How to activate a Microsoft 365 Class Team?

Overview

Microsoft Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, meetings, files, and apps together in one place. "Class Teams" are automatically created every semester from Canvas class rosters. Instructors are automatically added with the Owner/Teacher role for their courses. A Class Team is not automatically visible to the students enrolled. The instructor must "Activate" the Class Team in order for students to start using the service.

• Is Activation Required?
• Activation Instructions
• Links to Microsoft MS Team Education Resources

Note: a unique Class Team is created for every course section. Each section will need to be activated individually.

Is Activation Required?

No, activating a Microsoft Class Team is *not* required. Most class collaboration should be done in Canvas and activating a Class Team will not affect a Canvas class. Historically, a Class Team was created for Microsoft Stream video sharing which can now be done directly within Canvas.

Activation Instructions

Additional information on the activation process is available from Microsoft here.

Sign-in to Microsoft Teams at teams.uidaho.edu or using a desktop client.

There will be Class Teams available which match Canvas courses. Example: SP23 - ENGR101-01: Introduction to Engineering (Tesla)

Selecting the Class Team may display an introduction dialog "Your class awaits" and will then display the empty team with a button to "Activate" the Team at the top.

Selecting the Activate button will display an additional warning that this step cannot be undone.

Once the Team is activated you will be able to start communicating with students in Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft Teams Resources for Instructors and Students

Microsoft has many resources for both instructors and students. Below are links to common tasks and best practices to use MS Team Classroom for instruction.

• Microsoft Teams Overview
• Microsoft Teams Getting Started
  • Get organized in you class team
  • Share and organize class team files
  • Meetings, chats and posts
  • Assignments and grades in your class team
• Microsoft Teams Assignments
  • Create an Assignment in Microsoft Teams
  • View and navigate your assignments (teacher)
  • View and navigate your assignments (student)
  • Assign work to multiple classes (This will help if you have MS Teams for each section you teach)
  • Distribute quizzes to students using Assignments
  • Track student progress in Grades tab (teacher)
  • Track your progress in Grades tab (student)
  • Review, return and turn in assignments with the feedback loop
  • Turn in an assignment (for students)
• Microsoft Teams Manage
  • Best practices for class meetings (educator and student)
  • Mute a single student
  • Mute multiple students
  • Create read-only files for students or other team members
  • Create channels for student project groups
  • Use OneNote Staff Notebook
  • Use OneNote Class Notebook
  • Set up a Class Notebook in Teams using existing content (from another MS Team)
  • Using Class Notebook to work in student groups