The text appears alongside the meeting video or audio in real time, including the speaker’s name (unless they chose to hide it) and a time stamp. ĭuring any scheduled Teams meeting, you can start a live transcription of participant speech. This is an invaluable tool for anyone needing to take notes or minutes during a meeting while participating at the same time. The file will also be time-stamped to the Streams recording. If you were the meeting organizer and the person who started the recording and transcription, you can locate and download the file after the meeting’s conclusion. What Transcription does is open a panel on the right that will transcribe what is being said and by whom. I don’t like to take my notes in the Teams meeting itself as everyone can see it, so I’m usually flipping between OneNote and Teams, which is clumsy at best. As someone who frequently performs technology sales consultations, eliciting high-level requirements and note-taking at the same time can be a challenge, especially if you’re trying to run a Teams meeting, be present, and take accurate notes. Attendees cannot be seen or heard by the presenters, but can participate in discussions using a moderated Q&A chat function.The new Transcription feature in Microsoft Teams is alone well worth the price of admission. Attendees join via a shared URL link and can only view the content the hosts decide to make live. Unlike regular Teams meetings, Teams Live meetings are not designed to be a chat-based collaborative events but instead one-to-many communications where the hosts/producers are guiding the presenter-led interactions. It is an extension of Teams Meetings and uses all the familiar tools and layout of a normal Teams meeting but with the ability to control the presentation of the meeting more and, importantly, go past the current 350 attendee limit. Teams Live Events is designed to be used for large-scale information dissemination such as town hall meetings, departmental updates, broadcasting keynotes or online training at scale. It is especially useful if you are presenting to an audience outside of the University as attendees can watch via a web URL link and don’t have to log in. Teams Live Events is a feature within Microsoft Teams that enables Oxford University staff to schedule, produce and broadcast meetings to a large online audience up to 10,000 and is supported by the Educational Media team and their support documentation. Read more about shared channels in Teams here - Shared channels in Microsoft Teams (Preview) - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs Up to 50 shared channels can be created per team and like private channels, once a shared channel is deleted it will take 30 days until it is hard-deleted. These are still in public preview but will be released to mainstream teams soon. Shared Channels can also be shared with individuals or teams in other organisations. Shared Channels (Preview) are a new type of channel that allow you to set up extended sharing privileges safely within teams, if you have content that you want to share with people or teams external to your own team.
Find out more about private channels here - Private channels in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs Teams can have up to 30 private channels but when a private channel is deleted, it will still count as one of the 30 channels until 30 days after it is deleted, when it will be purged from the team. Private Channel memberships can be separate and even the Team Owners can be excluded from their membership (though we advise against this to avoid any instances of 'orphaned' channels). Private Channels allow you to set up a channel with exclusive membership for scenarios where you want to create content that is not shared with the entire team.As well as generic channels shared with your entire team, there are two 'special' Teams channel types that allow you to control access, and share content safely with people outside of your team.