In this article, we’ll start by showing you how Geekbot — our free meeting agenda app for Microsoft Teams and Slack — can help you and your team prepare for meetings.
Specifically, you’ll learn how Geekbot lets you:
- Write down agenda preparation questions (like “What items should be on the agenda for this week’s standup?”) for each meeting.
- Decide who receives these questions and which channel their answers get broadcasted to.
- Schedule when these questions get sent.
- And more.
Then, we’ll cover four other meeting agenda apps for Microsoft Teams, so you can make a well-informed decision.
Best Microsoft Teams Agenda Apps
Note: Click here to create a free Geekbot account. All our features are free for teams with up to 10 active participants. For larger teams, pricing is $2.50 per user on the annual plan and $3.00 per user on the monthly plan.
1. Geekbot
Geekbot is our asynchronous meeting tool for Microsoft Teams and Slack. You can use it to run asynchronous standups, retrospectives, polls and surveys, and other types of remote work check-ins.
Additionally, Geekbot can also help you prepare for meetings with agenda questions that get sent to participants beforehand. In the next sections, we’ll show you exactly how this process works.
Click here to create a Geekbot account and set an agenda for your next meeting by following the steps below.
How to Prepare and Discuss Your Meeting Agendas with Geekbot
When you first start using Geekbot, you’ll see that it offers pre-made templates for daily standups, retrospectives, surveys, and other use cases.
In this case, we want to create a custom meeting agenda by clicking on the blue “Build your own” text above the templates.
From here, you can:
- Write down your agenda questions.
- Choose which teammates receive the questions in Microsoft Teams.
- Choose the Microsoft Teams channel where the responses will be posted.
Write Down Your Agenda Questions and Select Who Receives Them
With Geekbot, there’s no limit to the questions you can include, so you can cover everything relevant to the upcoming meeting.
For example, say you have a weekly Monday meeting to get everyone aligned for the week ahead. In that case, you can include questions like:
- What items should be included in the agenda for today’s weekly meeting?
- Is anyone facing challenges or blockers that another team member can help with?
- Anything we forgot to discuss or do last week?
(And any other questions that may be relevant.)
Additionally, each member of your Microsoft Teams channel is automatically synced into Geekbot. This makes it easy to select all meeting participants by typing in their names.
You can also set up Geekbot to post the answers to these questions in any Microsoft Teams channel (e.g., in the “Development” channel for weekly dev standups).
Additionally, Geekbot can also help you prepare for upcoming meetings with questions like:
- What’s the most important thing I have to discuss at today’s meeting?
- Who on the team will I need to collaborate with throughout the week?
Answering similar questions is a great way to get ready for meetings in advance, so you don’t have to think of everything you want to say on the spot.
Schedule and Send the Agenda Prep Questions
Geekbot lets you send one-off agenda questions or select a regular frequency at which questions get sent. You can choose any frequency you want:
- Every day (e.g., at 9:30 AM to prepare for the daily standup at 10:00 AM)
- Every week (e.g., at 2:00 PM each Thursday to prepare for a weekly retrospective at 3:00 PM)
- Every two weeks
- Every three weeks
- Every four weeks
- First week of the month
- Last week of the month
- Any other type of schedule you want
At the specified date and time, Geekbot notifies the selected participants that it’s time to answer the questions via a Microsoft Teams DM.
Then, Geekbot will broadcast the answers in a Microsoft Teams channel of your choosing.
The benefit of posting the agenda questions and answers in a channel is that team members can get on the same page before the meeting. Everyone on the team can add items to the agenda or provide feedback on why certain items shouldn’t be included.
Optional Follow-Up Reminders
In some cases, you (or your colleagues) may receive the agenda questions while in a flow state, client meeting, or another inconvenient situation. That’s why Geekbot also has optional reminders, which can help you remember to prepare for the meeting later, without disrupting your current task.
Again, these are completely optional, so they aren’t obtrusive or annoying.
Geekbot Is More Than a Meeting Agenda Tool
Geekbot can help you in many different situations outside of meeting preparation. As we’ve mentioned, you can use it to run asynchronous standups, retrospectives, polls, and other types of remote work check-ins.
We explore these use cases in-depth in these articles:
- Daily Remote Standups: Video Call Downsides & How to Run Better Remote Standups in Slack
- How We Use Geekbot to Manage Our Own Distributed Team from Slack
- Exact Process to Run Remote Retrospectives in Slack (Effective and Fun)
Create a Free Account
Geekbot is free for teams of 10 or fewer, and for larger teams, it’s $2.50 per active user per month (on the annual plan) and $3.00 per active user per month (on the monthly plan).
If you’re interested in trying our tool, sign up for a free account here.
2. Fellow
Fellow is an app that helps teams run productive meetings, build useful meeting agendas, record decisions, and keep each other accountable. Their Microsoft Teams integration makes it possible to collaborate on meeting agendas directly in the chat app.
Additionally, you can also use Fellow to take notes within video calls and send feedback requests.
3. Priority Matrix
Priority Matrix is a project management solution that helps teams prioritize tasks, based on the Eisenhower method framework. Their Agenda add-in integrates with Microsoft Teams to help set and collaborate on meeting agendas.
4. Decisions
Decisions is an app for Microsoft Teams and Office 365. It has a structured agenda builder, which helps you create an agenda and share it with teammates to ensure everyone’s prepared for the discussion.
Decisions also has a time tracker to keep you on track, as well as one-click meeting minutes and decision tracking for each meeting.
5. Polly
Polly is an app for capturing feedback from teammates in Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Zoom. Their meeting management templates cover a lot of use cases, including setting up agendas before meetings.
Besides that, Polly can also be used for gathering feedback after a meeting and asking attendees to rank agenda priorities.
Try Geekbot for Free
As of this writing date, Geekbot has over 170,000 satisfied users, with a 4.9/5 rating on Capterra.
Geekbot is free for teams of 10 or fewer, and for larger teams, it’s $2.50 per active user per month (on the annual plan) and $3.00 per active user per month (on the monthly plan).
If you’re interested in trying our tool, sign up for a free account here.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a free meeting agenda app for Microsoft Teams?
Geekbot (our own product) is a free tool that can help you and your team prepare a meeting agenda.