Microsoft Teams is Carleton’s administrative web and video conferencing tool, supported by ITS Service Desk. Microsoft Teams is available to all faculty, staff, and students under Carleton’s Microsoft License Agreement. For more information about Teams at Carleton, visit the associated ITS support page. On the support site, you can also request a Team site: https://carleton.ca/its/teams/. For additional questions about the use of setup of Teams, please contact: its.service.desk@carleton.ca
Teams can also be used inside of D2L Brightspace. A class “Team” can be created for learners and instructors via the addition of the Teams widget on the Brightspace course homepage. To find out if Teams makes sense for your class, or to explore the use of Teams in Brightspace, please submit a request to the TLS Support Team: tlssupport.carleton.ca.
NOTE: While the TLS Support Team does provide basic support to add Teams to Brightspace courses and can answer some basic questions, TLS does not provide training, document, support or troubleshooting for Teams in Brightspace. For a complete list of supported Educational Technology Tools at Carleton, please visit: Supported Ed Tech Tools.
While Teams can be used as a virtual classroom tool, this web conferencing tool is better suited for small group meetings and one-on-one interactions with students. Teams sites may also be appropriate for collaborative document sharing and editing. Zoom, however, is the recommended tool for teaching classes synchronously.
For a comparison table of Carleton’s web conferencing tools, including best practices and the differences between Teams and Zoom, visit the Web Conferencing at Carleton page.
Using Teams (Inside of Brightspace)
Access Microsoft (MS) Teams in Brightspace by adding the MS Teams widget to your course homepage. Adding the MS Teams widget will automatically add the members of the classlist to the MS Teams site and an MS Teams folder will be created for the course. The MS Teams folder can be accessed either from within Brightspace, by selecting the MS Team link in the widget or by logging in to Teams directly.
Using MS Teams, students can work collaboratively on shared documents both synchronously and asynchronously.
Instructors might use MS Teams for:
- Shared collaboration on documents,
- Group activities such as collaborating on PowerPoint slides or presentation materials,
- Shared database creation using MS Excel,
- Class whiteboard activities for collective brainstorming.
For information on how to set up the MS Teams widget in Brightspace, visit the Customizing your Homepage and Widgets page.
| NOTE: MS Teams is a technology that is administered by ITS at Carleton. For technical support with MS Teams outside of Brightspace, please contact the ITS Service Desk. |
| NOTE: The MS Teams widget will not appear if the course classlist is empty. |
Using Teams (Outside of Brightspace)
Helpful links to Microsoft Support documentation for use of MS Teams are included below. See also the ITS support page,Office 365 – Microsoft Teams.
NOTE: The process for using Teams in Brightspace will be different than what is indicated in the Microsoft Support Documentation below. The Microsoft Support documentation is most useful for using Teams outside of Brightspace, although there is some overlap.
If you need course support, or would like to discuss the use of Teams in your Brightspace site, please submit a request to the TLS Support Team: tlssupport.carleton.ca
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