SiteMinutes works for meetings on a video call just as well as in the room — whoever organised the call, and without anything to install in Teams or Zoom.
Plan the meeting
Create the meeting as usual (see Getting started). Type the Venue as, for example, Online · Microsoft Teams. Make sure everyone on the call is in the project's People with an e-mail address, so the minutes can be sent to them.
Record the call in Chrome or Edge
Recording another person's voice from a call needs Chrome or Edge on a computer.
- Join the call as usual.
- In SiteMinutes, press Record a meeting (or open the planned meeting and press Record this meeting).
- Before you press Start recording, tick Include call audio.
- The browser asks what to share:
- Teams, Zoom or Meet in the browser: pick the call's tab and tick Share tab audio.
- The Teams or Zoom app on Windows: pick Entire screen and tick Share system audio.
- Press Start recording. SiteMinutes now records your microphone and the other people on the call. Only the sound is recorded, not the picture.
You can turn Include call audio on before you start or while paused. If sharing stops during the meeting, a notice tells you and your microphone keeps recording.
Tell everyone the meeting is being recorded — also on a call.
On a Mac, iPhone or iPad
- Mac: use Chrome or Edge, join the call in the browser (Teams, Zoom and Meet all have a web version) and share that tab with its sound. Sharing the sound of the Teams or Zoom app is meant for Windows.
- Safari and Firefox can't share another tab's sound. Use Chrome or Edge for online meetings.
- iPhone and iPad: a browser can't record another app's call. Put the call on speaker and record with SiteMinutes on a second device, or use a computer.
The SiteMinutes app for Mac can also record the sound of a Teams, Zoom or Meet call on the Mac itself, together with your microphone — get it from the Mac App Store (opens in a new tab).
Upload the call's recording instead
Did Teams, Zoom or Meet record the call? Download the recording, then on the meeting page open Upload a recording, press Choose audio files… and Create minutes from these files. Each file can be up to 400 MB; a long video recording can be bigger, so use its audio only if you can. See Recording a meeting.
Attendance
After the call, mark the people who joined online as Online in step 1 of the Wrap up, or later under Attendance.