MS Teams for teaching guide

Take the time at start of your module to ensure that all your students can access your module Team and understand how it will be used to support their learning.

1. Ask students to download the Teams App for Desktop or Mobile to get started.
2. Sign in with their university credentials.
3. Open the App and select Teams from the menu.
4. Teams that the student is a member of will be available in the centre of the screen. Teams for teaching sites are available under the  Classes menu at the top of the screen. 

• Schedule a session at the start of the term to induct students to the Teams being used on your programme.
• Design an activity on Teams to ensure that all students can access the Teams and become familiar with the key features that you are planning on using to support teaching and learning on your programme.
  • You could use Burning questions, Introductions or best and worst classes to get students familiar with conversations in channels. You will need to add the initial conversation subject line and instructions to get students started.
  • You can ask that each student provide some feedback to at least one other student by using @ mentions.
• Outline to students how you will be using your Team and how you expect them to interact with you.
  • If you have turned the General channel into an announcements channel, explain to students that they won’t be able to post messages to this channel and include it on the channel description.
• Explain what material will be available for students on Moodle and what information will be available on the Team.
• Outline to students how they should communicate with you via both Teams and Moodle and include your timescale for responses to queries.
• Provide students with links on how they can use features like immersive reader in Teams to engage with Teams in a way that meets their requirements.
• Remind students that the Student Charter, code of conduct and policies and IT user regulations apply to communication on Teams.