Microsoft Teams

All UNCG faculty, staff, and students can use Microsoft Teams video conferencing. Only faculty and staff can request a team, but, once created, students can be added as members. To request a team, submit the Create a Team in Microsoft Teams form in the ITS Service Catalog.

For more information visit: Microsoft Teams: Creating a Team.

Before scheduling meetings, enable MS Sync in Canvas course settings and enable Teams Meetings in the course navigation.

For more information visit: Getting Started with Teams Meetings for Classes.

Meeting Tools are accessible only in the main meeting window. If you don’t have a dual-monitor setup, this video tutorial will help with tips and tricks to make one screen work.

For more information visit: Present in Teams with one Monitor.

In Microsoft Teams, participants can be placed into Breakout Rooms automatically, manually, or through self-selection. To set up self-selection:

• Start a Teams meeting
• Select Rooms from the menu
• Select the number of rooms you want to create
• Under Assign Participants select Let people choose their rooms.

For more information visit:

• Choose a breakout room as a Teams meeting participant
• Manage breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams

You can join your class meetings from either the Class Team, Teams calendar, or your Outlook calendar—it just depends on how your instructor has set things up. If your class meetings aren’t showing up in your calendar, you may have been added after they were scheduled. Check your Class Team to find the meeting links.

For more information visit: Student guide to accessing class Teams Meetings.

Users signing in to Teams meeting may notice the Guest tag next to their name and that they do not have access to some features. This happens when Teams does not recognize UNCG login information. The most common reason for this error is that the browser’s login information hasn’t been refreshed.

For information on how to correct this issue visit: Troubleshoot Teams is listing me as a guest.

UNCG Microsoft 365 accounts can host large virtual meetings and webinars with Microsoft Teams up to 20,000 participants. Learn more about the number of participants you can host and their capabilities at: Hosting Large Events.

In Microsoft Teams, chats and files shared within a channel are only accessible to team members by default. This makes channels ideal for private meetings where you need to keep materials confidential like IRB meetings, focus groups, meetings subject to HIPAA and/or FERPA regulations, etc., and any scenario where information needs to be limited to a select group.

For more information visit: Securing Confidential Meetings in Teams