CIEL is offering training to help instructors get familiar with Teams for the Fall 2024 semester. If you are new to hosting meetings in Teams, we strongly suggest attending the Teams 101 session first as all of the other sessions build on the basic Teams functionality we cover in that session.
Every student will have a Microsoft account that includes Teams and whiteboard access linked to their new @my.viu.ca email address. In order to access all of the features in Teams, students should install Teams on their device and sign in with their VIU account.
Session Descriptions
To sign up for a session, click the View Dates and Sign Up button for the session and select one of the dates and times, or go to the CIEL Event Calendar and select the session in the calendar. All of these sessions are being offered over Teams and you will receive the meeting link in a confirmation email once you have registered for a session.
Teams Meetings 101
Join us for a 30 minute introduction to scheduling and hosting meetings in Teams. In this session we will go over the options you have when scheduling meetings for your course and give a high level overview of the controls and functions available once your meeting begins.
This session is aimed at Instructors who have minimal or no experience hosting meetings in Teams. By the end of this session you should know how to set up a meeting, invite your students, and use essential meeting controls such as enabling or muting your microphone, chat, and screen sharing.
Teaching in Teams: Best Practices
NEW! We have been exploring Teams over the summer and have some top tips and tricks for transitioning your teaching practices to Teams. We encourage you to attend this 60 minute webinar even if you have attended a previous version of this session. This session will focus on practical solutions for facilitating interactive and collaborative class sessions.
Accessibility in Teams
Accessible online teaching is about more than just enabling captions in your Teams meetings. Join us for this 60 minute webinar where we will explore key principles of accessibility and how Teams can help you support learners who come to your class with a variety of needs.
Keep Teams Meetings Secure
Microsoft has built a number of features and functions in Teams to help you ensure that your meeting stays secure. Join us for this thirty minute webinar where we will walk through settings you can choose when scheduling your meeting as well as best practices for sharing meeting links and managing participants to minimize the chance of any unexpected disruptions from participants while you are hosting a meeting or class session on Teams.
This session is for anyone who is running Teams meetings, but will be especially useful for anyone who runs meetings with community members, external colleagues or others who are not part of the VIU Teams license. By the end of this session you will know how to schedule a meeting so all students join as attendees, how to selectively give and take away presenter permissions within a meeting, and a few ways you can quickly shut down participant activity should that be necessary.
Breakout Rooms
Breakout rooms are an essential feature when teaching over video conferencing software. In this session we will look at the key differences between Teams and Zoom breakout rooms and give you some tips for how to set up and manage breakout rooms for use with your students. By the end of this 30 minute session you will know how to set up breakout rooms, assign students automatically or manually to rooms, and communicate with people while they are in their breakout rooms.
Using Teams to Support Group Work
NEW! Teams opens up new options for students in your course to collaborate with group members. In this 60 minute session, we will look at how Teams can help facilitate synchronous and asynchronous collaboration in new ways and talk about when you may want to use Teams vs when you may want to use VIULearn to best achieve your course learning objectives.
Collaborating During Meetings
Teams is designed with collaboration in mind. Join us for this 30 minute session where we will look at some of the built in collaborative features of Teams and talk about how you can use these to engage with your students during online sessions and how your students can use these to work on group projects outside of class time.
This session is meant for anyone who teaches online and wants to engage students in collaborative activities during online meetings. By the end of the session you will know how to upload a shared document, create white boards and Loop elements in the meeting, and how to schedule meetings to allow for asynchronous chat and collaboration between sessions.
Guest Speakers, Community Members, and Colleagues Outside of VIU
VIU students and employees have Teams licenses through VIU. This gives all of our VIU community access to a set of tools and features to allow seamless collaboration and file sharing through Teams. But what about when we need to bring in someone who isn’t a VIU employee or student?
In this 30 minute webinar we will look at which features in Teams work for everyone (even if they don’t have a Teams account) and how you can design your meetings to ensure external users can participate in all meeting activities.
Don’t See What You’re Looking For?
If you can’t attend the session you were interested in or if you have questions about Teams beyond what we’re covering in these sessions, we would be happy to meet with you one on one. You can book a consult from the CIEL website or send us an email at learnsupport@viu.ca. In your request, please include a brief description of what you’re hoping to learn and some dates and times that you’re available to meet so we can connect you with the best member of our team for your needs.