To deliver content, hold office hours, or host meetings in a live (synchronous) format, Brock supports the use of the following video conferencing tools.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a tool that can support up to 300 concurrent users per meeting and can be used in your teaching to create discussion spaces, encourage collaboration and student engagement, develop teamwork, and work collectively towards a common learning outcome. It allows for synchronous moments (lectures, meetings, office hours), student collaboration, and interactivity. It is not for assignment submission, testing, grade calculations, and other linear, transactional and structured content (see Isaak/Sakai for more on this).

Microsoft Teams is a computer platform available as both an application that can be downloaded to a computer or a mobile device, as well as a web application. Note that it is a recommended course of action to download the computer application as there are a more robust set of features and options available. Everyone with a BrockU account can access and download Teams.

Any Teams meeting or call can be recorded to capture audio, video, and screen sharing activity. All recordings are saved to MS Stream.

It is important to note that the default Teams Meeting Options are set to allow all attendees to present. This means that people outside the class can be invited to the meeting by any member of the meeting. This can lead to unwelcome (and potentially disruptive) participants joining the meeting. It is important to note that eliminating all possibilities of unwelcome participants is not part of the technical capabilities of Teams, but you can minimize the risk by being aware of the Roles in a meeting, changing a participant’s role, muting, or removing them from the call.