See what Microsoft Teams integration changes at your institution
Before vs. after connecting Microsoft Teams to iVake
Where you are today
Holding you back
Paying for teams, teaching elsewhere
The institution holds Microsoft 365 licences, but classes run on another video tool because Teams was never linked to academics.
Pain point
Every course set up by hand
A teacher creates the team, copies students from a class list, schedules each meeting and emails the link.
Pain point
Two logins, or the wrong account
Students juggle a portal login and a Teams login, and some join with personal Microsoft accounts IT cannot manage.
Pain point
Attendance on an honour system
Online attendance is a form students fill in themselves, and a dispute means asking IT for the Teams activity log.
Pain point
- 3+Tools used to run one online course
- 2+Logins for every student
- DaysTo settle an attendance dispute
Your institution, transformed
Everything connected
Teams used for teaching
Course teams and class meetings come from iVake, so the Microsoft 365 licences you hold carry academic delivery.
Solved
A team ready on day one
Each section has its team with enrolled students in it, and meetings appear as the timetable is published.
Solved
One Microsoft sign-in
Staff and students use their institutional Microsoft account through Entra ID, for iVake and for Teams.
Solved
Attendance from the meeting record
Join and leave times from each Teams meeting are written to the attendance register, so a dispute has evidence.
Solved
- 1Institutional account per student
- 0Class lists copied into Teams
- 1Register for online and classroom attendance
Ready to make the switch? See how it works for your institution.
Microsoft 365 licences put to academic use
If your institution already pays for Microsoft 365 Education, the tools for online teaching are in place. iVake links them to the academic record, so Teams carries classes and not only staff meetings.
- Course teams and class meetings created from iVake, not by each teacher
- Team members taken from enrolment, with no manual invitations
- Sign-in through Microsoft Entra ID, with no new credentials to manage
Course set-up that follows the timetable
The academic record is the source. When a section exists its team exists, when periods are published the meetings appear, and when a student changes section the membership follows without IT stepping in.
- A team for each course section, created before the first class
- Timetable periods scheduled as Teams meetings, visible in the student app
- Adds, drops and section changes reflected in team membership
One sign-in, and attendance nobody retypes
Microsoft Entra ID handles sign-in for iVake and Teams alike, and each meeting’s attendance report becomes the register entry. Teachers teach; nobody copies names out of a chat window.
- Institutional Microsoft accounts for staff and students, closed when someone leaves
- Join time, leave time and duration written to the attendance register after class
- Disputes settled against a timestamped record, not memory or a sign-in form
Microsoft Teams Integration features
Everything you need to run academic delivery on Microsoft Teams
Course teams
A team for each course section, created from the academic structure.
Timetable meetings
Periods scheduled as Teams meetings, updated when the timetable changes.
Roster sync
Team membership taken from enrolment, adds and drops included.
Entra ID sign-in
One institutional Microsoft account for iVake and for Teams.
Attendance reports
Online and classroom attendance in the same register and reports.
Role-based access
Access set by campus, department, programme and role.
Term-end archiving
Course teams archived on the academic calendar, records kept in iVake.
Audit trail
Team, membership and meeting changes logged with the actor.
Frequently asked questions
Get answers to common questions about Microsoft Teams integration
What does our IT administrator need to set up in Microsoft Entra ID?
An administrator registers iVake as an application in your Entra ID tenant and grants the Microsoft Graph permissions it needs to create teams, manage members and schedule meetings. It is done once for the institution, not per teacher or per course, and the permissions can be reviewed or revoked from your tenant at any time.
Which Microsoft 365 licence does our institution need?
The integration works with the Microsoft 365 Education licence your institution holds for Teams. Some meeting features, such as recording, depend on your plan, so confirm what yours includes with your Microsoft partner before rollout.
What happens when a student adds or drops a course mid-term?
The change made in iVake flows through to team membership: the student joins the new course team and leaves the old one, without a teacher or IT making the change in Teams by hand.
Does attendance work the same from a phone and the desktop app?
Yes. Attendance comes from the meeting’s attendance report, which records joins from the Teams desktop app, the mobile app and a browser alike. Your rules for late joins and early exits apply in the same way whichever one a student uses.
What happens to course teams when the term ends?
You decide. Teams can be archived on the academic calendar, keeping messages and files read-only, or left open for a period so students can refer back. Attendance already written to iVake stays on the student’s record whatever happens to the team.
We already use Teams for departments and staff. Will this interfere?
No. Course teams follow a naming pattern taken from the academic structure, such as course code, section and year, and the integration manages only the teams it creates. Existing departmental teams are left as they are.
Cloud, hosted in your region- REST API & webhooks
- SSO: Google, Microsoft & SAML
- Encrypted, backed up daily
- Built for the DPDP Act
- Full security details
Built for your institution type
See how this feature works for your specific institution
UniversitiesCourse teams across every campus and programme
Degree collegesSemester sections with membership kept current
CBSE, ICSE & state-board schoolsOnline classes on accounts the school issues
ITIs, polytechnics & skill centresOnline batches with training hours counted- Coaching institutesBatches set up and archived on schedule
Professional collegesAttendance disputes settled from the meeting’s timestamps
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