How to Add a Microsoft Teams Meeting for Office Hours in Blackboard
Blackboard users at CUNY can now create Team meetings within Blackboard using their Office 365 accounts for free. Teams meetings can be used to create, schedule, and launch their online lessons from within Blackboard.
1. Navigate to https://home.cunyfirst.cuny.edu select Blackboard
2. Log in with your CUNYfirst credentials: firstname.lastname02@login.cuny.edu(2 last digits of your Emplid)
3. After logging into Bb, you will see the name of your course please select it.
4. Then select Tools on the left hand side of the menu
5. The Tools dialog box will open, scroll down on the left hand side and click on Microsoft Teams
6. Click to Allow to Authorize Bb Learn
7. Login with your CUNYfirst credentials: firstname.lastname02@login.cuny.edu(2 last digits of your Emplid)
8. Allow pop ups in your browser
9. Click on Allow Pop Ups for Blackboard Hosted Environment
10. Log into Microsoft with your CUNYfirst credentials: firstname.lastname02@login.cuny.edu(2 last digits of your Emplid)
11. After logging click Accept on the Permissions Requested page
12. After click on Accept, click on Create a Meeting Link for your meeting in Teams
13. Follow the steps below to create a meeting in Teams
14. You can either Join the Microsoft Teams Meeting (If it is time for the meeting) or you can Add it to your Calendar to join at a later time
15. After clicking Add to Calendar it shows the link was copied to your clipboard and the meeting was added to the calendar.
16. Navigate to Tools and click on it
17. Scroll down and select the Calendar to open
18 a. Select the event from the calendar and open it.
b. Click on the event and copy the link
19. Click on Virtual Office Hours Schedule
20 a. Click on Build Content
b. then Click Web Link
21 a. Enter a title in the Name area
b. Paste the Meeting Link in the URL area
c. Click Submit