If you want to add Microsoft Teams (MS Teams) meetings to your courses on Mindseed, please read this documentation. It explains how you can add, manage or remove the MS Teams app from your mindseed admin interface.
Prerequisites
- you have already registered for an account at mindseed.online by clicking the user icon at the top right of the page
- you have already registered for an MS Teams account.
Adding the MS Teams App to Mindseed
- Visit your mindseed admin interface.
- Navigate to Settings from the left sidebar menu & then choose "Authentications".
- Then click "Create" from the top right.
- From the modal displayed, choose "MS Teams Meetings"
- A MS Teams entry will be created with "Single Account" as the account type.
- Switch on the toggle displayed on the right side of the MS Teams Meeting item and click Confirm from the prompt.
- You will then be redirected to your MS Teams Account to Authorize the integration/app.
Well done! You have successfully authorized Zoom. You can start adding MS Teams events to your courses.
Using MS Teams within Mindseed
- Navigate to the courses page via the admin panel here: https://{YOUR_DOMAIN}//admin/en/courses
- Choose "Create" by clicking the Create button at the top right.
- Set a title for your Course and then navigate to "LMS Content".
- Add your first Chapter.
- Then under the Chapter click "Add Task".
- Under the Events category choose "MS Teams Meetings".
- From the side burger menu choose "Events" from the top tabs.
- You only see Meetings that take place in the future and that you have already created within your MS Teams account.
- The Meeting needs to have at least one participant invited (this can also be yourself) to show up on the list.
- You can not create/delete/manage MS Teams Meetings from within Mindseed.
- If you have not yet created any MS Teams Meetings or want to apply any changes, please visit your MS Teams account and perform the necessary actions.
- Choose the MS Teams Meeting and then click the (+) icon to add the event you wish.
- Click "Confirm" in the prompt.
- The title and URL of your MS Teams event will be pre-populated for you.
- Click "Apply" from the top right to apply the changes. Once applied you will see the MS Teams meeting as a task in the chapter.
- Click "Save Content" from the top bar.
- The click "Publish Content" and from the modal prompt displayed check the "I confirm that I want to publish this content version" and choose to Publish version.
Well done! You have successfully added your first MS Teams event to a course. To see the event from your customer's perspective, please follow these steps:
- Visit your website's front end and navigate to your course catalogue. The link should be something like https://{YOUR_DOMAIN}/en/catalogue
- Find the course you have created and click Enrol. You will be enrolled to the course.
- Once enrolled click start course to go to your course.
- Find the Zoom event you have created from the right sidebar under the specified chapter.
Removing the MS Teams App/Integration
- Visit your admin interface.
- Navigate to Settings from the left sidebar menu & then choose "Authentications".
- Find the MS Teams Meeting entry you created from the "Authentications" list.
- Switch off the toggle.
- Once done, click the checkbox at the left of the MS Teams entry and then click the "Delete Selected" button.
- Click "confirm" in the prompt.
- The app will be de-authorized and you will no longer have access to your MS Teams events. All existing MS Teams events you have previously added to your courses will no longer work.
FAQ
Q: I have multiple instructors with MS Teams Accounts - how can I add them or manage the authentication?
A: Each instructor has to be invited as an admin to your mindseed account and has to add/manage/remove his MS Teams account following the steps above. You can only add one MS Teams account for each admin.
Q: What happens, if I remove an admin that has MS Teams authenticated?
A: If you delete an admin from Mindseed, the MS Teams authentication will also be deleted and corresponding meetings will no longer work.
Q: I have cancelled my MS Teams plan, can I still use MS Teams within Mindseed
A: No, it always requires an active subscription.