Setup Group and Connect on MS Teams
Overview
Team learning is a collaborative effort and teams are an essential part of most career fields. Working in groups supports the principles of love, service, and teach one another as shown in our Learning Model.
In this setup activity, you will sign up for a group in I-Learn based upon your preferred weekly meeting time.
During the block, you will meet with and collaborate with your group synchronously at least
once each week and collaborate asynchronously throughout the week.
Instructions
Group Selection in I-Learn
- In I-Learn, select the People in the course menu.
- Select the WDD230Groups tab.
- Select one of the groups based upon your preferred weekly meeting time.
The meeting times are set one hour blocks on Wednesdays or Thursdays.
MS Teams
- Download Microsoft Teams on your computer and other device(s) as desired.
- Use your BYU-Idaho account to sign into MS Teams.
- Complete the Introduction to Microsoft Teams tutorial.
- Complete the enrollment invitation you receive via email to enroll into this section's WDD 230 MS Team named something like Web Frontend Development I.
- Turn on Channel Notifications for the General channel by
clicking on the kebab menu ••• next to General channel and selecting
Channel notifications -> All activity. - Confirm your membership in your group's channel by posting a brief bio and hello to the other members of your group on MS Teams once those group channels have been setup.
Course-wide discussions, instructor announcements, and other course topic threads will also
take place in Teams in the General channel.