Erwin Bierens

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End Microsoft Teams Meeting for all Attendees

2020-04-15 1 min read Microsoft Teams     "Erwin Bierens"

As a Meeting organizer you now have the option to end your meetings for all attendees. For security it’s nice to see that you have control as a organizer but also in classrooms this is a great way to make sure your students don’t hang around in your virtual classroom after you’ve left.

To end an active meeting, go to your meeting controls and select More options (…) Meeting controls

Now click End Meeting Meeting controls

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Disable Automatic Startup Microsoft Teams for Linux (Ubuntu)

This how to is written for debian distro based operating systems. During this test i’m using Ubuntu Desktop 18.04.3 LTS.

Disable automatic startup

In case you don’t want to automatically startup Micrsoft Teams you can use the following setting to change this behavior. Go to Menu > Search > Startup Applications preferences.

Here you can disable or remove Teams startup.

Teams disable startup

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Optimize Outlook for Microsoft Teams Meetings

2020-03-23 1 min read Microsoft Teams     "Erwin Bierens"

Proper schedule of your meetings

Are you facing the same issue as i did?

For example: Meetings starting at full hour, and my previous meeting is still ongoing?

There is trick to solve this issue (at least for your own meetings) with this setting.

Go to your File in your Outlook client

Outlook File

Select Options. Outlook options

Go to Calendar. end meetings early

With this setting, your meetings will decrease your meetings with 5 minutes. So you’ll have time to join the next one. end meetings early

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How to create a Channel in Microsoft Teams EDU

2020-03-18 1 min read Microsoft Teams     "Erwin Bierens"

In this how to, I will show you how you can create your extra channel within your Team when you are using the Teams EDU.

Once you have created a team, you’ll get a General channel. This general channel is mostly used for announcements and posting information for everyone to see.

However, you can always create a new channel for specific purposes. You can do this by clicking on the dots next to the team name.

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How to create a Team in Microsoft Teams EDU

2020-03-18 2 min read Microsoft Teams     "Erwin Bierens"

In this how to, I will show you how you can create different types of teams within Microsoft Teams EDU. The following steps will be exaplained below:

  • Click the link at the bottom of the window which says Join or create a Team.
  • Click the option that says Create a Team.
  • Select the right goal of the team.
  • Choose Teams modus for the team.
  • Name the team, and select create.
  • Add people or groups.

How to create a Team

Click the link at the bottom of the window which says Join or create a team. Create Team

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Online lessons with Microsoft Teams EDU

2020-03-18 2 min read Microsoft Teams     "Erwin Bierens"

I will walk you true the following steps to help you to start with remote lessons and get the most out of it.

Invite

Go to the calendar in the left rail of your Teams client. Go To calendar

Click new meeting. Create new meeting

Enter a title and description of your lesson, reservate the timeslot. Add team/channel with students.

Create meeting

When you click send, everyone in the channel will get a notification. The meeting will show also up in the students calendar.

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How to create a Channel in Microsoft Teams

2020-03-17 1 min read Microsoft Teams     "Erwin Bierens"

In this how to, I will show you how you can create your extra channel within your Team.

Once you have created a team, you’ll get a General channel. This general channel is mostly used for announcements and posting information for everyone to see.

However, you can always create a new channel for specific purposes. You can do this by clicking on the dots next to the team name.

Create new channel

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