Office 365 Faculty Docs

The most common way instructors publish lectures, or lecture materials, to an online course is with PowerPoint.  PowerPoint is easy, efficient, and most instructors know how to use it.  However, most instructors upload their entire presentation file to the online course, which gives students an editable version of their work.  Fortunately, PowerPoint has advanced give instructors’ options for publishing and sharing their work with students.

Previous support guides have discussed how to install Skype for Business and what the Meeting function of Skype could do.  The following guide discusses how to schedule meetings and invite students to a meeting.  Skype has the ability to create “right now” meeting sessions, or schedule those sessions in advance, and invite groups or individuals to those meetings.  This support guide focuses on walking uses through this process.

The following is a quick setup guide for creating a web conference session with Skype for Business.  This guide assumes the creator/owners of the meeting has already installed the Skype for Business desktop application and has logged into Skype for Business.  If you have not, please read the Skype for Business – Getting Started before moving forward.