This guide explains how to use Outlook to create a long-term link for your Teams meetings.

Note! Create own long-term Teams online meeting link for each purpose to ensure privacy. Please note that all the messages and participants in previous online meetings will be remained. When rejoining a meeting with the same link, all the previous messages are visible to all the participants.

Desktop app

Open the calendar in the Outlook app and create a new meeting invitation with a Teams meeting:

• 1. Click “New meeting”. Then click create a Teams meeting.
• 2. Nowadays “New Teams meeting” can be founded straight from “Home”-page.

• After that, a link to join a Teams meeting appears automatically below the message. Copy the link to the meeting by right-clicking “Click here to join the meeting” and select “copy hyperlink”. Now you can paste the link, for example, into the Moodle to be shared with students. Remember to send a calendar invitation to yourself so that you can return to the link if necessary.

Browser

• 1.Open the Outlook calendar in browser.
• 2.Create a new meeting and activate the “Teams meeting”.

• 3.Send meeting invitation to yourself.
• 4.When opening the event you will see the meeting link in the information-field. Copy the link to the meeting by right-clicking “Click here to join a meeting” and select “copy hyperlink”. Now you can paste the link, for example, into the Moodle to be shared with students.

More guidance

• The visibility of chat messages in Teams-meetings (Digipedaohjeet)
• Recording Teams meetings and sharing the recording (Digipedaohjeet)