It's possible to use Teams alongside Moodle, to augment your online teaching.
This article provides example scenarios that can be adapted to individual instructor and student needs.
Advantages of using Teams with Moodle
Using Teams and Moodle is not a "one or the other" proposition: you can use Moodle for its strengths, like course structure, grading, or enrollment management, while also taking advantage of Teams for its strengths, like real-time collaboration and communication.
This excellent video from University of East London shows the advantages of each platform, and how using them together makes for an even better learning environment:
Example Usage Scenarios
Preamble
Technically, these use cases presume that an Instructor will ask eLSupport to create a Class Team that's synced with an existing Moodle course. In that case, Moodle Student enrollment will be automatically synced into the Class Team with current Moodle Students becoming Team Members, and the Moodle Teacher becoming the Team Owner. Students will have a link in Moodle's Microsoft Block that opens the course's companion Class Team. Staging learning experiences in Microsoft Teams will benefit all students who will end up working where Microsoft 365 applications are common.
Use Case: Initial Setup
Instructor Jane wants some help creating a new Class Team as a companion space for her Moodle course. She contacts eLearning Support, who send her to a web form to request her new Teams integration. Later, she gets an email from eLSupport telling her that her new Class Team is ready. In Teams, she finds a new Class Team named after her Moodle course, which has her as the Owner and her enrolled Moodle Students joined as Members. In her Moodle course, she finds a "Microsoft" block which provides one-click access to new Class Team. She sees that changes to her Moodle course enrollments get updated in real-time in her Class Team.
Use Case: Class Check-in/Warm-up in Teams
Instructor Jane wants to touch base with her Students at the beginning of the week to find out how they're feeling about their assignments and workload, and if there are specific issues they urgently need help with. She posted an announcement in the Moodle course main page and in the course's Calendar asking her Students to join her in Teams at 9:30am, Monday morning.
As each Student sees that announcement in Jane's Moodle course, they open the Block drawer on the right and find the "Microsoft" block, where they click the "Team" link to open the companion Class Team. (Students with the Teams app installed see it open in the app. Other students see it open in their browser.)
In the Class Team "General" channel, Students read and respond to their instructor and each other in real time.
Use Case: Collaborative Writing in Teams and Moodle
Instructor Jane wants her Students to work in pairs, collaboratively writing an analysis of a local business. The Students need to be able to add or edit text in real-time together, or separately when they cannot meet. They are asked to work in one Microsoft Word document, shared with each other, and add comments and other annotations while they write.
The Instructor has created a private channel for the Students to work in where they cannot be seen by classmates. The two Students agree to create a new Word document in the "Files" area of their private channel. They work on different sections, assembling text, and chatting in Teams while they work together, watching each others edits happen in real-time on the page.
When their first draft is completed, they join the rest of the class in the General channel for a video meeting moderated by their Instructor. After discussion, the Students decide that their draft report is ready for submission. One of the Student team uploads the Word document into a Moodle Assignment activity that's set to use Group Submission, so that both participants will be graded on the same submission.
Use Case: Brainstorm a Business Solution using Teams Whiteboard
Two Students have been paired up to work together, and are presented with a case study assignment. Their challenge is to troubleshoot the problems in a customer service scenario and determine what steps could have been performed better to lead to a positive outcome for the customer.
In a private Teams channel created by their Instructor, the two Students open the Whiteboard app and begin a Teams meeting to work together. They break the scenario down into steps using diagram shapes to create a flowchart showing the decision points between the customer and the business's support desk. Drawing and speaking together in real-time helps them better understand the possible communication exchanges between customer and support teams. They decide to save their flowchart as an image, and combine it with a written report, which they will submit together in the Moodle course.
Resources
These resources will help you start learning about the capabilities of various Microsoft tools and platforms, and decide which are best for your needs: