Start an instant meeting in Teams and share your Beekast session
Are you working remotely? 🏡
Do you want to engage your teammates?
You can start a video call and share your Interactive Beekast session at the same time. 😃
How to start a video call in Teams?
To start an instant channel meeting:
- Go to Teams
on the left side of the app. Choose the channel you want to meet in from the list. - In the Posts tab, look for Meet
in the top-right corner. From the drop-down, select Meet now. Or, to keep the context of a specific conversation, choose Reply below any post, and then Meet now
under the box where you'd type your message.
- Give your meeting a title and choose whether you want to include video.
- When you're ready, hit Join now.
Your meeting is now up and running, and anyone in the channel can join it.
- In the web browser, your video calls are available as small picture-in-picture windows, in the upper-left corner. You can resize the window to be as big or as small as desired.
- Via the native application desktop, the video calls are available in a separate window. It's up to you to toggle the windows.

To display two tabs or windows side by side on your device's screen:
- WinKey+left arrow to snap one tab to the left side of the screen
- Ctrl+N to open a new Window
- WinKey+right arrow to snap new tab instance to the right side of the screen
This double display works on any files ( Word, Excel, pictures, folders).
ButtonsOn the window of the video call, you can see
- The duration of the call
- Turn on/off camera
- Turn on/off the microphone
- Open share tray
You can also:
- show conversation
- display the list of participants
- hang up
Get more help with the MS Support
HERE
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