Microsoft Teams in Brightspace

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Last updated: Jul 25, 2023 by Laurie Fox
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Microsoft Teams is a workspace for real-time collaboration and communication, meetings, file and app sharing, and even the occasional emoji! All in one place, all in the open, all accessible to everyone. This article provides a brief overview of using Microsoft Teams in Brightspace. 

Create Teams Meetings for your Class

You can create a Microsoft Teams meeting, within Brightspace, anywhere you have access to the Brightspace Editor; this includes Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes. You can also add a link to your Microsoft Teams meeting, as a content item, to course modules.

To create a meeting using the Brightspace Editor

  1. Select the Quick Links icon. 

  2. From the "Insert Quicklink" window that appears, scroll down (past all Course Materials) to the Third Party section and select MS Teams Meeting.

  3. If it isn't immediately visible, scroll down to display the purple Sign in button. Click Sign in and enter your Geneseo credentials to authenticate your Microsoft Teams account.

  4. If it isn't immediately visible, scroll down to display the purple Create meeting link button. Click Create meeting link.

  5. Add a title, start date and time, as well as end date and time for your meeting, then click the purple Create button.

  6. On the resulting confirmation page, click the purple Insert button to insert the meeting link into the Brightspace Editor.

  7. Students can join your Teams Meeting by clicking on the title of the meeting in the Announcement, Assignment, Discussion, or Quiz.

Adding a Teams Meeting link to a Brightspace module

  1. Access the module into which you want to add a link to your Microsoft Teams meeting, then select the gray Existing Activities button. Choose MS Teams Meeting from the resulting drop down menu.

  2. If it isn't immediately visible, scroll down to display the purple Sign in button. Click Sign in and enter your Geneseo credentials to authenticate your Microsoft Teams account.

  3. If it isn't immediately visible, scroll down to display the purple Create meeting link button. Click Create meeting link.

  4. Add a title, start date and time, as well as end date and time for your meeting, then click the purple Create button.

  5. On the resulting confirmation page, click the purple Insert button to insert the meeting link, as a content item, in the module.

  6. Students can join your Teams Meeting by, first, clicking on the title of the meeting in the module, then choosing to Open in New Window. 

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