The Teams Meeting toolbar button in Moodle lets you schedule a Teams Meeting and create a "Join" link for Students.
Using the "Teams Meeting" toolbar button in Moodle's editor, you can schedule a Teams Meeting and create a hyperlink to invite attendees.
(Note: These Moodle-specific instructions are useful if you do not use Microsoft Outlook or cannot access it. Otherwise, you may find that creating a Teams "Join" meeting link using the Teams Calendar and pasting it into your Moodle course is a better option. That will create an Outlook calendar item, which the following Moodle method does not.)
Finding the Teams Meeting Toolbar button
Here's where the Teams Meeting toolbar button is located in Moodle's TinyMCE editor:
Here's where the Teams Meeting toolbar button is located in Moodle's Atto editor:
Scheduling a Teams Meeting
- Click on the Teams Meeting toolbar button to start scheduling your Teams Meeting.
- Click the "Sign in" button. (If you're asked to login, enter your VCC credentials and do the regular multi-factor authentication steps.)
- Next, click the "Create meeting link" button to continue:
- Enter your meeting name and start and end dates and times:
- At this point, your Teams Meeting settings have now been set.
The URL for your Teams Meeting should appear in the "Your meeting URL" field at the bottom of the dialog box.
(You can also use the "Open in new window" checkbox to make your meeting link open in a new browser tab.)
- Hit the "Add Link" button to accept and insert the Teams Meeting URL:
- Your Teams Meeting link will be inserted back into the Moodle editor:
Before saving, you can edit the visible link text to make the link more appealing or easier to read.
- Finally, hit "Save and Return to course" to save your resource or activity.