As an instructor, you want your course to feel organized, engaging, and easy for students to navigate. Microsoft Teams can be more than a place to host a class meeting or send a quick message. When used intentionally, MS Teams can help you support active learning and collaboration while keeping you and your students connected […]
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Microsoft Teams live captions enhance accessibility by providing real-time, AI-generated text of spoken words during meetings and calls. These captions appear instantly at the bottom of the screen, show speaker identification, and are customizable in font size and color. Follow the instructions below to enable them in your Teams Desktop application. Live captions in Microsoft […]
Canvas has a robust messaging system built into the LMS, but if you prefer to communicate with your students via email, you can use Canvas to generate an email list. You can do this by exporting your gradebook as a spreadsheet and then copying all of the emails at once. This process also excludes students […]
Microsoft Teams is the institutionally-recommended software for hosting live, virtual meetings. You can use MS Teams for virtual class meetings, one-off lectures, meetings with your colleagues, and much more. MS Teams has both an application for your computer and a version that runs in your web browser. Because the application for your computer is more […]
The Roll Call feature in Canvas includes a tool you can use to create seating charts and share them with others. You can use this feature to help create and refer to seating charts for in-person classes. Directions Enable Attendance Tools If you can see Attendance in the left-hand navigation menu of your Canvas course, […]
When you’re grading, it can be helpful to send a quick message to a specific group of students. For example, you may want to send a reminder to all students who have not yet submitted an assignment, or maybe you want to send a message to students who received a certain grade or lower to […]
The lobby is a completely optional virtual “waiting room,” in which meeting attendees wait for you to start the meeting and let them in. Though lobbies make an extra step for students joining a Teams meeting, they also add a layer of security by providing the meeting facilitator control over who enters the meeting and […]
OneDrive is a cloud storage service from Microsoft. It is available to all MSU Denver staff, faculty, and students. This platform can be used to create, upload, store, edit, and share single or multiple files such as Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF’s, and PowerPoint presentations. Files or folders stored in OneDrive can be shared with […]
When you record a meeting in Teams, that recording is automatically available to all of the members of the Class Team the meeting was scheduled in, or any required attendees. Teams does automatically generate a transcript and captions for recordings that you can edit, however, it may helpful to upload the recording to YuJa so […]
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Record a Meeting in MS Teams
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 […]