Adding a Microsoft Teams meeting

Microsoft Teams enables students and staff to communicate using chat, video and a whiteboard. You can schedule a Teams meeting directly within Canvas. If you add a meeting to an Announcement, students will receive a notification automatically.

Index

  1. Adding a Teams meeting to an Announcement
  2. Adding a Teams meeting to a Page
  3. Adding a Teams meeting to the Course Calendar
  4. Adding a Teams meeting to a Discussion
  5. Adding a Teams meeting to a Quiz

1. Adding a Teams meeting to an Announcement

      1. From the Course Navigation menu, click Announcements then + Announcement.
      2. Click on the drop-down arrow on the bottom toolbar.
      3. Select Microsoft Teams Meetings.

        Canvas page showing the Teams meeting option
      1. Sign in to Microsoft Teams and select Create meeting link.
      2. Add a title and date for the meeting.

        Adding a title and date to the meeting

      3. Select Create.
      4. A link is inserted on the Announcement page.
        Link to the meeting on the Announcement page

      1. Click Save.
      2. You have created the Announcement. Students will receive a notification (if their Notification preferences for Announcements are enabled. There is more guidance available on Announcements and Notifications.

2. Adding a Teams meeting to a Page

See the instructions from 1.3 above.

There is more help available about creating and editing Pages.

 

3. Adding a Teams meeting to the Course Calendar

  1. In your Canvas course, click Home and then enter the calendar view by clicking View calendar on the top right-hand side.
  2. Click on a date in the Calendar to add an event.
  3. Add time, location and other additional details.
  4. Select More options to add the Teams meeting.
  5. Click on the drop-down arrow on the bottom toolbar.
  6. Select Microsoft Teams Meetings.

    Canvas page showing the Teams meeting option
    1. Sign in to Microsoft Teams and select Create meeting link.
    2. Add a title and date for the meeting.

      Adding a title and date to the meeting

    3. Select Create.
    4. The Teams meeting has been added to the Course Calendar.

      Teams meeting appears in the Course Calendar

Notes:

  1. Currently you have to enter the date twice, once at the start (for Canvas) and once again when you are in Teams. In other words, Teams does not pass the Time information back to the Canvas Calendar.
  2. It is not possible to add a Microsoft Teams meeting to your Canvas personal calendar.

There is more help available on the Calendar guidance pages.

 

4. Adding a Teams meeting to a Discussion.

  1. In your Canvas course, click Home and then select Discussions.
  2. Select + Discussion to create a new Discussion.
  3. See the instructions from 1.3 above.

There is more help available on the Discussions guidance pages.

 

5. Adding a Teams meeting to a Quiz*.

  1. In your Canvas course, click Home and then select Quizzes.
  2. Select + Quiz to create a new Quiz.
  3. See the instructions from 1.3 above.

Note: Adding a Meeting using this method will work for 'Classic' Quizzes. If you are using the newer, more advanced 'New Quizzes', you can paste a link to the existing Teams meeting into the Quiz instructions.

There is more help available on the Quizzes guidance pages.