This article will cover how to create a meeting inside Blackboard using Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams meetings can be set up for virtual/web-based live class sessions as well as virtual office hours.
In order to create Teams Meetings, you will first need to Enable Microsoft Education in your UCV course.
Click to open Microsoft Education in the Details and Actions panel on the right hand side of your Blackboard course.
You will be prompted to log in every time you click on Microsoft Education, even if you are already logged into Microsoft. If prompted, use your [email protected] email and password along with MFA.
Select Teams Meetings from the tools you have enabled in Microsoft Education.
Enabling Microsoft Education creates a Teams Class. You do not have to activate your Teams Class to set up Teams Meetings in Blackboard.
Select New meeting.
If you have an immediate unscheduled meeting, you can also click the drop down for a Meet now option. This is not as common, but can be useful for on the spot student requests to meet. For regular live class sessions, it is recommended to schedule all meetings using the New Meeting button.
1. Provide a meeting Title.
2. Manually type in names to Add required attendees -or-
3. To add all students, select Add entire class*
4. Provide the date and start and end time for the meeting
5. Make recurring** for meetings that happen regularly, such as weekly live class sessions.
6. Text box to Type the details of this new meeting.
7. Select Save.
*While there is a checkbox option to allow anyone in the class to join, adding all student to the new meeting(s) will show up on instructors and students Teams and Outlook Calendars. For more information on how to manage Teams, please visit IT's Microsoft Teams page.
Your created meeting(s) will appear in the list of upcoming meetings. There are also tabs for My meetings (any in which you are the organizer or for students, any in which they are invited), as well as Previous meetings.
There is a button to join any created meetings. If you need to share a join link to guests outside of the course, or to a student user having trouble authenticating, you can click the three dots next to the join button to copy the join link.
The Attendance tab provides meeting attendance data. This does not directly integrate in Blackboard Gradebook. However, if you wish to grade attendance, you can use the Attendance list and mark attendance using the Blackboard Attendance tool.
Meetings cannot be edited or deleted from the Blackboard integration. To edit or delete a scheduled meeting, go to your Teams or Outlook calendar. Doing so will update the meeting in the Blackboard link, as well.