Record a Meeting in MS Teams

Last updated on October 15, 2025

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.

Directions:

Create a Recording

1. Open Microsoft Teams on your computer.
2. Start a Teams Meeting.
3. Click on the 3-Dots Icon on the toolbar of the Meeting Window.
4. Hover over Record and Transcribe.
5. Click Start recording in the drop-down menu that appears.
6. Select the correct Spoken Language of the video.
7. Click Confirm.
8. Click on the 3-Dots menu again when you are ready to end the recording.
9. Hover over Record and Transcribe.
10. Click on Stop recording in the drop-down menu.
11. Click on Stop recording in the pop-up menu to confirm the recording should be stopped.
    • The Recording will now be saved. It will be saved to the Files section of the Team the meeting took place in, or to your personal files if the meeting didn’t take place in a Team.

Find a Recording (Created in a Meeting in a Team)

1. Click on Teams on the left-hand side of the screen.
2. Click on the Team where the recording was created.
3. Click on Files tab at the top of the screen, below the Search bar.
4. Click on the Recordings folder.
5. Find the Recording.

Find a Recording (Created in a Meeting Outside of a Team)

1. Click on OneDrive on the left-hand side.
2. Click on My Files on the left..
3. Click the Recordings Folder.
4. Find the Recording.

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 embed a recording directly from MS Teams into Canvas.