You can create MS Teams Meetings from within your Brightspace course page. The link to this meeting will be available in your Brightspace environment to all the users enrolled in it without the need of creating a whole team in MS Teams. This will allow you to use the features of Teams’ meetings without the need for managing an additional platform besides Brightspace. 

This option has the following limitations, once the meeting is created it is not possible to edit the settings and the recording can only be found in MS Streams. Make use of this option when you do not have a need for a collaboration platform in your course, and you only have a single or a few online meetings in which you have more than 150 students or really require certain MS Teams Meetings features (e.g. taking over students’ screen control or sharing the audio channel). 

You can create a whole team for your course in MS Teams to not only host meetings but exchange files, create communication channels, and facilitate collaboration between users. 

Make use of the option to create a team in MS Teams when you need an online collaboration platform, to facilitate collaboration and group work among and with students, e.g. sharing documents, working together, organise (unsupervised) meetings. This option allows also to have multiple simultaneous meetings, organised in break-out channels if desired, and share recordings of meetings held in the Team, also with students who did not attend.