eLearning at Hagley College

Teams meetings are great and there are a few settings which can be adjusted so that the experience is positive for all. This post offers a few suggestions for:  Setting up meetings properly Using the Lobby Requesting Participants to Join Muting Participants Disabling Chat Using Captions Setting up your meeting: Make sure you set the meeting up so that you have control over it. Once you have created the meeting, edit the meeting options by clicking on the meeting in your calendar and click meeting options: Here you can alter the ability for the students to present/share their screen ( and the ability to mute you! ) so ensure you select ' Only me " for the Who can present option:  You may also like to remove the ability for students to begin the meeting without you via the lobb bypass option. Select only me if you don't want students to begin without you.  Using the Lobby: If you set the meeting up so that only you can bypass the lobby (which prevents people joining the meet

  Setting up for the Video Call: Use the Teams Calendar to  schedule your video call with your class .  Prepare your lesson as you normally would planning a range of online and offline tasks for students. You may like to use the Class Notebook inside Teams to create a page of work to distribute to your students.  Click here  for details about using the Class Notebook in Teams for remote teaching. Immediately before the video call: About 10mins before the Video call, go to your  Class Team  or  Teams Calendar  and Click “ Join ” in the scheduled meeting.  Once you have selected your meeting join options, you may like to  blur your background  by clicking the  ellipsis : Ensure you are set up to share your computer screen - close any programmes and internet tabs which are not relevant to student learning. Keep your microphone and camera on throughout the video call . Keep vocal energy & eye contact (at the camera lens) and try to speak clearly. Click on the participants button: Here

 1. Share to Teams: This feature allows you to share an email directly to a class Team or Team Chat message. I use this feature with the weekly Careers email, which I share to my Tutor Group Class Team:  This creates a new post in the Post section of the Tutor Group Team.  2. To Do List: The To-Do list is great for keeping track of tasks. Tasks can be given due dates and reminders and files can be added to tasks too. To-Do is now well integrated in to the Outlook online version and appears in the top banner:  To Do list tasks can be entered directly, or you can highlight text within an email message and select 'create task'. This will automatically create a To Do list task.  It may also be handy to download the Microsoft To Do list app to your mobile phone so that tasks are accessible across two devices. 3. @mentions in Outlook: When creating an email, if you @mention the person who you want to receive your email in the text, this will automatically list them in the To row: 4.