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angela_salesian
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Mar 23, 2020
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Microsoft Teams - iPad app

Hi all,    Due to the current climate, my workplace (secondary school) is switching to using the Microsoft Office platform to deliver our classes remotely. We currently use windows laptops but bein...
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    stephen1729
    Apr 25, 2020

    AngelaV vladimir_msk 

    I too am a secondary school Maths teacher!

    We have used OneNote for a few years but have started using Teams since lockdown, so we are all on a steep learning curve!

    We had the same problem and our IT Dept came up with something that worked.

    On a PC (or I used Citrix to remote into my school PC desktop as I am iPad only at home) go to the online version of Teams and go to the Team you are trying to use.

    Click on Files and after a minute or two a “Class Materials” folder should be created here (this is as feature of Class Teams and is where you can store files that you want to be read-only to students - like the Content Library in OneNote).

    Then when you go to the iPad app everything should work properly.

    It worked for me, as they say!

    This should mean you don’t need to use PC and iPad together to create and run meetings.

    I too am a big GoodNotes fan.  a lovely app.

    Hope this helps.

    Stephen

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Scott Nourse
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Mar 26, 2020

angela_salesian I am experiencing the exact same frustration- I don’t think it’s possible- which seems bizarre to me.  If I can join a meeting it seems to work great — I can share my screen, run a powerpoint, have live captions,... But for some reason there doesn’t seem to be any way to start a meeting.

 

I can create meetings in the Teams app but it never seems to associate with any sort of video/conference ability.

 

The only workaround I’ve seen is to remote into a Mac, log into Teams in Chrome, go to Calendar, and Click Meet Now.   I can then click the participants button, click the Link  icon and copy the link.  Then I paste the info into Notes which syncs to my iPad,  I click the link in Notes on my iPad which opens in Safari and the teams invite page says I have to download the Teams app for Mac.  I switch Safari to Mobile view, refresh and it gives me the option to open in the mobile Teams app.   I can share the link out to other people to but who knows if they’ll be able to open it?  I can never seem to get the share link from the Teams app..   This seems crazy...

 

There has to be a better way... what am I missing?

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