Join us for our upcoming CAO Webinar Series from 15th January. Register here

Target Group: All staff members.

Pre-requisites: Have logged into your Microsoft Office account and installed the MS Teams App on your PC.

Learning outcomes:

At the end of this training event, you will be able to:

  • Make calls to colleagues within TU Dublin
  • Make external calls
  • Use text chat to chat colleagues
  • Attach files to text chats

Text chats

  • Conduct a live text ‘Chat’
  • Start new chats with one or more colleagues
  • Manage your chats
  • Search your chat history

Calls

  • Turn a chat into an audio/video call
  • Record your voicemail greeting and control its settings
  • Listen to voicemails and Read transcript (if available)
  • Call one or more colleagues
  • Create your personal contact list and speed dial
  • Make external calls (PSTN)

Overview: Use the calendar in MS Teams or Outlook to create online meeting invites

Target Group: All TU Dublin Staff

Pre-requisites: Be familiar with the basic functionality of MS Teams (text chat, calls, attended MS Teams remote meetings)

Learning outcomes:

At the end of this webinar, you will be able to:

Distinguish between roles in a meeting: Organiser, Co-Organiser, Presenter, Attendee, Guest

Schedule a meeting from within your Outlook calendar (Web & Desktop version)

  • View colleagues’ availability for meetings (Scheduling Assistant)
  • Control RSVPs/Disable forwarding
  • Add additional attendees after sending an invite
  • Create an ‘Open Link’ for a meeting

Schedule a meeting from within your Teams calendar

  • Assign presentation role for meetings

Overview: Use the 'Webinar' feature in MS Teams to schedule webinar events for staff members and external partners. Upon registration, via a professionally presented web page, the event is placed automatically into calendar. Manage attendee registration and analyse attendee data for effective follow-up.

Target Group: All TU Dublin Staff

Pre-requisites: Be familiar with the basic functionality of MS Teams (text chat, calls, create a Teams meeting)

Learning outcomes:

At the end of this webinar, you will be able to:

  • Distinguish between a Schedule Meeting, Webinar, and a Live event
  • Create a professionally presented registration form
  • Allow external registrations, Limit number of attendees, set registration start and end time
  • Add additional questions to registration form
  • Monitor registrations
  • Copy registration link and share
  • Utilise registration approval and wait listing
  • Embed listing in a web page or email
  • Duplicate Events
  • Customise Follow up emails

Overview: How to best run online meetings

Target Group: All TU Dublin Staff

Pre-requisites: Confident use of MS Teams: Chats, Calls and scheduling and attending meetings

Learning outcomes:

At the end of this webinar, you will be able to:

  • Best prepare for various meeting types and sizes, while anticipating ‘joining’ requirements
  • Enable meeting options i.e. the lobby, who can present etc
  • Share your desktop, window, presentations and documents
  • Permit sharing by others
  • Invite, mute during a meeting
  • Navigate the Control Panel