How to Share a Simulation in Microsoft Teams

If your school runs on Microsoft Teams, you can share a simulation in Microsoft Teams in under a minute, and students open it without signing up for anything new. This guide covers the four ways to do it with Simulic: the Teams button on the Share page, the play link in an assignment, a Website tab in the class team, and present mode during a Teams meeting. You will also see how to collect students' answers on the simulation itself, since Simulic does not send grades to Teams, and what to check when something doesn't open.

What you need

• A free Simulic teacher account. Students never need one.
• Your school Microsoft account with access to the class team.
• A simulation. This guide uses Weight on Other Planets, where a spring balance shows how the weight of the same mass changes from world to world.

Four ways at a glance

Way	Best for	Answers
Teams button	Posting to a class team or chat quickly	Through questions on the link
Link in an assignment	Work with a due date	Questions on the link, points entered by you in Teams
Website tab	A simulation the class returns to all unit	Questions on the link
Present mode in a meeting	Live demo for a remote or hybrid class	Students open the link from the chat

All four use the same share link, so start there.

Step 1: Create a link for the class

1. Open the simulation page and click Share.
2. On the Simulation tab, set the starting values. For this example, choose the Moon as the body and leave the mass at 2 kg. These values are pinned to the new link.
3. Go to the Share Links tab. Under New link, name the link after the team, for example "Science 6 · Team B", choose the Language and click Create link.

Create one link per team. Each link keeps its own play count and answers, and Duplicate on the link card copies the settings and the question set to a new link for the next class.

Option A: The Microsoft Teams button

1. In the link card, find Share with your class and click Microsoft Teams.
2. Microsoft's share window opens in a new tab. Sign in with your school account if asked.
3. Choose where to post, such as a channel of your class team, add a short instruction and send.

The window and its options belong to Microsoft and can change, but the result is always a post containing the play link. Students click it and the simulation opens full screen in their browser, on a laptop, a tablet or a phone.

Write the task in the post, not just the link. "Open the simulation. Find out how much a 2 kg bag of rice weighs on the Moon and on Jupiter" gets far better work than "Here's a simulation".

Option B: Add the play link to an assignment

Use an assignment when the work has a due date.

1. On the link card, click Copy link.
2. In your class team, create an assignment the way you normally do.
3. Add the play link as a link resource, and write the instructions in the assignment.
4. Assign it.

Simulic does not send scores to Teams. If the assignment carries points, enter them yourself after checking the answers on the Share page. Many teachers keep it simpler: the simulation work is a formative check, and the graded task is a short written answer handed in through the assignment.

Option C: A Website tab in the class team

A tab keeps the simulation one click away for the whole unit.

1. Copy the play link.
2. In the class team's channel, add a tab and choose Website.
3. Name the tab ("Weight lab"), paste the play link and save.

At the time of writing, Teams offers a Website tab in channels, but Microsoft changes the apps it offers from time to time. If you don't see it, post the link in the channel instead and ask students to use it from there.

Collect answers with questions on the link

Teams has no simple way to collect answers from a simulation, but the Simulic link does. On the Questions tab of the Share page, build a question set and pick it for the link under Question set. Students see the questions below the simulation, type a nickname and answer. A set for the weight lab:

• Prediction (asked before the simulation starts): "An astronaut jumps with the same take-off speed on the Moon as on Earth. How much higher does she go: about 2 times, 6 times or 36 times?" Expected answer: about 6 times, because g on Earth (9.8 m/s²) is about 6 times g on the Moon (1.62 m/s²).
• Number: "What is the weight of a 2 kg bag of rice on the Moon?" Answer 3.24, tolerance ± 0.05, unit N.
• Multiple choice: "What happens to the bag's mass on the Moon?" Correct: it stays 2 kg.
• Number: "What does the same bag weigh on Jupiter?" Answer 49.6, tolerance ± 0.5, unit N (2 × 24.79).
• Short text: "Why does the beam balance stay level on every world?"

You can add an explanation shown after each answer and allow up to two retries. The prediction keeps the simulation locked until the student commits, then appears again after the experiment so students compare.

Try the simulation the way students will see it:

With a take-off speed of 3 m/s, the astronaut rises about 0.46 m on Earth and about 2.8 m on the Moon.

Results appear on the link card, and Download CSV gives you a spreadsheet. Ask for a nickname or first name only, never full names or emails. The free plan collects 100 student answers a month. For the full workflow, see collect student answers without student accounts.

Present a simulation in a Teams meeting

For a live lesson, show the simulation yourself and let students follow on their own devices.

1. On the link card, click Present. The link opens in present mode (the play link with ?present=1 at the end), made for showing on a shared screen, with Restart and Fullscreen buttons.
2. In the Teams meeting, share your screen or just that browser window.
3. Run the demo. Ask for predictions in the meeting chat before you press anything.
4. When students should try it themselves, paste the play link in the meeting chat. Students in the room can also scan the code from Show QR code.

Present mode shows only the simulation: no questions and no prediction lock, so the demo never stalls. Students who open the normal play link get the questions. For a full routine, read teaching with a projector; it works the same over a shared screen.

Troubleshooting

Students get "This Simulic link is no longer available"

The link is turned off. Click Turn on link on the Share page. "This Simulic link has expired" means a last day was set in the Pro Options; change or clear it.

The simulation doesn't open on school devices

A web filter may block simulic.com. Ask your IT team to allow it.

The simulation looks small during a meeting

Click Fullscreen in present mode and share the whole screen rather than a window.

Answers from two classes are mixed

Both classes used the same link. Duplicate it, post the new link to the second team, and answers separate from then on.

For other platforms, see the guide to embedding a simulation in your LMS.

FAQ

Do students need a Simulic account?

No. They click the link from Teams and the simulation opens. If you attach questions, they type a nickname.

Can I embed the simulation directly in a Teams post?

No. Teams posts show the link, not an embedded frame. Use a Website tab if you want it inside Teams.

Does Simulic sync grades with Teams assignments?

No. Answers stay on the Share page and download as CSV. Enter any points in Teams yourself.

Does present mode collect answers?

No. Present mode shows only the simulation. Students answer on the normal play link.