{"id":4712,"date":"2019-02-21T18:03:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T23:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=4712"},"modified":"2019-02-15T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T02:01:07","slug":"did-you-know-you-can-schedule-a-meeting-in-a-teams-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=4712","title":{"rendered":"Did you know \u2026 you can schedule a meeting in a Teams channel?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve previously provided information on scheduling a private meeting in Teams<\/a> and a shortcut to schedule a meeting from within a chat<\/a>. Private meetings are great for discussing topics that need to be private, but a team can be more engaged with a project when planning and implementation discussions are visible and inspectable.<\/p>\n

Instead of inviting participants to a private meeting, schedule the meeting in a channel and members can attend your meeting and see what happened during the meeting. Channel meetings will appear as a thread in the channel discussion, and any chat messages sent during the meeting can be read by Team members.<\/p>\n

If the shared notebook was used to take meeting notes, or a recording of the meeting<\/a> was made, links to those items will be displayed in the meeting thread. Avatars for each attendee appear in the bottom right-hand corner of the meeting thread. Because the meeting information is readily available in the channel discussion, these meeting are a great way of keeping everyone \u201cin the loop\u201d and engaged.<\/p>\n

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To schedule a channel meeting, click the drop-down for \u201cSelect a channel to meet in\u201d, expand a Team name, and select the appropriate channel.<\/p>\n

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Meetings appear in the channel, and participants can click to join the meeting directly from the channel post.<\/p>\n

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As the meeting organizer, I see the meeting in my Teams meetings section and my Outlook calendar.<\/p>\n

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However, other channel members to not<\/em> see channel meetings in their Teams meetings section or Outlook calendar.<\/p>\n

*Not* displaying the meeting to all channel members is an intentional decision \u2013 Microsoft originally displayed all channel meetings in everyone\u2019s calendar. It caused a lot of confusion because people weren\u2019t sure if they needed<\/em> to attend the meeting or not. Not<\/em> displaying the meeting can cause problems too \u2013 I glance at my calendar to plan my day and don\u2019t know about your meeting until the reminder pops up ten minutes before the meeting starts. If you need<\/em> specific Team members to attend your meeting, enter their names in the \u201cInvite People\u201d section.<\/p>\n

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Individuals listed as attendees will<\/em> see the meeting in their calendar. Other team members can join if they have interest and availability, but the required participants can see the meeting and plan on attending.<\/p>\n

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When a channel discussion becomes involved and it would be easier to talk<\/em>, you can start an ad hoc meeting in a channel. Click the \u201cMeet now\u201d icon under the new conversation box. Attendees can join the meeting from the channel thread, and meeting information is posted to the thread just like with a scheduled channel meeting.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve previously provided information on scheduling a private meeting in Teams and a shortcut to schedule a meeting from within a chat. Private meetings are great for discussing topics that need to be private, but a team can be more engaged with a project when planning and implementation discussions are visible and inspectable. Instead of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[675,691,729,666,686],"class_list":["post-4712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-365","tag-did-you-know","tag-microsoft-office","tag-microsoft-office-365","tag-microsoft-teams","tag-ms-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4720,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions\/4720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}