There are several features in Microsoft Teams that help you facilitate better meetings and be a better meeting participant.
Learn how to show your screen during a meeting, work in Teams during a meeting, use live captions, and use whiteboard during meetings.
The following video help you manage your Teams meetings. Click on each of the links to watch:
Overview of Teams meeting features: Link
Share your screen: Link
Keep working during a Teams meeting: Link
Learn more about Live Captions:
Use live captions in a Teams meeting
Teams can detect what’s said in a meeting and present real-time captions. And, if you've turned on the new meeting experience, your captions will include speaker attribution—so you'll see not only what's being said, but who's saying it.
Note
Captions are only available in English (US) for now.
Live captions can make your meeting more inclusive to participants who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, people with different levels of language proficiency, and participants in loud places by giving them another way to follow along.
Note
Teams doesn't save captions.
Turn captions on and off
To use live captions in a meeting, go to your meeting controls and select More options > Turn on live captions.
To stop using live captions, go to the meeting controls and select More options > Turn off live captions.
Get the most out of your captions
To make sure your live captions are as accurate as possible, try to follow these best practices:
- Speak clearly, slowly, and directly into the mic. As your distance from the mic increases, captions may become less accurate.
- Avoid locations with background noise.
- Avoid having multiple people speak at the same time.
Raise your hand
During a meeting, you can raise a virtual hand to let people know you want to contribute without interrupting the conversation.
Just select Show reactions in the meeting controls, and then choose Raise your hand
. Everyone in the meeting will see that you've got your hand up.
Meeting presenters will also receive a notification that your hand is raised. In meetings where attendees can't unmute themselves, a presenter can then allow you to unmute.
Tip: In addition to raising your hand, you can also choose from four live reactions to express yourself during a meeting.
Select Show participants to see a list of everyone in attendance. Anyone who's raised their hand will have an icon next to their name. When multiple people raise their hands, they'll be listed in the order in which they raised them.
Read the attached Guidance for further information.