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MS Teams for Virtual classroom
Hi All,
We are in phase 1 of Teams Only adoption/migration plan, and as we were looking at the different personas, we came across this specific need from the L&D team where they would like to leverage Teams as a Virtual Classroom tool.
I have listed down the requirements of the classroom below. I am looking for ideas if someone has already used MS Teams in that capacity.
Requirements | Additional comments | Availability in Teams |
Audio/visual capability (cameras and videos) |
| Available |
Chat capability |
| Available |
Raise Hand/Participant Status info | It is essential to have this feature to avoid situations when people start to talk over each other. L&D team wants to create a comfortable environment where each attendee can speak without any interruption. | Not Available |
Breakout Rooms |
Create small groups with 5 – 6 members and assign different topics to groups. | Not Available |
Poll/Q&A capability |
| Available only in Channel Meetings |
Whiteboard | To brainstorm on ideas | No Native app yet(https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/16938955-add-a-whiteboard) |
Our main pain point is how to incorporate the "Hand Raise" capability in MS Teams Meeting.
- Hi Tanya,
Thanks for sharing. I am really into Teams for Education.
There is currently a user voice open with Microsoft to introduce the raise hand feature.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/35262385-add-a-raise-your-hand-feature-in-meetings
I voted! I would recommend you also vote and try to drive users to sign up to this so it gets Microsoft’s attention. It could be a while before they review it though.
In the meantime for Polls you have the third party app Polly. You should also be able to use Microsoft Forms where there is a quick poll.
And to confirm with Invision on the Whiteboard. I use this a lot and it’s great for mind mapping too.
Hope that helps. If I have answered your question please like the post and mark it as the solution! Hope to help again!
Best, Chris
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I see this experience even in Teams Tuesday moderated by Microsoft where multiple people may talk over each other. I've added the following to the User Voice request:
It would be nice to include a queuing mechanism so that moderator knows who to respond/address when multiple people used the feature.
This is usually an issue with Q&A during online webinars since chat messages can be overwhelming even with a full-time moderator.
Great chart of requirements.
Fred
For the 'whiteboard' requirement, what about adding a tab to the channel for a OneNote page?
- Hi Tanya,
Thanks for sharing. I am really into Teams for Education.
There is currently a user voice open with Microsoft to introduce the raise hand feature.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/35262385-add-a-raise-your-hand-feature-in-meetings
I voted! I would recommend you also vote and try to drive users to sign up to this so it gets Microsoft’s attention. It could be a while before they review it though.
In the meantime for Polls you have the third party app Polly. You should also be able to use Microsoft Forms where there is a quick poll.
And to confirm with Invision on the Whiteboard. I use this a lot and it’s great for mind mapping too.
Hope that helps. If I have answered your question please like the post and mark it as the solution! Hope to help again!
Best, ChrisThanks Chris!
Until we have a native solution for raise hand, could you think of an alternative that we can use to replicate the functionality?
I am trying to reach out to the broader audience via this forum so that I can hear some interesting perspectives!
Just a thought about a 'raise hand' alternative... If you're doing a 'live event' instead of just a regular meeting - it comes with a moderated Q&A feature. That's not exactly the same thing as raise hand, but it could be used as a way for the moderator to control traffic and verbally pass the talking rock to whomever makes sense next.
