You can add a Poll in any chat window, whether you are in a meeting or if you are just using chat on its own.
If you are in a meeting and you want to set up a poll, open the Chat window and click on the ellipses (...) at the bottom of the chat
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Add a poll to a Teams chat
Once you have clicked into your meeting you have a number of ways to manage your participants.
If one person will be speaking at a time, it is advisable to ask all other participants to mute their microphones. Teams will try to prioritise the loudest noise it detects so if you have...
In the participants window you can also click on the ellipses at the top of the page (in the same line as the heading People) and from here you can change the meeting options by clicking manage permissions or you can download an attendee list. This can be useful for online lectures in the...
If you hover over a participant and click the Ellipses that appear, you have a number of options, such as:
People without a University of Chichester email address can join Teams meetings as a guest. This could be for business meetings, for when we have guest speakers in lectures or for online events.
You need to make sure the guest has the link of the meeting that everyone else has, if you...
You can share your screen or other content in Teams meetings by clicking on the Share content button on your control bar (this is the button with an up arrow)
Choose your desktop (if you wish to play a video as part of your meeting or lecture, make sure you also select Include computer...
If you wish you go into your Teams meeting or lecture a few minutes early and put up a 'welcome screen' to do this:
Create a PowerPoint slide informing the participants the session will begin soon, with any further instructions (such as please mute your microphone).
Example for...
If your participants wish to say something or ask a question in a Teams meeting, you can advise them at the beginning to unmute themselves if you want them to be able to speak as and when they choose, or if you don't want to be interrupted, you can ask them to submit questions in the chat window...
There are two ways to set up Breakout roomsIn Teams meetings, you can either create them on the moodle page in advance, or use the Microsoft breakout rooms feature, so which should you use?
Setting them up on the Moodle page in advance
If you wish, a Team can be set up for a Module, however this is not necessary to hold online lectures, and is only needed if you would like a more social space for collaboration.
Moodle should be still be used for all module resources.
If you only want to set up an online lecture...