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Using MS Teams for Teaching and Learning

Using MS Teams for Teaching and Learning

Microsoft Teams is available to all registered University of Aberdeen staff and students.

Teams is not a substitute for the University VLEs – MyAberdeen, MyMBChB, and MyBDS. These VLEs remain the University platforms for resources, materials, assignments, and communication within programmes and courses for teaching and learning. In addition, Teams does not offer a robust system for marking or originality checking so must not be used for written summative assessment.

Microsoft Teams Meetings is replacing the University's previously recommended virtual classroom tool Class Collaborate.  Microsoft Teams Meetings will be available in any course and organisation area of MyAberdeen for online seminars, tutorials, meetings, presentations or group working.

The University recommends the use of Microsoft Teams Meetings to support teaching and collaboration in a virtual classroom, enabling collaboration on documents in real-time, meet and chat, and seamlessly integrates with Microsoft 365 apps. Microsoft Teams Meetings can be used to complement the activities in the VLEs, to provide:

  • One-to-one meetings with students, e.g. personal tutoring.
  • Collaborative working and small group activity, e.g. to support Student Group Projects.
  • Virtual classroom for delivering live presentations and lectures which can include amongst other functions, the use of polling, breakout groups and also collaborative file sharing.
  • Requesting desktop control - MS Teams enables you to request desktop control from someone who is sharing their desktop.
  • View up to 49 participants sharing their video at the same time
    • Note: Teams should not be used for preparing pre-recorded lectures or demonstrations of software. Please use the University’s video platform Panopto and embed Panopto videos in MyAberdeen, MyMBChB, or MyBDS.

If you record a webinar delivered through Microsoft Teams Meetings and want to make it available to students, please download it from the meeting Chat and upload it to Panopto, ready to embed in MyAberdeen, MyMBChB or MyBDS.