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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
I'm sure by now you've powered through the issue, but I wanted to chime in and give the "low-down" on what makes MS Teams work:
(1) You need to have an office account. And yes, you have to be logged into it. It's not just for email, it's also for all the additional services connected to Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365): OneDrive, SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WhiteBoard, and....Teams.
(2) All of these services (except SharePoint, which is 100% web based), work BEST when the actual app is used. You can run many (all?) of them from inside a browser, but downloading and installing an app will always give you the best experience, best performance, and most features. The bad part about that is that is also means the usual .... "update now" message, because many of these are always being updated, so you need to stay on top of your updates - no deferring updates for 3 weeks!
(3) To create a meeting, you can go to either the outlook calendar (you read that right "outlook", not "teams") or the calendar built-into Teams. As it turns out, they're basically the same thing. Yes - SAME calendar, different names. When you create a meeting in one it shows up in the other, and vice versa.
(4) when you want a video meeting ("Teams meeting"), just make sure you toggle that switch. There's one in Outlook (locations vary based on what version you're using - see below for advice on where to find it) and another one in the Teams calendar view also.
(5) for "instant" meetings, you can start them in the upper right ("Meet"->"Meet Now") and then type in the addresses of people you want to join you in the meeting. This will start a meeting with you in it, and then you can instantly invite others to join. This only works if the other folks are using Teams at the time and are logged in with the same email credentials as the ones you're inviting. For example, if you invite "TomSmith@mySchool.edu" but he's currently logged in as "TomSmith@goofygoofoffemailaccount.gov", then he's not going to see your instant invite. After all, Teams will think he's offline ('cause he is...).
To find those buttons on Teams, my advice is as follows:
go to youtube.com (don't google this!). Then search in youtube using the following terms: "How to ........ in Microsoft Teams [year] on [Windows 10, iPad, iPhone, Android, etc]." Fill in the ".....". I guarantee that you will find at least 50 videos, and some will only be a couple of minutes long, and at least 3 will actually be in English.
Also, my best bonus advice: Don't wait for the last minute to have an online meeting. It's all about preparation. The night before, make sure your software is updated, make sure you have all your files & links & participant addresses lined up in Teams, etc. Have a backup plan: Switch to other gear, another device, etc. Cell phones WILL WORK in a pinch, but again it helps to have the app preloaded and perhaps even set up with your account. It kind of sucks when you're 5 minutes late for a 40 minute session and you're unable to remember your password or are waiting for the darn antivirus filter to let you download the app you need to install! Duh. Should have done that an hour ago (or last night)!
Regards & good luck. And no, you should not bounce your forehead on that tablet. 😞