Set up a class, team or group in Microsoft Teams

To set up a class, team or group within Teams, you will need to: 

1. Navigate to the left-hand side of the app and click the ‘Teams’ icon
2. On the bottom left of the screen, click ‘Join or create a team’
3. This will take you to a page of tiles. Select the ‘Create a team’ tile
4. Select ‘Class’ as the team type
5. Enter a name for the class group; you could use your subject name/code
6. For example: “42000 – Property Evaluation – Autumn 2020 – Group A”
7. Begin to add your students to this class group and then click save

If students enrol or un-enrol throughout the duration of your course, you can always add or remove individual students from your Teams class as needed.  

To add a student in Teams:

• click on the ellipsis menu next to your class’ name and select ‘Add member’
• search for the student, click ‘Add’ and ‘Close’ to save

To remove a student in Teams:

• click on the ellipsis menu next to your class’ name and select ‘Manage team’
• under ‘Members and guests’, click the X button that belongs to the student you wish to remove

If you are teaching a large cohort you may wish to prevent students from sending broadcast messages using the @Team feature. To disable this feature: 

• go to ‘Manage Team’ and choose ‘Settings’
• navigate to @mentions and deselect @Team
• you may wish to leave the @channel option enabled if you have channels that you’d like students to be able to use it in