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After a class session in Teams have you ever had trouble finding your attendance record, transcript, or recording? This is probably because the “thread” for your meeting was collapsed. Teams creates a new thread for each scheduled meeting and everything relevant to that meeting is stored inside it.

To find what you’re looking for:

Un-collapse the thread to view the entire conversation from the meeting by clicking on the text that says # replies from you, etc. etc. (next to the black arrow in the picture above), and
Scroll down to the bottom of the thread to find your attendance record, transcript, or recording (assuming you made one).

Teams collapses these messages into a thread to keep the channel feed uncluttered and organized - the stuff that goes together is all in one spot - so you don’t have to scroll through every message in the Team to find what you are looking for.

Here is a quick video showing you how to un-collapse a thread in MS Teams.

Your students may be having the same issue! If you hear from your students that they are having trouble finding recordings, etc. you can remind them to un-collapse the thread or to access the recordings via the folder in the “Files” section of the Team. If you missed it, check out Tip #3 on Managing Recordings.