Our university is encouraging instructors to use Microsoft Teams instead of Zoom this fall, especially if the class will involve group work so that students can set up their groups and have their own meetings, chat, work on documents together, etc.
I know that it is possible to join a Teams meeting without having the app, although I'm not sure how - Would they just receive the link to the meeting and paste that into their browser? And then there's some option for "join without app" or something?
Would someone without the app be able to take advantage of any of the other Teams functions?
Our students can install Office 365 for free, but I'm just trying to think if there are any students who can't install apps for whatever reason. I'm wondering if they would be able to participate in a class that uses Teams.
I do know about joining -- the person would receive a link to join, and when they click on it they'll be prompted to either download Teams or join from a browser. I don't know what limitations there are on browser users, though.
Post by litskispeciality on Aug 6, 2020 16:09:24 GMT -5
My school has been doing virtual info sessions via Teams. As long as someone signs up online (through our CRM) we'll send them a link through the live event. So far so good, students open the link, watch the PP (or live person), and can type questions in to the chat feature. ETA: My understanding is that they don't download anything, they just open and watch/participate.
I had to call in to a session once from my cell because I had sound issues, but on the left it said the number to call. I think that issue was because I went in through VPN, not so much a Teams issue. We have the ability to record, but I haven't seen a recording to speak to the quality.
My understanding is my colleagues use Teams on their phones if they're away from the computer. I don't think it's ideal, but another way if a student doesn't have a laptop.
We are starting to use it at work but they haven't installed the app for everyone yet. I get an invite in my email and just open the link without downloading anything, it works fine.
Teams is an option on the web interface version of office 365.
I’ve logged in from my personal laptop when traveling and used the web version of my work teams set up without any issue. As long as they have computer with an up to date web browser they should be able to participate.
I can access most of the functions from the phone app. I hate opening files on my phone and teams app doesn’t have some of the add on third party apps that you can see on a computer/web.
I'm not sure how it works for document editing if you're not in the app itself, but we've been using Teams at work for several months. We don't do much document editing within the app due to security issues, workwise, but it's worked well.
I actually prefer the document sharing view on Teams to zoom since I can usually still see more people at the bottom than Zoom. It could be a user issue with Zoom for me.
We're being asked to use Teams at my school. They will get a prompt to open the meeting in Teams or a web version. One thing I've noticed in testing it is that the whiteboard feature will not display for people in the web version. Just be aware
I had problems on my first meeting just using the link. It was with a county agency, and I could see them and hear them, but they couldn’t see or hear me. We never did figure out why. For my next meeting with a different jurisdiction, I downloaded teams before the meeting and everything went smoothly. I don’t love that it opens every morning when I turn on my work computer, but it’s not a huge deal.
I had problems on my first meeting just using the link. It was with a county agency, and I could see them and hear them, but they couldn’t see or hear me. We never did figure out why. For my next meeting with a different jurisdiction, I downloaded teams before the meeting and everything went smoothly. I don’t love that it opens every morning when I turn on my work computer, but it’s not a huge deal.
You can go into settings and turn off auto-launch.
Thank you all! When I use Teams in my browser vs. the app, as far as I can tell I can do everything in the browser that I can do in the app. Wasn't sure if that would be the same for someone who's never downloaded either the desktop app or the mobile app.
The thing I'm mostly concerned about is if a student is in a class that's doing group projects and the group is using the chat feature to store and work on files - I want to make sure that someone who's never downloaded the apps can be a part of that.
We used Teams almost exclusively. It works very well in Edge and Chrome. I'm not totally sure about other browsers. I have had issues with screen sharing when students are working on a Mac vs. PC.