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In Microsoft Entra ID, there are different types of identities that are supported. The terms you’ll hear and are introduced in this unit are user identities, workload identities, device identities, external identities, and hybrid identities. Each of these terms is described in more detail in the sections that follow.

When you ask the question, to what can I assign an identity in Microsoft Entra ID, there are three categories.

• You can assign identities to people (humans). Examples of identities assigned to people are employees of an organization that are typically configured as internal users, and external users that include customers, consultants, vendors, and partners. For our purposes, we’ll refer to these as user identities.
• You can assign identities to physical devices, such as mobile phones, desktop computers, and IoT devices.
• Lastly, you can assign identities to software-based objects, such as applications, virtual machines, services, and containers. These identities are referred to as workload identities.

Microsoft Entra ID, formerly Azure Active Directory, is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service. Organizations use Microsoft Entra ID to enable their employees, guests, and others to sign in and access the resources they need, including:

• Internal resources, such as apps on your corporate network and intranet, and cloud apps developed by your own organization.
• External services, such as Microsoft Office 365, the Azure portal, and any SaaS applications used by your organization.

Microsoft Entra ID simplifies the way organizations manage authorization and access by providing a single identity system for their cloud and on-premises applications. Microsoft Entra ID can be synchronized with your existing on-premises Active Directory, synchronized with other directory services, or used as a standalone service.

Microsoft Entra ID also allows organizations to securely enable the use of personal devices, such as mobiles and tablets, and enable collaboration with business partners and customers.

In a meeting, there’s a place and time for whole group discussions, individual discussions, and small group discussions. Teams is the place for all of them.

With breakout rooms, educators can break the class or a group of colleagues into groups for discussion and collaboration. Educators must be a meeting organizer or a presenter designated as a breakout room manager to create breakout rooms.

Breakout rooms come with options to:

• Choose the number of breakout rooms needed
• Assign participants to groups automatically or manually
• Move participants between rooms
• Send announcements to each group
• Move between rooms to visit
• Automatically end all group meetings and bring everyone back to the main meeting

Educators want to ensure their audience is engaged throughout a Teams meeting.

Use reactions in Teams meetings

An effective way to increase engagement is to use audience participation. With live reactions such as “like,” “heart,” “applause,” “laugh,” and “surprise,” attendees can participate in the meeting even when they’re muted. Allow for spontaneous expression or prompt learners to react. The icons appear briefly in the lower part of the educator’s screen while content is being presented. If no content is being presented, the reactions appear over the video tile or the profile icon of the attendee who sent it. Because audience participation isn’t always appropriate, educators can turn off this setting.

Teams makes it easy to share content during live meetings. Educators can:

• Share computer sound to stream audio from their computer to meeting participants. They can use it to play a video or audio clip as part of a presentation.
• Share their entire screen, including notifications and other desktop activity. Sharing the desktop is a great option when educators need to seamlessly share multiple windows.
• Share just one window (without notifications or desktop activity). Sharing a window works well when educators only need to show one thing and want to keep the rest of their screen to themselves.
• Start a Microsoft Whiteboard to collaborate virtually with others in real time.
• Share content from the presenter’s camera. Educators can use their device’s camera to share a nearby physical whiteboard or live video in real time. They can also use an external camera to share a document.
• Collaborate live by sharing a file that everyone can work on together.
• Present from PowerPoint Live. Educators can see their speaker notes, slides, and audience while they present.

View options help learners and colleagues connect in meaningful and personalized ways. By default, Teams smartly resizes participant thumbnails and content based on the scenario.

Gallery views in Teams meetings

Microsoft is changing the way educators, learners, and colleagues see each other—literally! By default, Teams meetings begin in the Gallery view, which, as attendees join, automatically expands to a 3×3 gallery to show up to 9 people. Educators can change their default view to a 4×4 gallery to show up to 16 people.

Microsoft Teams is always working to provide educators and learners ways to personalize and optimize their live and collaborative meeting experiences. While educators can manage meeting settings before the call in the meeting invitation, they can also manage them during the live call.

Within the meeting options, educators can:

• Require attendees to wait in the lobby while educators prepare for the call
• Prevent attendees from sharing their screens by setting who is a presenter
• Control attendees’ use of microphones and cameras
• Determine if attendees can use reactions

Teams is a centralized hub and real-time meeting space for online meetings and presentations. Live broadcasting and video features let presenters connect and collaborate with members and guests in real time. Additionally, accessibility features are available throughout Microsoft 365 and Microsoft products.

In a Teams meeting, Teams can detect speech and generate real-time captions. It then adds live closed captions to the screen with speaker attribution. Monthly faculty meetings, class observation briefings, or any other staff meeting held in Teams can benefit from the live captioning feature.

Sometimes educators don’t have time to schedule a meeting. A learner is absent, a guardian has a question about an upcoming event, or a colleague wants to discuss last-minute needs for tomorrow’s assembly. Outlook and Teams offer options to start a meeting immediately.

Start an impromptu meeting

Select Meet Now wherever it’s available to open the Teams meeting window.

Invite attendees to the meeting

There are three ways to invite others to join the impromptu meeting:

• Copy the link to the meeting
• Add participants
• Share via their default email app

Microsoft Teams is integrated into the rest of Microsoft Office. This integration makes it easy to create a meeting, whether it’s immediate or in the future. Both Microsoft Outlook and Teams offer options to schedule a meeting.

Scheduling Teams meetings is quick and easy. All educators need to do is:

1. Create a subject for the meeting.
2. Add attendees.
3. Find a common time that works for everyone using the scheduling assistant.

Schedule meetings in Outlook

The Teams Meeting option under the calendar tab in Outlook makes meeting creation as easy as sending an email. Think of the title of the meeting as the subject line of the email. Required attendees are like the “To” field, and optional attendees are like the cc field.