Microsoft Teams for Faculty and Staff
Overview
The below page contains critical resources and training suggestions for our Faculty and Staff to facilitate remote instruction and general productivity.
Microsoft Teams is Microsoft's new enterprise communication tool. Teams combines persistent chat rooms, video/voice, file sharing, meetings, and many other features into one application. Teams is beneficial for meetings, class sessions, and remote communications. We recommend using it for any conversational or video conferencing application.
Ensure that you are setting roles correctly in your meetings. Refer to this link for more information on meeting roles and modifications. This topic is also covered in the instructional video below "Creating and Configuring Meetings".
You may also experience attendees being placed in a lobby. This will occur for anyone outside of USF entering a meeting. To allow a guest into a meeting, just click admit on the lobby notice that appears on your screen.
Microsoft Teams Videos
- Accessing Teams and Signing In
- Creating and Configuring Meetings
- Joining and Conducting a Meeting
- Accessing and Managing Your Meeting Recording
Microsoft Teams Meeting Safety and Best Practices
Click here to download the guide for Microsoft Teams meetings.
How do I access Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams is accessible via your web browser, Android or iOS device, or desktop client available on both Windows and Mac operating systems. We recommend testing out all available options to determine the method that best suits your productivity requirements.
Essential links for quick set-up
Notifications
Notifications in Teams are off by default. To set them up, click here.
Training for Microsoft Teams
You have several options for self-paced training available for Microsoft Teams.
- LinkedIn Learning - LinkedIn Learning is available to you through MyUSF under the 'Learning and Teaching Tools' tab.
- Microsoft Teams Video Training
- Personalize Student Learning
- Office 365 Training Center
- Office 365 Quick Starts
- Teacher Training Packs
Accessing Teams
Login using your netid@usf.edu.
- Web Browser - visit https://teams.microsoft.com and sign in with your USF email address.
- Mobile Application - Visit https://aka.ms/getteams and select the version that works for your device.
- Guest Experience - Click here for documentation of the Guest Teams experience.
Help for Teams
- Creating a Team
- Create Join Link
- Add a student to a Class Team
- OneNote Class Notebook
- Meeting Scheduling
- Note that students, by default, will be presenters. Be certain to change this via invitations.
- Call test and audio settings
- Teams for Education
What can I do with Teams?
Teams allows diverse and remote groups for collaborate for a variety of reasons. We heavily encourage utilizing this to ease your transition to a remote learning environment. Read further for capabilities and documentation.
Access and Productivity
Scheduling and hosting meetings
3rd party integrations and applications
Security and Compliance within Teams
If you are unable to solve your issue with this knowledge base article, please contact the USF IT Service Desk by calling (813) 974-HELP (4357) or emailing help@usf.edu.
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