Activating your Microsoft Class Team

Overview

Within Microsoft Teams, instructors will see a list of pre-populated courses, and can choose to create a Class Team for the course(s).  When a course is chosen for creation, the Class Team is created in an inactive state.  When the instructor is ready for students to view the Class Team, the instructor activates the team.  When active, students enrolled in the course will be able to see the Team and participate in conversations and assignments.  Student adds and drops will be updated each night automatically, keeping the team membership in sync with ISRS.

Creating your Class Team

Course sections will not have a team created automatically.  Instructors need to create the class team from an existing list of courses.

1. Within Microsoft Teams, look for the Join or create a team link or button.  In List view, this appears in the lower left of Teams.  In Grid view, it appears in the upper right.
2. Click the Suggested Classes icon.
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   Note: The icon will only appear if you have class teams that have been imported into Teams that have not yet been created.  If you do not see a class listed, please submit a service request.
3. Select the checkbox next to the appropriate class.
4. Click Create.
5. You will be notified when your class team has been created.

Activating your Class Team

When you have set up your class team and are ready for students to start participating, you will need to ‘Activate’ the team.

1. Click Activate in the banner at the top of the team.