Teams - Meet - Schedule Meetings - Including Students & External Users

Summary

Schedule a meeting & also one that includes students or external users

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Description:

Stay in sync with scheduled Teams meetings, where you can collaborate with your team, present content, and much more.  You can use MS teams to meet with faculty, staff, students and external users.

Instructions:

Follow these links for detailed instructions: 

Schedule a meeting in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Support - Deeper dive article!

Invite people to a meeting in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Support

Students

  • Students will show up in MS teams meetings as external users, and you may get a warning about external participants. 
  • If you set your meeting to only allow people in your organization to bypass the lobby/waiting room, you will need to admit any students or other external users when they join.
  • As a faculty/staff member inviting a student to a teams meeting, their name will show up without a middle initial. If you see a middle initial, that is likely a Student worker staff account for that same person. You want to use their student account, which is the one without the middle initial.

External

  • If you are trying to add someone with a gmail, yahoo, or other email address, you want to do so when creating the event.
    1. Type their full email in the "Invite required attendees" or "Invite optional attendees".
      add external attendee email to teams meeting
    2. Click on their email/name if it auto populates or click on "use this address" after you have typed in their full email address.
      Click on use this address after you have entered the full email.

Additional Info/Resources: 

Need a quick Impromptu meeting instead of scheduled? Learn about Impromptu meetings

See 'Related Articles' for additional information.

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Article ID: 11061
Created
Tue 6/2/26 10:43 AM
Modified
Fri 6/12/26 1:44 PM

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