Record a Meeting in MS Teams

Last updated on March 12, 2026

Recording your meetings in Teams can create a helpful resource for you and your students. Your students can refer back to a lecture when studying for a test, for instance, or an absent student can watch the recording of a class that they weren’t able to attend. Fortunately, recording a meeting in Teams is a simple process. Please inform everyone in the meeting that it will be recorded before you start recording. Also, ensure that you, the instructor, are starting and stopping the recordings. If a student starts the recording, it can cause issues regarding the location where the file will be saved.

This tutorial will go over how to record a meeting as well as how to find the recording afterward.

To learn how to download a recording and upload it to Yuja for auto-captions and embedding, please continue to our Upload a MS Teams Recording to Yuja and Generate Auto-Captions tutorial.

Or see our Record a Teams Meeting and Share it with your Students tutorial to learn how to adjust recording settings and embed a recording directly from MS Teams into Canvas.

Directions:

Create a Recording

1. Open Microsoft Teams on your computer.
2. Start a Teams Meeting.
3. Inform everyone present that the meeting is about to be recorded.
4. Click on the 3-Dots Icon on the toolbar of the Meeting Window.
5. Hover over Record and Transcribe.
6. Click Start recording in the drop-down menu that appears.
   • Teams will automatically start a transcription of the video when you record it. To have Teams transcribe the video without recording, click Start Transcription.
7. Select the correct Spoken Language of the video.
8. Choose what to record.
9. Click Confirm.
10. Click on the 3-Dots menu again to view the transcript.
11. Hover over Record and Transcribe.
12. Click View Transcript to view a live transcript of the video.
    • Click Switch to live caption from the Transcript panel to turn on live captioning for participants.
13. Click on the 3-Dots menu again to stop recording.
14. Hover over Record and Transcribe.
15. Click on Stop recording in the drop-down menu to stop recording the meeting.
16. Click Stop in the pop-up menu to confirm the recording and transcript should be stopped.

Find a Recording

Find a recording through the Meeting directly

1. Open MS Teams.
2. Click Teams on the left-hand side of the screen.
3. Click on the Team where the recording was created.
4. Locate the Meeting that was recorded in the General Channel.
   • If the Meeting was not created through a Teams Class, locate the video through the calendar, and click Chat from the pop-up window. The recording will be under the Chat feature.
5. Click See details under the meeting.
6. Click the Video to open the video to watch or download.
   • To change the expiration date, edit the video, or edit captions, don’t click on the video. Instead, hover over the Expires date under the video, and click Change from the pop-up window.

Find a recording through OneDrive

1. Click on OneDrive from the left-hand side of the Teams Screen.
2. Click Media on the left under Browse files by.
3. Click on the Recording.
   • The date will be above the recordings.
   • This will open the recording through sharepoint in a browser window in Microsoft Streams.
     • If you are using the MS Teams App, click Watch in browser on the top right of the screen.