Instructors who want This page covers how to use the Teams Microsoft Team integration in Ultra course.

Overview

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Needs to be enabled

Enabling Microsoft Teams

• The Microsoft Teams integration can only be enabled by users with the ‘Instructor’ role in HuskyCT.

• Enabling the Microsoft Teams integration creates a “Class Team” which offers teaching and learning tools that are not available in the standard Staff or Professional team.

• Instructors need to periodically resync the HuskyCT-Teams roster to add or remove students from the Class Team who have added or dropped the course.

  • Instructors cannot manually remove students from the Class Team.

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Enabling Microsoft Teams

1. At the bottom of the Details and Actions right-side menu, click Enable Microsoft Teams.

   

2. Then click Sync with Microsoft Teams.

   

3. Integration syncing will take a few minutes. The sync will all enrolled student users to the Class Team.

   1. While this is happening, the Microsoft Teams tool may display “Setting up” and it may also disappear from the Details and Actions menu temporarily.

4. Once the Team is created, in the Teams app, you instructor will receive an activity notification telling you in the Teams app, notifying of the Class Team’s creation.

   

5. From the Teams tab, in the Classes section, you can see the ‘Class’ Class Team that is integrated with the Ultra course.
   

   

6. Once you Activate the class team, students will be able to access it and it can’t be undone later.the Team.

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Teams features in the Ultra Course

Once the Teams integration is fully setup, the Microsoft Teams link will display Open Microsoft Teams and provide a few integration options.

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1. Resynchronize course members:

   1. This is important to do periodically, and especially after the add/drop date to ensure that students in the Class Team reflect the students enrolled in the HuskyCT course.

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   2. After clicking Resynchronize, the Microsoft Teams tool will display “Setting up” and also disappear from the bottom of the menu until the action is complete.
      

2. Open Microsoft Teams meetings:

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   1. Requires immediate Microsoft sign-in for all course users.

   2. After sign-in, any scheduled Teams meetings will appear for instructors, TAs and students.

   3. New meetings can be scheduled by instructors, TAs, and students

      1. Any scheduled meetings will appear in this space.

      2. When a new meeting has been scheduled, all invited users will be notified via their UConn email.
         

3. Open Microsoft Teams classes:
   

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   1. Displays a page which can be used to open the Teams app and bring the user directly to the Class Team.

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