Tag: Teams Meetings

Teams Meeting Co-Organisers

Scheduling meetings for others? Want to give someone else control of the meeting?

 

Set up Co-Organisers to control the meeting and lobby even if you can’t attend.

 

How?

  1. Schedule your meeting as normal.  Ensure that you have invited at least your proposed co-organiser (must be inside the organisation) and any presenters.
  2. Go to Meeting Options
  3. Look for the co-organiser setting and click on the drop down arrow to select the co-organiser.

    Screenshot of meeting options for selecting co-organiser

  4. Save your meeting options.

 

When will this be available?

Microsoft have started to roll this out and expect it to be fully available by the end of March 2022.

Office 365 Training – New Dates for 2021 / 22

Flipped open silhouette of a head with Office 365 app icons

 

New sessions are now bookable for the following Office 365 courses.

 

Getting Started with Office 365

This course covers the basics of Office 365 to help you get started and be confident using One Drive for Business, Office Online and to work with colleagues on shared documents.

Running at 10am on the following dates:

6 December 2021
5 January 2022
3 February 2022
1 March 2022
7 April 2022
3 May 2022
8 June 2022
4 July 2022

Click here to book.

Collaborating with Microsoft Teams

Do you want to know how to do more with Microsoft Teams, collaborating with your colleagues, working in a single multifaceted workspace?  Come and find out how to do more with Microsoft Teams.

Running on the following dates (usually at 2pm):

6 December 2021
5 January 2022
3 February 2022
3 March 2022 (10am)
7 April 2022
5 May 2022 (10am)
8 June 2022
4 July 2022

Click here to book.

OneNote

Join the OneNote training to find out how you can replace the paper notebooks, search for content and use the “swiss army knife” app that is included in your Office 365 subscription.  In addition to looking at personal Notebooks, the course touches on the use of Class and Staff notebooks for teaching and management purposes.

Spaces are available on the following dates:

9 December 2021
13 January 2022
15 February 2022

Book a place here.

Power Automate

This introductory course will help you get started with Power Automate – understanding the basics and how to build automation for personal productivity.  Automation can help with saving time and reducing errors by removing the human element from repetitive task processing.  Build it once, reuse the process time and time again in a repeatable method.

Courses are running on the following dates:

11 January 2022
11 April 2022
14 July 2022

Book a place here.

Webinars

Available on demand most Tuesdays from 2.45pm.

Learn about the new Webinar feature in Teams and attend the training so that you can then request the Webinar feature for your account.

Book a session here.

 

New ways to Share Content in Microsoft Teams meetings

With continued remote and hybrid working, Microsoft have introduced new methods for sharing content into meetings in Microsoft Teams.

 

These new features are rolling out now and should be fully available by mid October 2021 at the latest.

 

You can now share content from an additional camera – so if you have a plug in USB web cam you can use it as an alternate visualiser to deliver details from a document into a meeting.  Clearly for best results you will want to find a means to ensure that the camera is held at a steady and regular position – so mounting using a clip or bulldog clip will keep a fixed position for the camera.

 

You can also use the build in webcam on a laptop to project a physical whiteboard into the meeting.

 

To enable and use these features go to the share option in your Teams meeting …

 

Share tray options in a Teams Meeting

 

Select “Content from camera” …

 

Then choose what you want to present into the meeting …

 

Content from Camera sharing dialogue

Teams Meetings – Presentation Modes

Two new modes for presenting content and video into a Microsoft Teams meeting will be introduced during late August and early September.

What is available?

  1. Side by side mode – allows the video of the presenter alongside the content being delivered – similar to the effect that has been available in a live event.
  2. Reporter mode – superimposes the content over the shoulder of the presenter’s video in a similar fashion to that of a newsreader in a broadcast.

Meeting presenters:

  • Can customize the background image before starting the presentation
  • Can easily enable or disable the video feed during the presentation from the sharing bar

 

Timing

These new presentation features are rolling out now and will be available to users by mid September ’21 at the latest.