Office 365 Teams for Faculty
Office 365 Teams is a powerful platform for teaching and learning. You can conduct class meetings, share videos, have students work collaboratively on a presentation, paper, interactive with one another, and more.
To get on Teams, go to CUNY Office 365 page, then click "Log into Office 365" link on the left navigation menu. Log in with your CUNY Login credentials. After you are in Office 365, click Teams app.
- Creating a Team for your course (Skip adding students in step 6 in this tutorial and invite your students to join the class team as described in the tutorial below.)
- Inviting your students to join your class team (We recommend you use the first method, e.g. sending the Team link to your students, instead of creating and sending a code for students to join your class Team. The former requires you to accept students to join while the latter would let anyone with the code to join. Consequently, the former method prevents people not enrolled in your course from joining.)
- Using channels in Teams to organize course content by weeks
Hosting class meetings on Teams
- Creating class meetings in Teams
- Customizing your background in a Teams meeting (You need to use Teams app to use this feature.)
- Using meeting controls
- Using breakout rooms for group work
- Turning on close captioning in Teams meetings (You need to use Teams app and log in to CUNY Office 365 to access this feature.)
- Accessing meeting recordings
Uploading videos to Stream channels
- Sharing videos on Stream with your Teams (If you want to share many videos in a channel in Stream, share the channel instead of sharing videos one by one. Go to the channel. Then click the 3-dot next to the channel name and select Share in Step 1 of the tutorial.)
Collaborating and Working in OneNote Class Notebook
When you create a Class Team for your course, a Class Notebook tab is automatically created on your Team site. In the Class Notebook, there is a space for you to post course materials and resources for your students, a collaborative working space for students to work on a document together, each student has their own notebook only you ad themselves can access.
Other Uses of Class Teams
- Using Teams' Posts page to poll students about class topics and let students to share ideas
- Posting course materials in your class teams
- Assigning students to collaborate on documents such as research papers.
- Creating, reviewing and grading assignments in Teams (Notes:
- If you create assignments and quizzes before students join your class team, make sure to edit the "Assign to" students section when you create the assignment or quiz.
Check the radio button for "Assign to all students added to this class since [date]" where [date] denotes the date when you send the invitation link to your students to join your class team.
- Currently Turnitin is not integrated in our Office 365.
- The calendar feature is also not working due to that our emails are not connected to the Office 365.)
- If you create assignments and quizzes before students join your class team, make sure to edit the "Assign to" students section when you create the assignment or quiz.
- Creating and grading quizzes in your class Teams (On the web page click the tab "Grade your quiz" to see the grading your quiz.)
