Teams: #FightCorona – How do I add an agenda prior to the meeting?

Having discussed the lobby, the next area we will look at is adding an agenda prior to the meeting. Agendas can help focus the meeting, keeping members on track and making them more productive.  They help with a structure and a narrative. Of course, not all meetings or audiences warrant agendas, and they are not a mandatory part of the scheduling - so this is completely your decision on a meeting by meeting basis

Teams: #FightCorona – How do I turn the Meeting Lobby on or off?

We have covered scheduling it and joining the Teams Meeting, but before we can get into the meeting itself and explore all the good things we can do within it, we need to cover a few other topics first. Let's get to grips with the lobby.

Teams: #FightCorona – How do I join a meeting?

We have either scheduled our meeting or someone has sent us a meeting - but now we have to join it to get going

Teams: #FightCorona – How can I schedule a meeting?

One of the keys to remote working with Teams is meetings. Meetings are a big part of Teams and like Chat, are one of the fundamental ways in which we can collaborate with others within our organisation, as well as guests and external users. In the next several blogs we will go into all the aspects of meetings including how to schedule them, how we can join them, what the meetings experience is like, how we can share, how we can amend meeting settings and how we can utilise integrated apps like the whiteboard

Teams: #FightCorona – How can I set my availability? When is it right to chat and call?

If we are working remotely, we need to know when we can contact others and when it is the right time to chat or place a call. We can't assume that because others aren't in the office they automatically have more time on their hands. We certainly don't want them to make that assumption about us. There are a number of features in Teams that can help with managing your availability and seeing others availability - the primary one being Presence