From The CIO And Vice President For Enrollment, Marketing, And Communications
Posted: Monday, August 24, 2020Virtual Meetings with MS Teams, IT Pilot for Fall 2020
I am pleased to announce that IT is piloting Microsoft Teams Meetings as an additional web conferencing solution. Blackboard Collaborate remains available as well. Additional infrastructure has been put into place to alleviate previous connectivity challenges with Collaborate. MS Teams Meetings is available now for faculty and staff to hold virtual meetings with colleagues and students.
Important features include supporting up to 300 attendees per meeting, up to 49 webcams visually on screen at one time (only while using the MS Teams Desktop App), calendar integration, and file and screen sharing. To get started, please see the Knowledge Base article explaining how to schedule online meetings with Microsoft Teams and this guide that you can share with your students.
All meeting participants must have an Internet connection to join a Microsoft Teams meeting (call-in option is currently not available). Access to bandwidth varies across the city and state. Individual computer settings can affect the user experience.
Microsoft Teams Meetings is currently the only MS Teams feature that is currently available on campus. The other collaborative features of Teams (e.g., Document sharing, Channels, Tabs) will be implemented at a later date and are not currently available to faculty and staff.
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