Create a Class Team in Microsoft Teams


 

 

OVERVIEW

Target audience: Students, faculty and staff members who wish to use Teams for a remote learning class

The Teams Class template is set up with some unique features and apps enabled to better accommodate education or classroom needs. One major difference between class and all other types of teams is that class teams are private teams (cannot be changed), meaning that the team is not visible to your entire organization, and only team owners can add members to the team.

The Class template has many of the same features as other teams as well as some specialized options for classes such as a Class Notebook.

In this article:

Create a Class Team

  1. Begin by creating a new team from the Teams tab.

     
  2. Select "Class" as your team type when prompted.

      
     
  3. Select Use this template. Enter a name and description (optional) for your new Team and click Create.

     

  4. You will automatically be prompted to add members to your team. You may choose to do this now or skip and do this after you have configured your Team.        

     

    You may edit your team at any point to change the name, profile picture and privacy.

    For more information about setting up your class team you may want to check out this series of articles on the Microsoft support site.

Manage team members, channels and apps

Click Manage Team to add team members, manage your channels and apps, view your analytics, and change other team settings.

 

Add class moderators and students

Once your team is configured to your liking and you are ready to add other class moderators and students there are two ways of doing this:

Option 1: Add members manually

  1. Click Add member to add each member, one by one, by searching for them by name.

  2. You can add members as “Member" or "Owner":
    • Students - Anyone added as a student is recommended to be given the role of “Member”
    • Teachers - Anyone added as a teacher is recommended to be given the role of “Owner”

    Roles for each team member can be changed at any time by Team Owners.

  3. Under Settings > Member permissions, you can specify the permissions, such as ability to create, delete and update channels or tabs, apps and messages in the Team.

     

Option 2: Generate a Team code to allow members to join on their own

  1. Generate your team code through the Settings menu.
  2. Copy this code and send or post it for your students to join.

    Generated team codes can be used by users to automatically join the team for as long as you leave it open. If you wish to deactivate the code (“Remove”), or generate a new one (“Reset”) you can also do so from Settings > Team code.

    Note that all users who join using a code will automatically be given a Member (Student) role in the team. You can change their role at any point from the Manage Team option, shown above.

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