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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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vladimir_msk
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Apr 17, 2020

angela_salesian 

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. 

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stefanos1912
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May 24, 2020

vladimir_msk 

 

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

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