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Description
This article provides guidance on using Microsoft Teams as an alternative to Zoom.
Overview of Microsoft Teams Meetings
Zoom feature → Teams equivalent
Zoom scheduler → Recurring meetings
Waiting room → Lobby
Personal meeting room → Recurring meetings for virtual office hours
Share entire screen, window or app → Screen sharing
Breakout rooms → Breakout rooms
Engagement features (polls, reactions) → Reactions, raise hands, and polls
Annotate tools → Annotation
Zoom whiteboard → Whiteboard
Record to cloud, then upload manually → Recordings & Transcripts
Meeting attendance report → Attendance
Spotlight and focus mode → Video spotlight and focus mode
Pin mode → Sign language Interpreters
Zoom notes → Agenda, notes and tasks
Roles in Teams Meeting
Organizer
Full control, including managing breakout rooms, muting participants, and changing meeting options.
Co-organizer
Shares many of the organizer's permissions, such as muting participants, managing the meeting, and controlling breakout rooms.
Presenter
Can share content, manage Q&A, and assist with facilitating the meeting.
Attendee
Limited to participating in the chat and viewing shared content, without control over the meeting. If someone is not an attendee
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