Run a Productive Meeting
Learning Objectives
After completing this unit, you’ll be able to:
- Explain benefits of running meetings in Slack.
- Start or schedule huddles in Slack conversations.
- Create notes and chat during huddles.
Schedule and Start a Meeting
Instead of hopping between different tools, Slack allows you to meet live with your team where you’re already working. Up to 50 people can meet at once in a Slack huddle. You can start a huddle in a conversation at a specific time for everyone to join, or copy the link to a huddle and add it to a calendar invite.
Start a Huddle
- From your desktop, open the channel where you’d like to huddle.
- Click the
headphones icon.
- Your huddle starts automatically, and members of your channel see a message in the channel with a button to join.
As people join a huddle from their computer or mobile device, they can turn their video on or keep it off. And up to two people at a time can share their screens.
Copy a Huddle link
- From your desktop, open the channel where you'd like to huddle.
- Click the
arrow next to the 
headphones icon.
- Select
Copy huddle link.
- Add the link to a calendar invite, or post a message in the channel letting your team know the meeting time along with the link.
During a Meeting
Once a huddle starts, participants can use the dedicated thread for sharing links, side conversations, and more. You can take notes right in the huddle thread, or use a canvas.
Chat in a Thread
- When the huddle starts, the thread automatically opens in the main huddle window.
- Send a message to greet people as they join, then share the agenda, links to slides, or other relevant content.
- To show or hide the thread, click the
thread icon in the bottom right corner of the huddle.
Take Notes
- Create a new canvas to keep all of your meeting notes in a separate place. Then, share the canvas in the huddle thread.
- To take notes in the channel canvas instead, click the
canvas icon in the huddle window.
- Jot down notes. Multiple people can edit a canvas at the same time, so you can have more than one notetaker if you’d like.
Standalone canvases are only available on paid Slack plans. Canvases in conversations (both channels and direct messages) are available on all plans.
After the Meeting
Once the huddle ends, the thread stays in the channel or DM (alongside the message letting people know the huddle started). If you took notes in a canvas, add it to the thread by clicking the 
thread icon or bookmark the link so it’s easy to find next time.
And that’s it! You just held your first meeting in Slack. Continue to the next unit to learn how to get a new project off the ground.