Apr 15 2020 10:12 AM
Hi there
Our educators are used to using Outlook to schedule meetings with staff and learners.
Since we've all adopted Teams, they still want to be able to schedule Team meetings using Outlook.
In the Outlook Calendar there is a "New Teams Meeting" feature which we're using but the following is an issue,
Unable to select the Office 365 group (Team) as a Required recipient.
Work-around is to get the email address of the General Channel that belongs to the Team they are trying to schedule with.
The issue with this is that the new meeting then arrives as an email post in the Team channel without any time or date details of the actual meeting and only a Join Teams Meeting hyperlink.
Is there a better way we should be doing this?
Our Teachers want to be able to schedule lessons in advance with the learners.
Please find attached my documentation on the process.
Kind regards
Apr 15 2020 07:37 PM
Apr 15 2020 08:07 PM
Apr 16 2020 03:35 AM
Hi Satish
Thank you for your reply.
Unfortunately using Outlook to schedule a meeting we are unable to add a Teams channel as a required recipient.
Please see attached image for a comparison of our Outlook options vs Teams Calendar options.
Kind regards
Apr 16 2020 03:49 AM
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
Apr 16 2020 05:29 AM
I got your point. Apologies for the confusion. This is by design of the Microsoft Teams Application and the Microsoft Teams Meeting.
With Regards,
Satish U
Jun 25 2020 09:00 AM
Jun 26 2020 12:21 AM