Learn about Microsoft Teams Meeting Features to help you get the most out of your meetings
You may find yourself with a requirement to broadcast an event company wide and a Teams meeting itself just hasn’t got the capacity (limited to 300 participants) you need or perhaps you need more advanced streaming options. Live Events are one-way live streamed events. Attendees can watch the stream as it happens, pause, rewind and …
This feature originated from Education. Teachers would create a class meeting that students would join. They would receive the lesson brief and instructions and the Teacher would then want to group Students together into their own meetings to complete their tasks. A Breakout Room is essentially a linked meeting to a master meeting. They can …
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When you schedule a meeting it’s security policy is created based on the policy assigned to the organiser of the meeting. The policy can be viewed and edited from the Edit Meeting feature in the calendar app in Teams A webpage will open and you will be presented with the security controls that protect your …
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Following on from the post about live captions and the reasons for using them by default, Microsoft Teams meetings also support people with audible disabilities using CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation). How does it work? The provider receives an audio feed. Using a steno machine and cutting-edge software, CART providers “write” on their steno machine using phonetic …
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Accessibility is becoming very important within the communications tools such as Microsoft Teams. You probably didn’t know that Megan you’ve worked with in the office for 5 years is slightly deaf, after all you’ve chatted with her and she has participated in meetings. What you didn’t know was that Megan has been lip reading all …
Have you ever presented in an online meeting your killer idea and then asked for feedback on what participants think and get silence? Or have you sat in someone else’s meeting and thought, “Hell Yes! I totally agree with that” but didn’t want to interrupt or expose your vulnerability to your coworkers incase you look …
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Online meetings can be an unruly place to be, especially in large meetings. Trying to find a gap long enough to unmute your microphone and actually speak is a competitive business! It is probably why so many default to asking their question via meeting chat rather than using their voice… Now in Microsoft Teams meetings …
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Being able to concentrate on the important content in a Teams meeting is critical to your concentration and absorption. Out of the box, Teams does a pretty good job at prioritising the content that is imporant. When video is used, the person speaking is given a prime location within the primary video tile window and …
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With people working from home or public places one of the reasons they do not use video in meetings is because of their lack of privacy. Whatever situation you are working in, if you feel that the location you are in is best not shown on camera, then you can use background blur or replacement …
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Presenting PowerPoints in meetings is an everyday necessity. But how many of you do it wrong? Did you even know you’re doing it wrong all this time? Almost everyone defaults to using screen sharing to present their PowerPoint presentation. Whilst there is nothing inherently wrong with using this method it does impact the quality of …
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