Schedule a meeting in Teams

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Tagged: meeting Teams video. Was this article helpful? Yes No. Table of contents Exit focus mode. Table of contents. Note For an overview of making the transition to remote learning and resources to help you get started, see our remote learning home page. Resources to assist educators and students with remote learning are available in Remote teaching and learning in Office Education. Note For details about Teams meetings and conferencing on different platforms, see Teams features by platform.

Important Teams won’t let users schedule meetings or live events when they’re offline or running with limited bandwidth. Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback. In this article. To assign admin roles, see Assign administrator and non-administrator roles to users with Active Directory. See the Meetings in Teams tutorial to learn more about meetings settings. Will I customize the initial meeting policies?

Do I require multiple meeting policies? How will I determine which groups of users get which meetings policy applied?

Read Manage meeting policies in Teams. Read Manage your devices in Teams. Read Meeting room devices and solutions. To create a channel meeting, click on New meeting and type the name of one or more channels into the box that says Add channel.

Remember, in a Microsoft Exchange calendar, all Microsoft Teams Meetings will show a Join button five minutes before a meeting is set to start. After selecting Meet now, you have the option to change your meeting name by typing in the box under Meeting name.

Click the rectangle icon to the right of the link to copy it to your clipboard. The Microsoft Teams Outlook add-in allows people to view, accept, or enter meetings from Teams, or Outlook. To schedule a meeting, open Outlook and click on New Teams Meeting in the calendar view. Add your meeting subject, as well as a location, start time, and end time, then click Send to inform your team. Add guests to your team by selecting Teams and then visiting the team in your list.

This brings up a calendar in the main window. Click the New meeting button at the upper-right corner. Scheduling a meeting in Teams is straightforward and integrates with Microsoft contacts and calendaring. Click image to enlarge it. Then in the fill-in boxes below, choose a date, a start time, and an end time for your video meeting. Click the Save button at the upper-right corner, and your invitation will be sent to these people with a link to join the meeting in Teams.

This covers the basics for inviting people to your video meeting and scheduling it. To the right is an hourly timeline for the day you picked to hold your meeting. Color coding on this timeline indicates when someone you invited will be busy or free throughout the day according to their Outlook calendars. By referring to this timeline, you can find a date and time when all of your invitees will be able to attend your video meeting. These appear below the start and end times that you set for your meeting.

Click one of the suggested times to replace the start and end times that you originally chose. Notes: At this time, category names and colors can only be edited from Outlook. Currently, categories can’t be applied to channel meetings. Next, go to Share to a channel : If you want have your meeting in a channel, select the appropriate channel. Need more help? Expand your skills.

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Set up video meeting in microsoft teams

 

To the right is an hourly timeline for the day you picked to hold your meeting. Color coding on this timeline indicates when someone you invited will be busy or free throughout the day according to their Outlook calendars.

By referring to this timeline, you can find a date and time when all of your invitees will be able to attend your video meeting. These appear below the start and end times that you set for your meeting. Click one of the suggested times to replace the start and end times that you originally chose.

At the bottom of the fill-out form for a new meeting, you can add a message to include in the meeting invite. This is a good place to include a brief meeting agenda especially in an easy-to-read format, such as a table or a bulleted list. Providing a brief meeting agenda helps invitees prepare for the meeting.

If you need to provide a more detailed agenda, you can send a separate email with a document such as a. Or consider hosting your meeting in a Teams channel as described below. There you can post a reply to the message that announces your meeting with the agenda attached.

Hosting a meeting in a channel lets any member of the channel join the meeting. Another way to do this: Go to the team channel where you want to announce this meeting.

At the upper-right corner, click the down arrow next to the Meet button. From the menu that opens, select Schedule a meeting. Please note that the video tutorial refers to inviting external guests via a telephone number. This is not possible at HYMS. External guests invited by email do not need to always wait in the virtual lobby either, depending on your settings.

Please note that you will need a webcam, microphone and speakers to participate in a video meeting. Before the meeting, just tap Background blur in the upper left corner of your screen before tapping Join. For more details about changing your background, see Change your background for a Teams meeting. For example, in a large meeting, you may want to see as many video feeds as you can at one time. The default view when you join a meeting. When there are more than seven others in attendance eight if you’re using a tablet , Teams features the people who have their video turned on and those who speak the most.

Your video feed is always in the lower-right corner of the screen. If you’re using a phone , you can see up to eight featured participant videos and 15 additional people to scroll through at the bottom of the screen. If you’re using a tablet , you can see up to nine featured participant videos and 20 additional people to scroll through at the bottom of the screen. This option’s available when at least nine people have their cameras turned on.

You can view up to participant videos though not all at once. The maximum number of people you can see on your screen at once depends on your device and its software. Together mode is available when a meeting has at least five people in it. To change the scene, tap on the scene name in the bottom left corner of your screen.

To pin someone’s video to your view regardless of who’s talking, press and hold the video you want, then tap Pin. When a video is spotlighted, it’s essentially pinned for everyone in the meeting. For now, you’re not able to start or stop spotlighting on the mobile app, but when someone using the desktop app spotlights a video, that video will be spotlighted for you just like it is for people on the desktop app.

For more info, see Spotlight someone’s video in a Teams meeting. Microsoft Teams. Using video in Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams More Turn your video on or off Before a meeting To turn on your video before a meeting, just select Camera right before you join.

During a meeting You might want to turn your video on and off over the course of a meeting—if you’d prefer people only see you while you’re talking, for example. Change your background If you want to change what appears behind you in your video, you can either blur your background, or replace it entirely with any image you want. Notes: The Change your view feature is available as part of the public preview program and may undergo further changes before being released publicly.

Turn your video on or off Before a meeting To turn on your video before a meeting, just tap Turn video on right before you join. During a meeting You may want to turn your video on or off over the course of a meeting—if you’d prefer people only see you while you’re talking, for example.

Blur your background You can blur your background before or during a meeting if you don’t want others to be able to see what’s behind you. Change your view Customize how you see other people’s video during a Teams meeting.

The following examples show the default Gallery view on different devices. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon.