Teaching Online with Microsoft Teams: Quick Start Guide

Teaching Online with Microsoft Teams: Quick Start Guide

There are multiple courses on how to use Microsoft Teams, but what about how to teach with Teams? Knowledge of learning theories, strategies, activities, engagement and safeguarding all need careful consideration when adapting Teams from its original use as a business platform and applying it in an educational environment.

Do you want to know how to set up your class and keep your Teams page private from students until you are ready to share? Do you want to know the pros and cons of different PowerPoint delivery methods? Do you want to know how to set up Class Notebook and get some suggestions on how to set up activities for students using the collaboration area and teacher only space? How about some ideas on how to differentiate using the files tab, or using some free tech tools to vary your delivery? Are you worried about the lack of privacy when using Microsoft Forms and want to know a quick and easy solution to hide results from students? If you want to know any of this then just click to join and in just a few hours you will feel like a pro when it comes to teaching online.

In this course, I’ll share all my experiences with you in relation to teaching with Teams, in the hope that you can then avoid some of the many pitfalls I fell into when I first started out using Teams. I take traditional teaching activities and show how they can be applied in an online environment, with the hope to inspire and reassure anyone using Teams to teach online. There really is so much more to Teams than meets the eye, so come and join me and take a look!

Tried and tested methods - what works well and what to avoid

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What you will learn

• Tried and tested methods with tips on how to avoid potential problems
• Be ready to teach with Teams in just 90 minutes
• Delivery strategies, breakout rooms, collaboration activities, adding websites and using the files tab to differentiate learning experiences

Rating: 4.75

Level: Beginner Level

Duration: 1.5 hours

Instructor: Laura Nicholson