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The Teams Course Connector allows Brock instructors is a Brightspace widget that instructors can use to quickly create Teams sites using a widget in Brightspace.

The Teams Connector will create a new Teams site that includes all students, TAs, instructors, and other course staff and instructors as they are listed in the Brightspace Classlist areasite’s Classlist. It can use the entire site roster or create a Team for each section.

The Teams Course Connector is available in Brightspace by default, but it can be switched off if needed.

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Things to keep in mind

  • Allow at least 30 minutes for the new Teams site to be fully created, as not all features become available immediately. For This time will increase for larger courses, this time should increase.

  • If you use Create a team When creating a Team for each section, a ‘core’ Teams site will be built as well as one site still be made alongside the sites for each section that’s present in your the Brightspace site. If your a Brightspace site includes only one section, using Create creating a team for each section will thus results result in the creation of two Teams sites.

  • Remember to activate a Teams site when it’s ready for student access.

Note

An issue is currently affecting Teams sites

, if

created with the Teams Connector

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that utilize more than

2 if you wish to have assistance with this,

two channels. Contact

CPI

edtech@brocku.ca for further assistance or switch to the legacy Teams client to create the channels without error

.Remember to activate your Teams sites when you’re ready for students to view them

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Use the Teams Course Connector to create a site

The Teams Course Connector widget is available to the instructor at the bottom of the Brightspace site’s Homepage. Click Create Course Team to begin.

Image of the Course Connector for MS Teams widget in Brightspace

Optionally create separate Teams sites for separate course sections

Activate Create a team for each section to create a Teams site which includes the enrollment of each Section that’s listed within the Brightspace site. See the Sections area of the Brightspace site for information about available Sections.

This option will always create a principal Teams site as well as additional Teams sites for each Section that’s present within the site, even if only one Section is present in Brightspace.

Optionally turn off the Teams Course Connector

The Teams Course Connector is available on specific Homepages in Brightspace. To turn off the Course Connector, change the default homepage in your Brightspace site to one which doesn’t include the Course Connector.

  1. After opening a Brightspace site in which you have an Instructor role, open Course Tools from the Navbar and then select Course Admin.

  2. Click Homepages.

  3. Open the Active Homepage dropdown and then select a Homepage that does not display +Teams as part of the description.

    Change to homepage without Teams Connector.png

  4. Click Apply.