New features coming to Microsoft Teams EDU

Microsoft Teams Education is having some big features waiting for release, below you will find a listing with their release dates: Run engaging classes through online meetings Large Gallery view (aka 7x7) – expected in August (New) Together Mode – expected in August (New) Dynamic view – expected in August (New) See more videos on iOS or Android devices – expected in August (New) Attendance Report post-meeting download – expected in early September (New) Whiteboard in Teams features – available now (New) Digital Whiteboard without student access – available now (Update) Teams meetings now 300 interactive participants – available now (New) Teams meetings up to 1,000 interactive participants – coming in the last quarter of 2020 (Update) Virtual Breakout rooms – no later than early Q4 2020 Maintain student safety with control of meetings and classrooms (New) Hard Audio Mute – expected in early September (New) Control when students can join meetings – expected in August (New) Students Wait in Lobby – available now (New) Custom video background policy – available now (New) Delete cross posts – available now Easily Deploy and manage Teams for your school or institution (New) GradeSync to OneRoster API – expected in August (New) Group policy assignment – coming soon (Update) SDS adding back team creation– expected in August (New) Educator-led team creation – expected in August (New) Early Class Access API – expected in August Do more with Assignments in Teams (Update) View assignments across all classes (again) – expected in August (New) Link thumbnail preview – expected in August (New) Anonymous Grading/Marking – expected in August (New) Assignment settings – expected in August (New) Four additional overall improvements – expected in August (New) New Assignment languages supported – available now Keep learners engaged and collaborating in the classroom (New) Class Materials on Android – available now (New) New Turn-in celebrations – expected in August (New) D2L’s Brightspace Course Connector – expected in August Nurture social and emotional wellbeing outside of the classroom (New) Reflect messaging extension – expected in early August If you don’t know how to create Teams or Channels, please read the following blog posts: Continue reading

Title Up Your Teams Group Chats

Did you know you can title up your chat to get a clear visual about the topics discussing? There is only one requirement to achieve this: at least three persons in chat. How to achieve Start a new chat, invite 2 other persons to join and click the downwards arrow to see extra options. Enter the group name for the chat: You can also use the search windows to find your named chat Continue reading

How to put your Poly x30 in Microsoft Teams mode

Hi All, After a small break back in to blogging again. I also created a quick video of the steps below: First of all check your firmware > latest version: 3.1.1-216109 (writing on 2020-06-09). Go to General Settings > Provider The System will now be rebooted, the admin password will be changed back to default (last 6 digits of the serial number). After login you will need to set the provider again to Microsoft Teams because the Poly x30 (or x50) is restarted to factory default. Continue reading

How to use your Poly Trio800 with the Poly x30

Did you know you can pair your existing Poly Trio 8800 with your new Poly x30? With this feature you are able to control your Poly x30 and you can use the audio (speakers and microphone) from the Trio 8800 for your meetings. I created a quick video of the steps below: Make sure your Trio 8800 is running the latest firmware and set Trio 8800 back to factory default settings. Continue reading

End Microsoft Teams Meeting for all Attendees

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 (…) Now click End Meeting You’ll be asked to confirm. Continue reading

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. /

Optimize Outlook for Microsoft Teams Meetings

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 Select Options. Go to Calendar. With this setting, your meetings will decrease your meetings with 5 minutes. So you’ll have time to join the next one. Continue reading