MS Teams Live Events / Town Halls

This one-day course is designed for expert users of Microsoft Teams who need organise and deliver Town Halls (formerly known as Live Events). You will learn about the different roles, responsibilities, and capabilities within Town Halls, and how to allocate roles and schedule the event. You will also learn the basic skills necessary to Produce and Present during a Town Hall.

Course Overview

Learn how to confidently plan, set up and deliver large-scale broadcasts using Microsoft Teams Live Events. Ideal for company-wide announcements, webinars or town hall meetings. This one-day course is designed for expert users of Teams, and so there will not be time to recap the basic functions of Teams. If you need to learn these skills, take a look at our New User and Meetings and Interactive Features online courses.

Why take this course?

  • Discover the difference between standard meetings and Live Events
  • Learn how to set up and manage large broadcasts
  • Reduce the stress of presenting to large audiences
  • Improve communication and engagement at scale

Who is this course for?

Anyone responsible for organising or hosting large-scale company updates, webinars or town halls using Microsoft Teams.

You will learn about the different roles, responsibilities and capabilities of the Town Hall feature (formerly known as Live Events). You will learn about the importance of planning, how to allocate roles and schedule an event. By the end of the session, you will also learn the skills necessary to Produce and/or Present during a Town Hall.

To take part in this course, you will need:

  • A short PowerPoint presentation, to be used during the session
  • A microphone or headset and a webcam
  • The desktop version of MS Teams (Town Halls is not available in the web app)
  • To install Zoom (the link to join and install the software will be sent to you once you have booked your place)

Duration

1 day

Classroom size

8 approx.

Location

Online or Classroom

Certificate

1 Certification

Experience

Advanced

What you will learn

  • Key responsibilities of a Team Owner
  • Manage membership, roles, and access permissions
  • Create and organise channels and tabs
  • Configure settings to support collaboration and productivity

Course Timetable

This course will be taught in the latest version of the software. We can train this in older versions if needed – please get in touch for more information and availability.

Getting Started

  • What is a Town Hall? (formerly known as a Live Event)
  • Technical considerations
  • Roles
  • The importance of rehearsals

Scheduling a Town Hall

  • Create a Town Hall
  • Invite presenters
  • Chat with Presenters
  • Invite attendees
  • Settings

Producing a Town Hall

  • The Town Hall interfaces
  • Managing presenters
  • Managing the Queue

Ready to take the next step?

We are here to help!

This course is only available as a one-to-one or private group booking.

For pricing and availability, send us a message using the form, leave us a message on 020 7375 7300, or speak to an Account Manager straight away using our Live Chat service in the bottom right of your screen!

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Looking for Private Group Training?

If you have three or more learners, a private group training could be cheaper.

We can tailor the content to your team, and host the training remotely, at your workplace or here at Happy’s HQ in Aldgate, Central London.

The Happy guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course.

We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

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Classroom or live online learning available

Both available for public and private dates.

The small print

For Live Online Interactive Learning sessions (webinars)

The course will run remotely for a full day consisting of three 90-minute live online sessions with independent work in between. 

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven’t received this email then please contact our team.

Learners should log into the session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. Unfortunately you will be asked to leave and attend a different day if you arrive more than 15 minutes late for online sessions, and more than 30 minutes late for classroom sessions.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For classroom sessions

All public classroom sessions take place at Happy’s HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.

The course will run from 10am to 4:45pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9:45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

FAQs

What if I have a Mac?

If you are a Mac user, please let us know when booking. If the course is held in the classroom at Happy, the training is held on PCs so we recommend that you bring your Macbook with you (we are not able to provide an additional monitor). For online training, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.