Forum Discussion
Can I create a meeting within a meeting?
MariusPretorius thanks for your suggestion. My concern is that many of my guest speakers are not in the same time zone as me. Hence, sending a meeting invite with the correct time for them to join would be ideal, so that there is no confusion. I'm thinking, maybe I should create a channel within my team where I invite guest lecturers and the students at the mid-class time. So the students join the class as usual on the general channel but join the guest lecture in the specific channel at the allotted time and can leave this and rejoin the original class when the guest lecture is over. Not sure if that is the best way though.
Vanyajain I think creating the separate meetings and having students move between them will be clunky and disruptive to the timing and flow of the class. I would go with @Marius Pretorius suggestion of inviting the Guest speaker to the regularly scheduled meeting. However, I think there is a way that you can still get what you want in terms of changing the time zone. Instead of creating a separate Teams Meeting, create a regular Outlook Calendar event for the time and date the guest speaker is supposed to join the meeting with the adjustments to the desired time zone. Copy and paste the link to the regularly scheduled Teams meeting into the Description of the event and make the location say: "Microsoft Teams Online Meeting see below for link". This way, the guest speaker can add the event to their calendar and will see it in their time zone, but you will be able to maintain one meeting location for your students.
- millerblair thanks. I do see what you're saying about moving in to-and-fro. Good idea about the outlook calendar. I'll give it a shot.