Organize class meetings

Add meeting details

Prep an agenda, highlight learning objectives, or create any other type of note to share with students or colleagues before a meeting.  

1. To prepare meeting context or notes beforehand, go to the Calendar  and open your meeting.
2. Enter notes into the text box that says Type details for this meeting. 
3. Select Save.
4. To take notes during a meeting, choose More actions  > Meeting notes > Take notes.

Create a Whiteboard canvas

Use the digital online Whiteboard to collaborate with your class, demonstrate math problems, and more. 

1. Select Share content  on the meeting controls.
2. Choose Whiteboard to start collaborating with your class on a canvas.
3. To turn off collaboration and  demonstrate something to your students, select Settings , then switch Other participants can edit to Off.
4. Open Settings and select Export image (PNG) to save your canvas to your Downloads folder.

Record class meetings

Share meeting recordings with students for asynchronous learning. 

1. On the meeting controls, select More actions  .
2. Select Start recording and transcription.

3. When you're done, choose More actions   >Stop recording and transcription, and confirm.
4. To playback your recording in a channel meeting, go to Files. All other meetings are saved to OneDrive.  

Use breakout rooms

Use breakout rooms for small group discussions and projects.

1. In the meeting controls, select Breakout rooms.
2. Choose the number of rooms you want to use for class from the dropdown menu.
3. Choose to assign students to breakout rooms Automatically or Manually.
4. Select Create rooms. If you chose to automatically assign students, they will be in a breakout room.
5. If you chose to assign students yourself, expand the list under Assign participants, hover over student names until checkboxes appear, then check the boxes next to names you want to group together. Then select More options  and assign them to a room. Repeat these steps until all students have been grouped into rooms.

Take class notes

Create class notes and view notes your educator posts.    

1. To take notes, select More actions on the meeting controls.
2. Select Meeting notes.
3. Select Take notes to start writing. 
4. Notes appear in the Chat window and are saved in the Meeting Notes tab. 

Create a Whiteboard canvas

Use the digital online Whiteboard to collaborate with your class, work through math problems, and more. 

1. To share a canvas, you need to be assigned the role of presenter in your meeting. Then select Share content  on the meeting controls.
2. Choose Whiteboard and start collaborating with your class.
3. Open the Settings menu and select Export image (PNG) to save your canvas to your Downloads folder.