Configuring Teams Meeting Settings
Before you are allowed into the meeting, you have an opportunity to customize your audio and camera settings.
Open Settings (gear), choose your webcam, microphone, and Background filters. You can adjust these settings anytime during the meeting. When ready, click/press Join now to enter the Teams Meeting.
Join the Teams Meeting
Once the link is available in the course, students will enter the meeting by following the link. Single-use meeting links may be best provided in an Announcement, while meetings that are to be used regularly should be provided on a prominent Page- preferably the Home Page.
If Teams is installed on the user’s computer, it will launch in a separate window. Otherwise, users can choose to Continue on this browser (1) using the web application. Users may also follow the link to Download it now (2).
To automatically have your students enter the Lobby when joining, and not the meeting, you need to configure the meeting’s Who can bypass the lobby setting to “Only organizers and Co-organizers”. This will ensure that students who attempt to enter the meeting early will not be included in the meeting recording.
Use a Button to Provide the Link (Optional)
You can choose to take one further step and hide the URL under a button, making the entry point more “elegant” and stylized to match your course.
- Find or create an image that would serve as a “button” and upload it to your course’s Files.
- Open the Page or tool that includes your Teams Meeting link in the Rich Content Editor.
- Insert the button image in a suitable location on the Page, and size it appropriately.
- Copy the URL for the meeting, by right-clicking on the link and choosing Copy link address.
- Select the button, and choose the External Link option under the Link button on the toolbar.
- Paste the URL into the Link field, and click Done.
- Save the Page.
Additional Resources
- INFOsheet: Teams Meetings - October 2025 Update
- INFOsheet: Teams Meetings with MyCanvas - Introduction and Basic Features
- INFOsheet: Teams Meetings with MyCanvas - Advanced Features
- INFOsheet: Using Teams Meetings with MyCanvas - Connecting a Meeting with Your Course
- INFOsheet: Teams Meetings and Zoom Feature Comparison
- Video: Introduction and the Basics: Facilitating Your First Teams Meeting Tutorial