How to add students to your MS Team
Written by Corey Berry
Updated at June 5th, 2024
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Introduction
Georgian College IT provides GC Flex teachers with an MS Teams tile that is populated with your class roster; however, the roster can change and the sync doesn't always happen fast enough. Read this article to learn how to manage your roster in MS Teams.
🖥️ Video Tutorial
Review this video to learn two strategies for adding students to your MS Teams class roster.
🗺️ Text Instructions
Here are 2 options for adding students to your Teams tile:
- Share a link to the Team, not to the meeting
- Add students manually
Option 1: Share a link to the team channel
1. In the top-right corner, select the 3 dots and choose ‘get link to channel’.
2. Paste that link into your Blackboard shell. You can add it to the course schedule section, the announcements, and the weekly learning areas.
3. If the student is already on your MS Teams roster, they will be brought to the general channel of your team. If the student is not in your MS Teams roster, they will get a message that tells them to request to join the team. You will get notified of their request, and then you can approve their request. Once they are approved, the students can enter the team channel with the link you provided to them in step 2.
4. From the general channel of the MS Team, students will click on the meeting link to join your class. The meeting link is a long, purple bar in the channel.
Option 2: Manually add students to your MS Teams roster
- On the left side of your team, select the three dots beside the name of the team.
- Choose the option to ‘manage team’.
- Select add member.
- Type in the names of the students that are missing from your roster.
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