GreyWhirly

Yes, I agree about GfE ... do you use the native Google editors for documents etc, or still with MS Word, Excel etc? I think I would have a hard time trying to tear the staff away from their beloved (!) MS offerings!

OK thanks @Ditto and @Roberto - I will have a try out next week with some colleagues who are working from home and will use their personal email addresses to invite them. I wouldn't say I was "down the road" with Teams ... more like running down a slope with no brakes! It's been an interesting couple of weeks to say the least! We had intended on evaluating O365 vs Google Edu to see which one suited us best ... but once the pandemic hit, as all staff already have an O365 account, it seemed easier just to go down that route and get Teams setup. I am mindful however of doing things now that might have implications later on ... so am trying to set things up in such a way as they will be sustainable later. I was hoping (in the future) to migrate all the teacher planning docs and resources that are currently held on network shares to a cloud solution ... so now that we have started down the O365 route I guess my next thing would be to look at how I can use Sharepoint to achieve this ... as I think I read that SP is better for this than OneDrive ...? We do also have a Google Edu account setup - but I am wary of having a foot in both camps ... although I love being able to control the use of YouTube clips via GfE! I think our staff prefer the MS look and feel of OneDrive/Sharepoint - and also editing docs in real Word, etc. I'm still a bit torn between GfE and O365 ... I like bits of both of them!

Hi there, My first post! I am looking for a bit of advice/help with regards to providing our SLT/governors with a way of holding gov meetings by video. The CoG is keen to use Zoom ... but I have read lots of reasons as to why this not be the best tool to use, so am looking to see if there is a way to allow them to participate in video conference meetings using MS Teams, or similar. There would be up to 10 of them 'attending'. We have just recently setup MS Teams and at the moment, only our SLT/Admin staff are using it. I have spent the last couple of weeks trying to come up to speed with it all! I have created a couple of different Teams (as have also been reading about teams vs channels) and will assign the relevant users to their teams. Our governors do not have O365 accounts, as they use their personal email addresses (but login to a secure site to access governor documents). Is Teams an option for video meetings for them (as the meetings will be scheduled by members of our SLT who are in Teams) I have read that external people can be invited into a Team call. Or is there something else they could use? Any advice would be much appreciated! Thank you!