete

To Create an MS Teams Meeting:

Once you have enabled Microsoft Education, it will appear on the left navigation menu of your course. You can begin creating Teams meetings.

  1. Click Microsoft Education on the left menu.

  2. Click the button labeled Teams Meetings to open the Teams Meetings window.

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    Join and Create Meetings

  3. Click New Meeting in the upper right corner of the screen. You may be directed to sign in to your Microsoft account. If that happens, sign in using your SU credentials.

    1. Add the details of the meeting.
      This is the title that students will see on their calendars.

    2. You can add individual students or the entire class. You can also add guests by typing in their email addresses. Guests can be either SU or non-SU attendees.

    3. The date and time is added to the students' calendars. You can join the
      meeting before the scheduled time and continue the meeting after the scheduled time.

    4. This sets the time zone in which the meeting occurs in.

    5. You can choose to have the meeting recur automatically. For example, you can choose to have a meeting repeat every Tuesday at 2:00 pm until the end of the semester.

    6. You can include descriptions, links, documents, etc., or leave it blank if no details need to be included.

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      Enter meeting details

       

  4. Click Save

  5. Meetings will appear under the Upcoming tab in the Teams Meeting window.After the meeting has been saved, you can edit any of these options by navigating to Microsoft Education and selecting Edit for the meeting.

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Meeting Saved

For more information on functionality available in Microsoft Teams visit the KB article Meetings in Microsoft Teams in the Technology Support Center.

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