There are two methods of scheduling Virtual Classrooms on Teams.
Review the table below for the benefits and challenges of each option of scheduling your Virtual Classrooms.
| Method | Benefits | Challenges |
|---|---|---|
| Calendar invite via Outlook |
Schedule meetings with different groups of students. Invite external participants, e.g. guest speakers, to your Virtual Classroom and ensure that they have access to key features of the Virtual Classroom. |
Need to manually share the meeting link(s) with students. This should be done via Moodle. The link can also be shared via Teams, email or a SharePoint page. If you do not invite all students to the Outlook invite, it will not appear in the students' outlook calendar or via their Teams calendar. If you do not invite all relevant students to the Outlook invite, then students who did not attend the meeting will not be able to access the recording from OneDrive. We recommend that you map your OneDrive recordings to Echo360 to ensure that the right students can access the relevant recordings. |
| Teams calendar with invite to channel |
Recording of the meeting is automatically available to all relevant students via the channel.
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You need to manually share the meeting link(s) with students. This should be done via Moodle. You cannot schedule Teams meetings in private channels. External participants, e.g. guest speakers, cannot be added to the invitation. You can send them a join link, but they won’t have access to Chat. |
