Microsoft Teams (Office 365)
Interactive Teams tutorial for Parents, Guardians and Students >
Covered in this tutorial:
- How to sign into Office 365 o Find the Teams app
- Join a Class Team with code o Navigate between Teams
- View and reply to posts o Access calendar
- Join a Teams meeting
- Interact during meeting
- Mute/unmute
- Chat function
- Raise hand
- Assignments
- View assignments
- View assignment rubric
- Listen to assignment instructions with Immersive Reader
- Attach work to an assignment
- Turn in assignments
- View assignments
- Class Notebook
Other resources
- Step-by-step PDF introduction to Teams for Parents and Guardians >
- Remote learning with Office 365 for students (video introductions to Teams for students) >
- Get started in your class (Microsoft Teams for Education support page) >
If you require additional support
Please email wqsbhelpdesk@wqsb.qc.ca and include in your email the following:
- student’s name
- grade level
- school
- best phone number to contact you as a follow-up (if necessary)
- issue/problem clearly described
If you do not have access to email, and require support on connecting the student’s device or support in logging into O365, please call 819-777-9650 between 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM Monday to Friday.
Friendly reminder: avoid using email accounts outside the WQSB system. Student accounts can only receive and send email within our WQSB context. For Kinder to Cycle 1 families, and families with special needs students, passwords will require a prefix (Wqsb) for the numeric password, for example: Wqsb1234.
Google G Suite for Education
Google resources for parents/guardians
- Google for Education Tech Toolkit for Families (PDF) >
- This toolkit is for educators and allows them to share resources to learn more about Google’s technology with Families and Guardians
- When parents become teachers: tools to help students at home (blog post) >
- Google Junior Training Series (videos) >
- 2-minute videos, breaking down regular tasks students are asked to perform in GSuite
- Only 4 out of 70 are key videos:
- Chromebook: Taking Care of a Chromebook
- G Suite: Signing in
- G Suite: Managing Multiple Google Accounts
- G Suite: Switching Accounts on a Shared Device
If you require additional support
Please email wqsbhelpdesk@wqsb.qc.ca and include in your email the following:
- student’s name
- grade level
- school
- best phone number to contact you as a follow-up (if necessary)
- issue/problem clearly described
If you do not have access to email, and require support on connecting the student’s device or support in logging into O365, please call 819-777-9650 between 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM Monday to Friday.
Friendly reminder: avoid using email accounts outside the WQSB system. Student accounts can only receive and send email within our WQSB context. For Kinder to Cycle 1 families, and families with special needs students, passwords will require a prefix (Wqsb) for the numeric password, for example: Wqsb1234.