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Microsoft Teams - iPad app
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
Hi, seems I’ve managed to solve this problem.
I’ve got my WINDOWS PC with teams desktop version and an IPad Pro with its teams mobile version.
So, I start a meeting on my PC since you can always do that and THEN JOIN the ongoing meeting on my iPad by clicking the JOIN button in the chat ( on your iPad you just go to Teams, find the team you need and press JOIN in the chat). As a result you can use both devices linked to the same Teams account at the same time. Just remember to mute one of them to avoid the echo.
Now, you should start sharing YOUR SCREEN ON IPAD. I use GoodNotes, which acts as a whiteboard (or blackboard haha). Or you may use a different app or just Apple Notes, whatever works best for you. As soon as you start writing something on your IPad, everyone in the meeting can see that. And on your PC screen you can also see what you are sharing with the rest of the group, thus you can use your iPad as a digital board.
Hope that helps.
Hi this solution worked for me perfectly 10 days ago (starting the meeting from Mac, participating from iPad and sharing the ppt and virtual blackboard from iPad), then I made the mistake to update my iPad Pro to iOS 13.5 and now when I start sharing my screen, other participants just see my user profile image (see attachment).
For anyone who may have also this problem, I found that connecting with Mac from browser (I use Chrome) and then sharing from iPad... it works!
Hope it may help
best
Let me start with a disclaimer; I am a greenhorn to MS Team so my observation may be mistaken. I understand you cannot start a meeting today here and now on MS Teams on the Ipad (iOS). If most of the other Apps can initiate a Meeting on the Ipad, I do not see why it should be any different with Microsoft Teams for iPad Pro; it may be ok to start a meeting on the PC then move to the Tablet, but often we are not lugging with both equipment. If I am right then Microsoft needs to up its game on this, it should have equal of not more capable resources than Zoom and the ilk.
The_Maruti If you use the work around I talk about earlier in the thread, and do it just once, then after that you will be able to initiate Meetings from the iPad app. Hope this helps.
Thanks! You have redeemed a distressed soul; I will give it a shot and share my experience.
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
but do it help with creating and starting meeting directly from channel page?
stephen1729 did you miss Astro how does going to files creat a meeting link?
Hi
I work in the college sector and I'm trying to get Teams to start an ad hoc meeting with some students for revision practice. I'm having the same problem as you did. I tried your suggestion but the file 'Class Materials' didn't appear under the team 'Files'. I'm guessing it's because you have set up your class team in a certain way?
Thanks
If it is an ad hoc meeting, do you need the whole apparatus of a Team for the class. You could just have a Call which includes them all.
I didn’t actually set up my class Teams, the IT Dept did that. But I don’t think they did anything special in the way the Team was set up, so I doubt it was that.
I was hoping Microsoft would have fixed the problem with the iPad app by now anyway.
Sorry I can’t be more help.
Stephen
