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We hope everyone has had a great start to the Fall semester!  Now that we’re all settling in, the RCID team is starting back up with our Quick Tips.

For this Quick Tip, we want to remind you about an important change in the way you create Teams meeting links for your classes.  
 

Quick Tip: Creating Microsoft Teams meeting links for Canvas

You may have heard that Microsoft is sunsetting the Teams meeting tool that we’ve had within the Canvas Rich Content Editor.  Effective September 12th, the Microsoft Teams meeting integration in Canvas has been removed by Microsoft.
 

What you need to know about this change:

• Any Teams meeting links you have already created will continue to work.
   
• If you need to create a Teams Meeting link to add to your Canvas course for office hours or online synchronous meetings moving forward, you will need to generate the link in Teams or Outlook and then copy/paste it into Canvas.  Instructions are provided below.

Create a Teams Meeting Link to Share in Your Canvas Course 

Step 1: Create a Teams Meeting Link

The first step in this process is to generate a meeting link (which we’ll later copy/paste into Canvas).  Depending on your use case, you might create a single meeting link to use across all courses for the semester, or you might create separate meeting links for separate courses.

Note: In this guide, we will use the Meet Now feature to create a single, reusable meeting link.  However, if you want your meeting to show up as an event on your Outlook/Teams calendar, you could choose to schedule the Teams meeting for a specific date/time, with or without recurrence.  

1. Open the Teams desktop application on your computer or navigate to the Teams app in your web browser.
    

2. In the Teams app, click the Calendar icon in the menu bar on the left.

   

    

3. In the top right, click the Meet Now button.  A dialog box will pop up. 

   

    

4. In the Meeting name field, type in the title for your meeting.  Then click the Get a link to share button.

   

    

5. A meeting link will be generated.  Click the Copy button to copy the link to your clipboard.
   
   Optional: Click the Configure meeting options link to view and adjust the settings for your meeting (e.g., enable lobby, set who can present, etc.)

   

    

You have now created a Teams meeting link.
 

Step 2: Add the Teams Link to Your Canvas Course

The second step in this process is to post the Teams meeting link you created in your Canvas course.  

Note: We will show how to add the link to a Canvas course home page; however, you could share your link in other ways if desired (e.g., via Canvas announcement, email message, etc.).

1. Log into Canvas at canvas.kent.edu or through FlashLine.  Then navigate to your desired Canvas course.
    
2. On your course home page, click the Edit button in the top right.
    

3. In the Rich Content Editor (the large textbox), click to place your cursor in the location where you want to insert your meeting link.

   

    

4. Use the Insert menu at the top or click the Insert Link icon in the toolbar.  Then, select the External link option.  A dialog box will pop up.  
    

   

   
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5. In the Text field, type in descriptive link text.  This text is what students will see on the Canvas page, so make sure to label clearly.  
   
   Then, in the Link field, paste the meeting link you previously copied to your clipboard.
   
   Click the Done button to finish inserting the link.

   

    

6. Your link will be inserted into the Rich Content Editor.  
   
   Recommendation: Add additional text around your link to provide more information as needed (as in the example below).

   

    

7. Click the Save button in the bottom right to save your page.

   

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