Using Microsoft Teams for live lessons (Students)
What do I use to join a Teams lesson?
- Download and install the Microsoft Teams app onto your device. This will work much better than running Teams in your browser. It also gives you more options during the meetings.
- Sign in to the app using your school Office365 account. If you sign in as a guest your teacher may not admit you from the lobby and may ask you to leave and sign in again using your school account. This is to ensure the correct students and only Highams Park students are in the online lessons.
- If multiple people (eg siblings at Highams Park or child & parent) use the same desktop or laptop device, we recommend you set up multiple users on that device (Windows | Mac OS). This way you can keep each other's Teams meetings separate.
What times are the lessons?
- Your timetable is exactly the same as if you were in school.
- You have 5 mins between lessons and no registration. So please join your lesson on time. Arriving late makes it difficult for teachers who are already delivering a lesson and have to check who you are and admit you. Registers will be taken as normal.
How do I join a Teams lesson?
- If everyone is off school (eg snow closure), your teacher will send you the link to join your lesson in a Task on Firefly. Click the link and choose to open the meeting in your Teams app when prompted.
- If you are an individual student self-isolating at home, your teacher may invite you via Teams directly to join the lesson they are delivering to the rest of the class in school. Simply join the lesson from the invitation within your Teams app or follow the link sent to your school email address.
Should I have my camera and microphone on or off?
When joining a Microsoft Teams lesson students must have their video and microphone turned off. You are only to switch these on if directed by your teacher.
What else will I need?
Everything you would have in a normal lesson (book(s), stationary, calculator etc...)
For many lessons your teacher will need you to use other resources (eg your own version of the PowerPoint slides, worksheets, videos, animations etc...) Your teacher may attach a page containing these to your Firefly task for example. It will be useful to have these running before you join the Teams meeting
What if I miss the live lesson?
Lessons will be recorded and shared with you afterwards via the same Firefly task with the original Teams link. Any questions, please contact your teacher by email.
Will all lessons be live on Microsoft Teams?
Teams is a perfect way for teachers to provide remote support to students. But it may not be possible for all teachers to deliver live lessons due to other commitments. Instead or in addition you may be sent work to do as a Firefly Task or Recommended Bookmark, so make sure you keep track of both of those.
Student Microsoft Teams lessons Code of Conduct
Problems?
Contact your individual subject teacher or ithelp @highamsparkschool.co.uk