When using a speaker phone in a classroom or conference room, the speaker phone call may be placed on hold in the lobby for the online session/meeting. To avoid this hold, you as the instructor or the meeting organizer — or even another Marquette participant — should join the meeting early with the Teams desktop software. Joining early with the Teams desktop software ensures lobby bypass for the speaker phone.

Note: If you're joining on a speaker phone in a conference room and on your laptop via the Teams software at the same, be sure to mute the microphone on your laptop. Having two active microphones in the same room will create audio problems for all meeting participants.

Joining a Teams Audio Conference as an Meeting Organizer

1. Go to your calendar in Outlook on the Web Calendar, Microsoft Outlook calendar, or Microsoft Teams calendar.

2. Double-click to open the specific calendar event item for your online class session or meeting. If you single-click, a pop-up preview of the event may appear, and the preview may not show you what you need.

3. Details appear, as pictured below. Note the call-in phone number and Phone Conference ID.

4. Using the speaker phone keypad, enter the Phone Conference ID, including the # pound sign. If you are using the Teams PIN to start the meeting, press the * star key. You are prompted to enter your five-digit PIN followed by the # pound sign.

5. The speaker phone joins the meeting as an audio conference.