Generations Multi Academy Trust Helpdesk

After opening Microsoft Teams, please click the “Teams Tab” on the left, as seen below. 

You should then see a page that looks something like this, click the “Create team” as pictured below. 

If you have already existing teams you will see a button in the top right corner that says, “Join or create team” (pictured in green). 

After clicking this, you will be taken to another page with two boxes, to create a new team click “Create team” once hovering over the box. 

Chose the type of Team that you would like to create, in this instance I will create a Class Team by clicking “Class” with the bag icon above it. 

You will then be asked to give the Class a name and description (the description is optional). 

Once you have filled this out, please click “Next”. 

The Team will begin creation (this should only take a second or two depending on Teams’ workload) and you will be able to add students and staff to the class team. 

To add students, you must type their full email address and add as a guest. This is visible in the screenshot below. 

Once you have added all the students to the class, click the add button and then click close. 

If at any point you should need to add another student or member of staff to the team, click the “…” next to the team name and click “Add member” and repeat the same steps as step 5. 

To create assignments within the team, click the assignments tab as pictured below in the blue circle. 

Enter a title (red arrow – this is required), instructions for the students (green arrow), (if applicable) how many points this is worth (yellow arrow) and the due date and time (blue arrows). Once this information has been filled in, click “Assign” (purple arrow). 

To make a call with the team, click “Meet Now” pictured below with the burgundy arrow. 

To record your lesson, go to the bottom of the screen select the three dots “…” as circled in red. 

You will be presented a menu with a menu, that looks like this. Select the “Start recording” with the red record button. 

Once the lesson/meeting has finished, the recording will process. 

Once the recording has processed it will be placed within the chat and look something like this. 

To view the meeting, just click on the video. 

To share your screen, click the share icon as circled below 

To share your whole screen, select “Screen 1” as circled in red under the “Desktop” tab. 

If there is a specific window that you wish to share, please select the specific window located under the “Window” tab. 

If you are using the web version of Microsoft Teams, the interface does look slightly different and looks something like the below. 

To stop sharing, click the “Stop Sharing” button as pictured below.