Course Home - Next Meeting

The Next Meeting feature on the course homepage provides a consistent location to tell your students where and how they will meet for classes.

Changing your "Next Meeting" settings

The instructor Settings tab. Five small tabs appear at the top labeled Instructors, Meetings, At-Risk Students, Assessment Analysis, and Import. Meetings is selected.

To specify your class meeting information, open the Settings tab on the course homepage's left menu, and then open the Meetings sub-tab at the top. You will see four options that you can select, each of which lets you specify your meeting information in a different way.

Option 1: Auto-detect online meetings from the Calendar tool

The instructor has selected the Auto-Detect Online Meetings from the Calendar option. A preview is shown across the top, listing the Next Online Meeting as occurring on January 2nd from 1pm to 4pm, with a Details button beside it.

This option is enabled by default. With Auto-Detect enabled, the Next Meeting block will look at your Calendar and try to find calendar entries with a valid Zoom or Teams link in their description. If it finds any, it will display the next one in the Next Meeting block, and provide a meeting launch button to you and your students 5 minutes before the meeting starts.

Detailed instructions on posting your Zoom or Teams meetings to your calendar can be found in the Post Your Online Class guide.

Option 2: Manually tag meetings built in the Calendar tool

The instructor has selected the Manually Tag Meetings option, and entered the word Class as their tag. A preview is shown across the top, listing the next Weekly Class as occurring on January 3rd from 3pm to 5pm, with a Details button beside it.

If you don't teach online but still want your class times to be loaded in the Calendar and displayed in the Next Meeting block, your best option is probably the Manually Tag option. When you select this option, you can add any keyword of your choice into the "My Title Tag" field, then click Save Next Meet Settings at the bottom.

Next, go to Course Tools -> Calendar and manually create calendar events (either many individual events, or one recurring event series). Make sure that all of these events contain the keyword that you specified.

If you've done that correctly, the Next Meeting block will look through your Calendar tool and find all entries with the specified keyword in their titles, and display day and time of the next one it found.

Option 3: Write a short description of your meeting schedule

The instructor has selected the Write a Short Description option. They have entered title 'In-Person', and typed the day, time, and room number of the weekly class.

The easiest option to configure. When you select this option, you manually type a title for the meeting series (e.g., "In-Person", or "Class Time"), and then type a short description of where and how you will meeting. That title and description will be shown in the Next Meeting block.

Option 4: Do not display the Next Meeting section on the homepage

With this option selected, the Next Meeting block will not appear at all. This is often used in Asynchronous courses that do not meet for classes.