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Scheduling Teams meetings in Outlook
Is there a reason you are going back to Outlook? As long as your mailboxes are on O365, you should be able to access your calendar directly from Teams. You could do any of the following
1) Populate the student names on the required attendees portion under Calendar, New Meeting
2) From the Calendar. Click on meet now, join now, copy link, create a normal invitation via Outlook, paste the join URL Info
3) Same steps as 1 but then Choose the channel you want to meet under and all the members in the channel automatically get invited and the invitation is present on the channel chat
You can also just convert your existing Outlook meetings into teams meetings. As an educator myself, I know that not one size fits all so I presented multiple options and folks choose what works best for them. Also, not sure if you've been creating class teams by hand, you might want to look at SDS. Fairly straight forward but does a lot of the roster creation work for you.
Best,
Bp
Hi BP
Thank you for your reply.
Our organisation will continue to use Outlook as its core to our business practice. Teams has been a direct result of the COVID-19 circumstances to facilitate teaching and learning.
We are able to access our calendars via teams but one would think that the functionality to schedule a meeting with a channel would be inherited by Outlook as they're both running off Exchange Online. perhaps Microsoft is rolling out this feature in their road map.
We are SDS synced 🙂
Manually adding each learner as a recipient in Outlook is too labor intensive, reason for us using the Team Channel Email address instead.
I will test your suggestions 2 and 3 to see if I am able to create a more streamlined process for them.
Thank you
