What is Microsoft Teams?
Here are a few MS Teams highlights:
- Real-time collaboration space equipped with robust chat, whiteboard, and breakout room features,
- Powerful content-sharing capabilities for delivering course content such as lectures and presentations, class notes, course documents, and projects or assignments,
- Ready to be integrated with hundreds of EdTech apps to engage your students and personalize their learning experience,
- Conveniently access, manage, and share your class recordings with your students from your Humber OneDrive,
- Equipped with many accessibility tools like real-time closed captioning, live transcripts, and translation.
Learn more about Using Teams for Teaching by following this link to the Innovative Learning website.
How do I Create a Teams Link for Online Classes?
Method 1: Creating a meeting in Outlook (Recommended method)
With this method, your meeting links will be directly integrated into your Microsoft 365 environment within your Outlook and MS Teams app. Here’s how:
Step 1: Log into Outlook with your Humber login credentials.
Step 2: Go to the Calendar and Create a new event.
Step 3: Add a title, date and time to this meeting. Make sure to toggle on Teams meeting and click Save.
Step 4: Join the meeting, click the People tab and select Share invite to copy the meeting link.
Step 5: Share the meeting link with students by adding the meeting link to the Course Content area and Calendar in Blackboard. You can also share the link in an Announcement to the class.
Here’s a step-by-step guide.
Method 2: Creating a meeting link in Microsoft Teams
Step 1: Log into Teams with your Humber login credentials.
Step 2: Go to the Calendar and select New Meeting. If you would like, you can select the drop-down menu beside the New Meeting button and select ‘Class‘. This setting will prevent students from being able to start the meeting without you, as well as preventing them from being able to start recordings or edit meeting settings.
Step 3: Add a title, date, time and details to this meeting. If you would like, you can select a recurrence if your classes repeat consistently. Make sure the Online Meeting selection is selected! Click Save.
Step 4: To share the meeting link, go to the initial date of the meeting or class, click on the event, and copy the meeting link that is found in the details of the meeting.
Step 5: Share the meeting link with students by adding the meeting link to the Course Content area and Calendar in Blackboard. You can also share the link in an Announcement to the class.
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
Click on each heading to learn more about each question.
Do I need to create a new meeting link each time for my class or can I use the same one?
The answer to this question depends on a few factors.
The most important thing to consider is whether or not you will be recording the meetings or classes, and sharing the recordings with your students. If you are going to be sharing recordings, it is best to create new meeting links because the recordings will all have the same name, which may end up being confusing for you. If you are not going to be sharing recordings, you can use the same link for all of your classes!
How can I create recurring meetings?
You can create recurring meetings in your Outlook Calendar by following the instructions in this guide.
Self-directed help
- For a series of short helpful videos refer to Microsoft’s video series Microsoft Teams Video Training.
Need support? Contact the Innovative Learning Support Centre. We are here to help!