Create a Post for Students in Teams

Have an activity/instruction on the ‘posts’ page so students can do something while you’re setting up your devices. If there are technical difficulties the students have work they can continue with.  

1. Open Class Team 
2. Connect laptop to Airplay and project onto whiteboard/screen 
3. Position your laptop so that the camera faces the class. You can also position yourself to be in the line of the camera so students at home can see you and the class. 
4. To start the meeting click on Meet button at the top of the screen and select meet now or if you’ve already scheduled the meeting go to the calendar and click join.  

Click on the Chat button to have the chat box open in the meeting (this will appear on the right side of the screen).

The students at home can use the is to communicate with you and ask questions if they have any. The order of questions will be visible to you and the class.

Control what students can do by clicking on participants.

You can MUTE ALL in one click; or select specific students that you may want to share their screen, make a presenter, disable their microphone, or remove them completely from the call - if they are being disruptive and at the end of the lesson so they don’t hang around having a private chat.

Example:

Step 1: Using your iPad, open Teams and join the meeting.

Step 2: Make sure you ADD the device when prompted, do not transfer (transfer will result in the laptop being disconnected.

Step 3: iPad should be muted / mic is OFF and volume down

Step 4: Once your iPad is connected, click on the share content button

Step 5: Select share screen (audio off)

Step 6: Click to Start Broadcast

Step 7: Open the app/program you want to work from – eg., OneNote, Explain Everything, PPT, Word etc). The iPad screen will now project to the screen and the students at home.

Step 8: You can Stop the Broadcast by going back to teams on the iPad and click stop presenting

Optional

At this point, students in the physical classroom can join the team meeting to contribute to the chat. Their audio and camera must be turned OFF to avoid sound feedback.

Students at home and in the class can ask questions in the chat.

Students in the class can assist the teacher in keeping track of the questions while they're busy teaching.

This feature is great when you are teaching a key concept that you want the students to refer to again later. It also means students who are absent can see what they missed.

NB: You can only record from the device that isn’t connected to airplay (eg., iPad)

Step 1: On the iPad, click on the … and select Start Recording

Step 2: Next Share Screen / Start Broadcast (follow steps outline in previous section), open app (e.g., OneNote) annotate on the page to show your working (e.g., mathematics equation).

The recording will capture your voice and whatever is on the screen.

Step 3: To Stop Recording – go back to Teams on the iPad > … > Stop Recording

Step 4: The recording will appear in the meeting chat and in the posts. Recordings are also saved to a folder in the files section of the team called” Recordings”

If you are doing group work with the class, you can use breakout rooms to allow students working from home to work together.

• Breakout rooms can be set up manually or automatically.
• Students can’t access the breakout rooms until you open them.
• You can open and close rooms more than once during a session or move participants between rooms.
• Only meeting organisers using the desktop versions of Teams (Windows or Mac) can create and manage breakout rooms.

Learn how to do this here: Breakout Rooms

Give Permission for Teams to access apps:

1. Open System Preferences via the Apple
2. Click on Security
3. Press Touch ID or penter assword to unlock Security and Privacy settings 
4. Click on Security
5. Scroll through the apps to check that Teams is ticked