Microsoft Teams helps you communicate with students, run online sessions, and support collaboration in one shared digital environment. You can use chat, audio and video meetings, screen sharing, channels and shared Microsoft 365 files to keep communication organised, support live teaching and coordinate group work across face-to-face, online and hybrid settings.
- Functions
- Group collaboration | Video / audio
- Via Canvas
- Standalone
- Difficulty of use
- Moderate
Examples of use in your education
Use Microsoft Teams when you want to keep day-to-day course communication in one place and respond quickly to students between teaching sessions.
You can apply this tool in your teaching in several concrete ways:
Quick questions - Use chat to answer short student questions, so small uncertainties do not have to wait until the next class.
Course updates - Post reminders, clarifications or practical updates when students need one clear communication stream around a course or assignment.
Topic channels - Use channels to separate communication by project, theme or group, so discussions and files stay organised by topic.
Targeted follow-up - Use one-to-one or small-group chat for brief follow-up on practical or study-related questions when you have decided that Teams is an appropriate channel for this in your course.
Tip 1
Tell students clearly what kinds of questions belong in Teams and what should go through other channels, so course communication stays manageable.
Tip 2
Use channels for ongoing course or project communication and chat for individual or small-group exchange, so discussions stay tied to the relevant team space and do not become difficult to track.
Use Microsoft Teams when you want to teach live online, hold support sessions or let students participate through video, audio and screen sharing.
You can apply this tool in your teaching in several concrete ways:
Live online teaching - Organise online lessons or extra support sessions in Teams and use screen sharing to present slides, demonstrate documents or explain examples live when students need to join from a distance.
Interactive meetings - Use chat, reactions or breakout rooms when you want students to respond, discuss or work briefly in smaller groups during an online session.
Presentation practice - Let students present in Teams when they need to practise online presentation and screen-sharing skills in a live setting.
Tip 1
Use the desktop version of Teams for teaching sessions whenever possible, because it generally gives a better overview of participants and meeting functions than the browser version.
Tip 2
When you use breakout rooms, give students a very clear short task, expected output and time frame first, and set up the rooms in a way that makes the transition back to the main meeting easy to manage.
How-to videos
How to get started with Microsoft Teams
How to share your screen in Microsoft Teams
How to create and manage Teams channels
Getting started
- You can find all the relevant information on the official site of Microsoft Teams.
Support
In case of educational questions, please contact your learning innovator or web team from your faculty.
In case of technical difficulty, please consult the Microsoft Teams Help Centre.
