- Microsoft Teams Meetings allows instructors to create online meetings outside or within a Canvas course and record the meetings.
- With Microsoft Teams Meetings, instructors can create virtual class space for meetings with students as well as set up student group meeting spaces.
- Instructors may also use this tool to set up a "meeting of one" for themselves to record a video of their own developed course content to be set in RCE areas of Canvas.
Creating a Meeting using Outlook Calendar
With this option you would create a meeting (or reoccurring meeting) on your Outlook calendar, copy the meeting link and paste it in your course content.
Creating a Meeting using Canvas Rich Content Editor
With this option for best results you and your students would have the latest version of MS Teams downloaded to your local devices. Further, you may find creating an MS Teams team for your class necessary for full functionality of the tools using the Rich Content Editor link.
- In the courses' Rich Content Editor area, select the plug-shaped apps button.
- In the drop down menu, select Microsoft Teams Meetings.
- A pop-up opens and you are prompted to sign in. Another pop-up appears where you sign in using your UWRF email address and your Falcon Account password.
- Once signed in, select Create Meeting Link. Note: The meeting will be scheduled and hosted in the Microsoft Teams Meetings application.
- Enter the meeting details and then select Create.
- You see a confirmation page on the screen that the meeting has been created. You have the option to copy the meeting link.
- The meeting link appears in the area where it was added to Canvas. Students are able to join the meeting with the link that was created.
- Be sure to set the due date of the Assignment/Discussion to the time and date of the meeting.
Joining the Meeting
- Select the meeting link
- Follow the prompts to log in and allow Teams access to your mic and camera
- Once you have set up the meeting as you would like it to appear, select Join Now
Breakout Rooms
- From the Control Panel, select the breakout room icon.
- In the dropdown, add the number of rooms.
- Assign participants to the rooms.
Microsoft guide: Create and manage breakout rooms during class meetings
Recording a Meeting
- When the meeting begins, select the options icon and select Start recording and Start transcription.
- When the meeting has ended, you can stop the recording and the transcription.This generates video and transcription files in your OneDrive. The files in a folder titled Recordings can be shared as needed.
Note: Attendees are not able to record the meeting. Only the meeting organizer or presenters are able to record.
Live Captions
Anyone attending a meeting can Turn on live captions during the meeting.
NOTE: MS Teams Meetings recordings created on or after May 25, 2021 are stored on OneDrive; MS Teams Meetings recordings created before May 25, 2021 are archived on MS Streams. Please see
this Microsoft article for more information.
- Choose the chat from the meeting and scroll to read the chats
Closed Captioning for Videos Recorded after 5/25/21
After the recording of the video is complete, the video will store to your One Drive and will include its closed captioning
Using the Microsoft Teams Whiteboard
Whiteboard integration is only available through the web client, not the desktop app.
- After the meeting has started, select the Share icon.
- Select Whiteboard, then Microsoft Whiteboard.
- To write on the board, select the pen icon. To type on the board, select the Note or Text icon and begin to type.
If the meeting is being recorded, anything written on the whiteboard will NOT be recorded. To access the board after the meeting has ended, select the meeting chat and select the tab Whiteboard or view it in the Board Gallery within the Teams app.