Microsoft Teams
Conferencing for Teachers & Students
What Can I do with Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams can be used for classroom communication and collaboration.
Teachers can share material as well as use Teams for chatting and as exit tickets.
Collaborate and present
Guest speaker
Virtual book club
Virtual field trip
How Do I Access Microsoft Teams?
Go to www.office.com
Click Sign In
Your username for students and teachers is your: fpsusername@fairfieldschools.org
Your password for students and teachers is your: normal network login
Once you are logged in both teachers and students click Teams from the App list.
Once inside of Teams - Teachers and Students Select Teams from the left menu and choose the class you are working with.
You must Activate your courses in order for students to see them.
Once in the Teams app - Click the Teams icon from the left menu as shown below.
Go to the Class you would like to use for your Team
At the top it says "Your class isn't visible to students yet. Activate" - Click Activate
Students will see your class on their list of classes once they go to Teams in Microsoft.
Within Teams, there are many features:
Upload Class Materials
Set up Class Materials
Chat
Upload Videos
Give Praise to Students
Add Stickers, Giphy Files, and more
For Higher End Users: Check out how this professor has integrated multiple parts of Office 365 into his classroom
Take photos to upload
Take pictures of handwritten math problems and upload
Use channels to add notes stored for all students
Embed and share notebooks and lecture notes
And many more!