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I work in a University. We use Blackboard as our VLE. Teams was deployed 6 months after the start of the pandemic so teaching staff used Zoom to deliver online teaching and have kept with it because they are human and "we don't like to change". Teams is being adopted at a good pace over the whole University by staff and more slowly by students. However, because Zoom is still being paid for by the University, and because students are using Google Mail and won't be migrated to Outlook & Exchange until mid 2022, and because some Blackboard hardliners see MS Teams as a threat, the benefits of using MS Teams for teaching delivery is being over-looked, in fact it's even true to say that it is being discouraged to advocate and talk about.
What tangible advice do you have to help drive the adoption of MS Teams for teaching in the scenario I've described?
Hi Mary, I teach at a college and we had other resources setup for virtual training. The department that I work with started a discussion with IT support team about testing it internally first. We invited ourselves with separate guest accounts to try out the full experience for faculty, students and guests. Once we got it configured, we were able to get it approved for use.