Stray meetings in Microsoft Teams
Unwanted, stranded meetings, overlapping with a general one in a channel, can occur when people click on the Meet (now)/📷 button, instead of clicking on the same Join button in the chat field. This may especially happen to those who reach the channel first, or who cannot see the Join button in the chat field because this field has been taken up by messages.
To prevent students from creating or joining stray meetings, the channel lead can direct students to a single meeting link in the chat field, which could be upward ion this field, and to avoid the Meet (now)/📷 button at the top right in channels.
Further background
“Hi All, in Microsoft Teams, if multiple people click the ‘Meet (now)’ button in a channel, what happens?”
More advanced tip to have meeting links ready in each channel
Pablo Bernabeu
Postdoctoral fellow at UiT –
The Arctic University of Norway
After doing a research master's, I became a PhD student and graduate teaching assistant in Psychology at Lancaster University, where I investigated how conceptual processing—that is, the comprehension of the meaning of words—is supported by linguistic and sensorimotor brain systems, and how research on this topic is influenced by methodological aspects such as the operationalisation of variables and the sample size of experiments. Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, where I am investigating the behavioural and neural underpinnings of multilingualism. Throughout my research, I have used methods such as behavioural and electroencephalographic experiments, corpus analysis, statistics and programming. Research materials at https://osf.io/25u3x. CV available here.