You can find here the information to access your classes remotely through Microsoft Teams.
At CATÓLICA-LISBON we want you to have an engaging learning experience. In order to facilitate remote learning, our courses will be held through Microsoft Teams. Students and professors can seamlessly work together, create content, and share resources all from a single, easy-to-learn and simple-to-use platform.
How to Access Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams Tutorials
Get started with distance learning. You can find here a collection of reference manuals to support you achieve the best academic performance within your lessons using Teams.
Teams Quick Start Guide Teams First Login Guide Join a Breakout Room Guide
FAQ
Microsoft Teams is an application from the Office 365 Suite that CATÓLICA-LISBON is using to host online courses and remote classes.
Please note that, during the adaptation period to this new platform, you may have classes through different software. Your professor can choose to use Microsoft Teams or another video conference platform.
The professor is responsible for sharing the access link to their courses if they opt for a different platform.
The University has sent to you an email with the subject UCP: Credenciais de acesso/ Access Credentials. This email contains the user email and initial password that you must use to activate your account in your first access to Microsoft Teams through Office 365 Suite website (portal.office.com).
If you are unable to find this email in your inbox, please check the junk folder or spam folder. If you are still missing this email, please contact the Teams Student Support in order to have it resent to you.
Teams Student Support Team
No. You must use the Access Credentials sent via email (email subject UCP: Credenciais de acesso/ Access Credentials) and with the new password created during your first access to portal.office.com.
Your user email must follow the template below:
s-yourstudentnumber@ucp.pt
In order to use Microsoft Teams features as a student, you must authenticate your account.
If you don’t activate your student account, you will not be able to access your courses assignments, courses material, courses working groups and your professor cannot help you with your performance during the trimester.
Yes, however we don’t recommend that you prolong this situation. If your professor shared the classroom link in Moodle or via email, you can access your classes as guest. You just have to open the classroom link in a browser and follow the access instructions.
However, if you don’t activate your student account, you will not be able to access your courses assignments, courses material, courses working groups and your professor cannot help you with your performance during the trimester.
First of all, you should try to verify if you are following the received access instructions correctly. Second, you have to check if you are using the correct access credentials. Third, you can clean your browser cookies and cache in order to avoid data overlap.
If you see an error message in the end of your credentials validation process or if you are still with problems to login, please contact the Teams Student Support.
Teams Student Support Team
We recommend that you try to check first your email junk folder or spam folder before contacting our services. If you don’t find the email in your email account, please contact the Teams Student Support.
Teams Student Support Team
Email: teams.student.support.clsbe@ucp.pt
Your courses should appear in your “Teams” area of Microsoft Teams platform. The “Teams” area is located on the App bar of your Microsoft Teams personal area.
If you don’t find your courses, you can search for your courses using the Microsoft Teams command box. Additionally, you will be able to find your course through the classroom link which your professor shared with you in Moodle or via email.
Please note that only your professor can accept you to their courses.
More Information
For more information and to clarify doubts please contact the Teams Student Support Team