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Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is available for all active Faculty, Staff, and 黑料爆料. Faculty can use Teams to facilitate synchronous instruction as well as creating a Class Team to facilitate collaboration between students. The following tutorials will help you to set up and use MS Teams for your synchronous session needs.

What's the Latest in Teams

As of Fall 2025, the Teams Classes and Teams Meetings tools have been moved under the new Microsoft Education button. This update enhances security, simplifies navigation, and keeps all your existing Teams meetings and classes exactly as they are.

Get started with the guide below:

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MICROSOFT TEAMS ESSENTIALS

Following are some of the basics for working with Teams.

Creating a Class Team in Canvas

Integrate your Canvas course with Microsoft Education and keep your roster synced between the two.

USING BREAKOUT ROOMS

Use Microsoft Breakout Rooms to break students into small groups during class meetings. You can keep the groups consistent during the session or move participants between rooms. Only meeting organizers using the desktop versions of Teams (Windows or Mac) can create and manage breakout rooms.

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DURING THE MEETING

Review the following tips for faculty and students when conducting Teams sessions, including lighting, background, attire, and more.

COMMUNICATION TOOLS

Following are tutorials to make sure communication is at its best during your Teams sessions.

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COLLABORATING WITH TEAMS

Microsoft Teams allows collaboration among members through channels and document sharing. It also offers a Class notebook that allows for instructor/student collaboration and sharing. See the following tutorials to learn more.

CAPTIONING

Microsoft Teams does not provide captioning for recording. However, MS Teams DOES do live captioning during the meeting. The following tutorials show you how to create captions and use Live Captions.

HOW DO I...?

TEAMS FOR THE LIVE CLASSROOM

Use Teams to record and share your live classroom-based session.