The Teams Connector in Brightspace allows Brock instructors 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 listed in the Brightspace Classlist area. Instructors are welcome to pilot this new feature during the Spring and Summer terms.
Benefits
Faster creation of the Teams site for a course, and the enrollment is based on the Brightspace Classlist (meaning if you've already added TAs in Brightspace, you won't have to do it again in Teams).
Creates a link to your Teams site on your Brightspace course site homepage that students can use to seamlessly navigate between the two spaces.
Only Spring and Summer Brightspace courses are eligible for the Teams Course Connector at this time.
Creating a Teams site using the Teams Course Connector
Change to a Teams-Course-Connector-enabled Homepage
After opening a Brightspace site in which you have an Instructor role, open Course Tools from the Navbar and then select Course Admin.
Click Homepages.
Open the Active Homepage dropdown and then select a Homepage that includes 'Teams Course Connector'.
Click Apply.
Use the Teams Course Connector to create a site
Allow at least 30 minutes for the new Teams site to be fully created, as not all features become available immediately. For larger courses, this time may increase.
After switching to a Teams-Course-Connector-enabled Homepage, the Teams Course Connector widget will become available to the instructor at the bottom of the Brightspace site’s Homepage.
Click Create Course Team to begin.
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.