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Become a Great Producer with MS Teams and Hosting Meetings and Events

What You'll Learn in Become a Great Producer with MS Teams and Hosting Meetings and Events

Course Length:

3 hours (1/2 day)

Learning Objectives

  • Learn the theory behind producing an effective meeting
  • Understand the importance of planning and rehearsing before the virtual meeting
  • Feel confident in your ability to execute a virtual meeting for your organization

Target Student

This course is for those who want to gain confidence producing virtual events using Microsoft Teams.

Course Outline

This course is available for WebEx or Zoom for private group training upon request.


Lesson 1 – Theory

  • Roles of a Session Producer, Host (Meeting Organizer), Presenters, Attendees
  • Filling out Session Producer checklist
  • Dry run the presentation
  • How to set up my PowerPoint slides for online usage
  • Ensuring session participants are engaged, active and present


Lesson 2 - Show time

  • Brief demo of MS Teams
  • Logging into session
  • Resending online meeting link
  • Organizer changing roles from Presenter to Attendee
  • Polls: Pre-setup, Microsoft Forms
  • Breakout rooms
  • Turning on and off your audio, video
  • Whiteboard, emojis, raising your hand
  • Your background - what is behind you? Do you need to clean your visual space? Virtual Backgrounds


Lesson 3 - Can you hear me?

  • Troubleshooting audio problems
  • Troubleshooting video problems


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Become a Great Producer with MS Teams and Hosting Meetings and Events

Upcoming Classes

All Public classes are held online
with a live instructor

No dates have been scheduled for this class. Please contact us for more information or request a private class.

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  • Anytime after-training support for 30 days
  • Bilingual training, manuals & post-training support available

This course comes with

PDF Reference Guide

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Use Your Own Files

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